SreudianFlip

@SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiger Predators⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eating a tiger liver would probably kill you with Vitamin A poisoning, particularly painful.

  Easy to just avoid eating entirely, even if the rest of it is safe enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cuttlefish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, and if anyone wanted to dive into the cuttlefish rabbit hole, er, den, 10/10 would recommend any reading or documentary about them. Astonishing visual communication and camouflage, curiosity, problem solving, and more weird biology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cuttlefish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NOT FISH despite the name. Cephalopods are molluscs like snails! They are pretty smart and can have somewhat elaborate mating routines, and most species are somewhat careful about sperm sac delivery AFAIK. Lonely prisoners are not good behaviour models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes up a word⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually remain unconvinced by the non-scholarly sources people are providing, authoritatively claiming etymology on scant evidence, and believe they are relying on the self-reported motives of Maverick.

  ‘Gook’ is only generally used as a slur, and other uses are obsolete by a century or extremely regional and rare. In 1944 the slur was the predominant usage, particularly around Maverick.

  Do you have a more authoritative source?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes up a word⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, good point, even though everyone in the US military at the time was using it to dehumanize the enemy and a military guy coined the term, I got caught up in etymology, and really it’s usage that matters.

  For a while, particularly in my youth in western Canada, the racist connotations were upfront and emphasized for added contempt.

  I think ignoring that historical usage is a mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes up a word⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, gobble is turkey sounds. Where, in those sources, does the etymology of the rest of the word get examined?

  Nowhere, except by ‘elephant in the room’ inference: “first used by Texas politician Maury Maverick (1895-1954), … chairman of U.S. Smaller War Plants Corporation during World War II”

  Hmm.

  “so prevalent was the use of the word gook during the first few months of the war that U.S. General Douglas MacArthur banned its use, for fear that Asians would become alienated to the United Nations Command because of the insult.” [wikipedia]

  Hmmmmmm.

  “In modern U.S. usage, “gook” refers particularly to communist soldiers during the Vietnam War and has also been used towards all Vietnamese and at other times to all Southeast Asians in general. It is considered to be highly offensive.” [wikipedia]

  It’s not complicated or obscure. No need to whitewash this. Anyone early genX or older will remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes up a word⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  May I just point out the elephant in the room?

  “Gook” is a nasty slur for asian person. This word literally means ‘unintelligible like the nonsense languages of asians’

  Let’s just let this word fade away like so many other bullshit slurs, thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crossbow murders: Police find suspect after BBC’s John Hunt’s family killed — as it happened⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Ex-girlfriend” … I think you can put a hypothesis together.