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- Comment on Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech? 1 day ago:
I don’t have an exact match to what your looking for, but a couple things come to mind.
Having “selective hearing” is when someone fails to recognize that someone (usually a partner or a parent) is speaking to them or fails to comprehend what was said, but is otherwise sufficiently capable of holding a conversation.
The implication is that they are able (or choose) to ignore questions and requests when they don’t wish to answer or undertake them.
“Willful ignorance” or “being willfully ignorant” is when someone refuses to engage in understanding something when given the opportunity or discounts arguments that challenge their presuppositions.
This isn’t exclusive to verbal communication but it does imply they are some sort of discourse that they are choosing to ignore.
- Comment on Don't act confused. Just say it 3 days ago:
A pretty peony.
- Comment on Zero Chull 3 days ago:
Is it about all the maga twitter accounts having foreign origins. Or am I missing something else.
- Comment on This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important 5 days ago:
Counterpoint to 1: Your microbiome is massive. You are constantly emitting bacteria. It surrounds you in a cloud like Pig Pen from the Peanuts comics. The reason you have different bacteria on your face and balls is not because they can’t get from one place to the other; it is because they can’t survive/compete there.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 6 days ago:
On the package? Yes.
At a restaurant? Not usually. - Comment on The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? 1 week ago:
- Comment on It's always been women in STEM. 1 week ago:
I mean…. It does and it doesn’t. Yes, al-Qarawiyyin was founded as a mosque. Yes, it became a “university” within the last 100 years. But there was a looong span of time between where it was an institution of higher learning not formally classified as a “university”
Paragraph 4 of the article you linked specifically notes that such institutions with mixed provenance were omitted from the list.
Ancient higher-learning institutions, such as those of … the Islamic world, are not included in this list owing to their cultural, historical, structural and legal differences from the medieval European university… These include the University of al-Qarawiyyin… founded as mosques in 859… These developed associated madrasas… by 1129 for al-Qarawiyyin…
Basically it is the oldest educational institution that is currently a university, as opposed to the institution having operated under the university model for the longest time.
- Comment on Halo Infinite's Last Update Arrives This Month As Devs Move To Other Halo Projects 2 weeks ago:
More like Halo Finite, amiright?
- Comment on Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land? 3 weeks ago:
I did not intend to imply that it did. That’s why I said “one other nation” apart from the kingdom, since the nation of Wales was incorporated into the Kingdom at the time.
I suppose with “until the two nations joined” I did accidentally classify the Kingdom of England as a single nation. My sincerest apologies. I have corrected the error.
- Comment on Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land? 3 weeks ago:
Don’t blame me. Blame the English. I looked it up before posting: the Kingdom of England had annexed Wales by 1536.
- Comment on Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land? 3 weeks ago:
The word goes back to at least 1580 and at the time, and for a good while thereafter, the most prominent speakers of the English language lived in a kingdom on a small island in Northern Europe that they shared with only one other nation until those two nations joined into one. So for a good chunk of history and during the development of modern English, most travel between “home” and a foreign land required going over seas. Thus “overseas” took on a meaning of foreigness or awayness.
- Comment on A brick a day keeps the pigs away. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on #environmentalist 5 weeks ago:
Don’t get me wrong. I love me a nuanced conversation about the intersections of sustainability and accessibility. If you want to, we can have that.
But this is a shitpost community. Posts here aren’t really expected to conform to reality, let alone provide exhaustive coverage of all corner cases. This stupid shitpost also neglects to consider folks who need to have fluids introduced intravenously and the plastic waste created by single use saline bags, or the material/lifetime of the cup in which a straw is used. This is a dumb meme about the choices that some people make with the options that they have. It is not an indictment against the people to which those options may not be available.
- Comment on eco-vengeance iconoclast 1 month ago:
Javelina?
I don’t even know Alina!
- Comment on purrfect costume 1 month ago:
I’ll let you in on a little secret: I had to look up the name.
- Comment on purrfect costume 1 month ago:
I immediately thought T’Ana
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 1 month ago:
Yes.
It’s shower_thoughts_ not shower_posts_
- Comment on Which one and why? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Which one and why? 1 month ago:
And the front of it.
- Comment on Harsh 1 month ago:
I have a feeling we would have a lot of problems if you did though.
- Comment on Salmon 1 month ago:
Do you not?
- Comment on What is up with Gen Alphas love for Austin Powers? 1 month ago:
Where were you when you heard that the president was shot?
Where were you when you heard that the towers fell?
Where were you when you heard someone shout “Geht en mah bel-ley!” for the first time?
These are the questions that shaped generations.
- Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly? 2 months ago:
Which is worse? Getting hit with bird poop while standing still, or while riding a motorcycle down the highway?
- Comment on don't wipe off your humanity, now 2 months ago:
Shoutout to the The Besties Podcast who created this merch
P.S. I’m not affiliated with them in any way. Just a listener and Patreon supporter.
- Comment on here there be lions 2 months ago:
“I’m an Alpha male”
Ah, you’re so stressed, scared and disconnected from your community that you resort to intimidation and violence in some desperate grasp at self respect?
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- Comment on Went to r/conservative to see how they're doing 1 year ago:
Looks like ![walkaway] (https://i.imgur.com/qhJSBYn.jpeg) has given up the pretense of being moderates displeased with the Democratic Party.
- Comment on Technically Correct 1 year ago:
I believe the rule limits the actual container size if it contains liquid. Even if you have a nearly empty water bottle or are nursing the last dregs of a full size tube of toothpaste, it gets dumped or thrown out. So technically, if any water has melted at all, it counts.
- Comment on Aluminum 1 year ago:
Don’t get me started on titanium! 🙄
- Comment on Noise 1 year ago:
That explains why my fuzzy terrorist always wants to bite them.
