bitcrafter

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to deal with annoying co-worker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but what’s the end game supposed to be, then? Just making the same request over and over again indefinitely?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a title (Mr/Ms/Mrs) that is gender neutral?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In the sci-fi book Hyperion (which takes place hundreds of years in the future) they use this convention throughout and it works really well, so I’ve also wished that it were widely adopted in our society. (Except for androids, where the title is A. rather than M.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between communism and socialism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  OP, if you take nothing else away from this conversation, it is that different people have different notions of what exactly the word “socialism” refers to, which in practice makes it a useless word to use in the context of discussing public policy because you just end up with groups talking past each other. In the most extreme case, if someone thinks you are proposing “socialism”, then they might abruptly stop listening to what you are actually saying and assume that what you are actually proposing is to turn over the entire country to a corrupt authoritarian government because that is what the word “socialism” means to them. For this reason, should you find yourself in a discussion about public policy, it is generally better to be very specific about exactly what policies you are saying are good or bad and why you think they are good or bad without resorting to using what are in practice ambiguous and loaded terms like these. (Just to be clear, I am not saying that this state of affairs is reasonable, just that this is how it is at the moment.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between communism and socialism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You make an excellent point, sir! It’s not like this is a community geared towards answering stupid… umm… nevermind.