@reb We've come full circle. "ly" At the end of adverbs and adjectives was originally the old English form of "like." So slow-like, burl-like, plain-like, etc became slowly, burly, and plainly.
@theynege he's been raised by my uncle as a single dad, and my uncle is, to be slightly unkind, is a bit of a shithead. I don't think he's representative of the whole generation. I hope not anyway.
Don't get me wrong, I like my uncle, but he warned me today "there's a woke army waiting to pounce"
@theynege I think fundamentally he means well, he just suffers from small town ignorance. Most of what he knows of the wider world has been fed to him through facebook.
There is, yes, definitely a reason I don't ever talk to him if I can help it
@reb @theynege I've recently been learning to tell the difference between small town nonwillful ignorance (which I'm very forgiving of) and authoritarianism as a value (even if unconscious). My recent reassessment of my own mother calibrated my spidy-senses to a hair trigger. It's a spectrum.
But I don't know your uncle, and I don't want to presume too much. Leaning in to bad-talk nerds (of all people, in 2024) is the red flag for me.
@theynege who knows. Adjusted for inflation my income is higher than my dad's at my age, he was an electronics engineer with a degree (later a service engineer for industrial machinery) and is currently higher than my mum's and she's a manager. So there's obviously some level of mobility still, and I'm definitely not doing anything unethical
@reb That's good to hear. I've been out of the industry 15 years, but I knew plenty of self-made millionaires (or close) in the geek community back then. I've gotten the idea it's harder to be in the right place and time, less low-hanging fruit, more exploitation.
I don't know if I'll ever be a millionaire, I'm certainly a ways off right now, and it's not really my goal. I think I could do it pretty quickly and easily if I actually wanted it, but I just want a pleasant life you know? My bank account seems to be porous, cash never hangs around. On some level I do find it very funny that I make a decent living yet still often find myself significantly short of being able to order a curry. (I do have savings, tho)
the way I see it, I'm actually happier than the millionaires I know (I don't know that many, but still more than I'd really expect given the way I often see myself) so I've actually Won The Game
@reb And I find it interesting that our generations have invented a needed indicator of not being 100% certain or accurate about anything, to reflect a relatively new societal value of authenticity.
I'm not going to commit to being happy, but I'm "like" happy, ya know?
Robin (self-care arc)
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in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden • • •it doesn't necessarily work for how "like" is used in some Scottish dialects, for example "he was pure raging, like"
Is like even a word
What is that?? "Like"???
They've played us for fools.
Language is not real.
Millions deceived.
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in reply to Robin (self-care arc) • • •wait
Does likely mean
Like like
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in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden • • •this has destroyed my sense of objective reality, this is all just far too silly.
Weebly wobbly woo
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in reply to Robin (self-care arc) • • •@reb Don't get me started on the suffix "-ard" (one who does or is a thing) and how we've bet recently reinvented it, only now it's "-ass."
(Wizard = wiseass)
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in reply to Robin (self-care arc) • • •@reb lol it doesn't go that direction.
The buzz in buzzard apparently goes back to Latin, but probably they used the -ard to show disdain.
etymonline.com/word/buzzard#et…
buzzard | Etymology of buzzard by etymonline
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in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden • • •@theynege he's been raised by my uncle as a single dad, and my uncle is, to be slightly unkind, is a bit of a shithead. I don't think he's representative of the whole generation. I hope not anyway.
Don't get me wrong, I like my uncle, but he warned me today "there's a woke army waiting to pounce"
Mx. Luna Corbden
in reply to Robin (self-care arc) • • •@reb @theynege Whew, there's a relief.
And your uncle seems like not a very good person. 😔
Robin (self-care arc)
in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden • • •@theynege I think fundamentally he means well, he just suffers from small town ignorance. Most of what he knows of the wider world has been fed to him through facebook.
There is, yes, definitely a reason I don't ever talk to him if I can help it
Mx. Luna Corbden
in reply to Robin (self-care arc) • • •@reb @theynege I've recently been learning to tell the difference between small town nonwillful ignorance (which I'm very forgiving of) and authoritarianism as a value (even if unconscious). My recent reassessment of my own mother calibrated my spidy-senses to a hair trigger. It's a spectrum.
But I don't know your uncle, and I don't want to presume too much. Leaning in to bad-talk nerds (of all people, in 2024) is the red flag for me.
Robin (self-care arc)
in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden • • •@theynege oh the bad talking of nerds was my cousin
My uncles take on nerds is that it's a good way to get rich, which is a different kind of... uhhhh
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in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden • • •the way I see it, I'm actually happier than the millionaires I know (I don't know that many, but still more than I'd really expect given the way I often see myself) so I've actually Won The Game
(Until the bipolar does the Big Sad thing)
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in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden • • •@reb And I find it interesting that our generations have invented a needed indicator of not being 100% certain or accurate about anything, to reflect a relatively new societal value of authenticity.
I'm not going to commit to being happy, but I'm "like" happy, ya know?
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