The first rule of therapy club is that you talk about therapy club.

A true grammar Nazi would obviously know that it is a proper contraction. No true Scotsman and all that ;P

He even called it “Alumium” before that, which I think is even better

Not sure if you actually meant logarithmic or exponential. An exponential tax rate would mean that the more you own the next unit of value would be a lot more in tax, while a logarithmic tax rate would mean that the more you own the next unit of value would be a lot less in tax. See x² versus log₂(x) (or any logarithm base, really). The exponential (x²) would start slow and then increase fast, and the logarithmic one would start increasing fast and then go into increasing slowly.

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/7l1turktmc

Do we not use our PC as a heater to kill two birds with one stone?

As far as I know the OED is a very specific dictionary that’s way beyond what most people need and mostly for people dealing with language in their work. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/ would be the more personal variant from what I’ve heard.

*hoarding

Which Jordan did he take some idea from? And is Jordan the first or last name?

No thanks, that sounds like work.

Except it doesn’t specify that you go back in time to when you were 6 years old, but that you “restart your life at 6 years of age” so a fairly reasonable interpretation would be that you’ll be a 6 year old in 2024. Monkeys paw and all that.

Now, I personally think it’s more interesting if it did mean that you went back in time.

It doesn’t say you go back in time to being six years old, you start over as a six year old. A six year old in 2024.

Hashtag monkeys paw.

for the tech illiterate (me)?

;P

I disagree that we shouldn’t constrain the use of words to their definitions. It’s what helps make the meaning of sentences the most clear for everyone. If people had actually done that then the definition of “literally” wouldn’t include “figuratively” and a lot of misunderstandings could be avoided.

Otherwise we could end up with people saying that when they wrote “all white people deserve to die” what they actually meant was that they deserve to live, since that’s how they use the word “die”. It’s nonsensical to me.

It’s basically the “code” (markup, really) for showing the word “password” on a web page.

The situation they created was to kill one person, versus the situation that existed was that 5 people would die.

The difference is between action and inaction and the fact that it’s easier to say “you caused something” if you took some action than if you simply didn’t take an action.

We just need a proper solar flare to help us get back on track

I think that one may have more than two edges XD

Interestingly enough, in old English you had “werman” and “wifman” for man and woman respectively, in which case referring to all with “mankind” makes perfect sense. So the originator for mankind seems more likely to be from that than the explanation that it’s a shortening of “humankind” to me.

Merriam-Webster would like to disagree with your assertion that it is not “non-gendered”

Thanks to @Mobilityfuture@lemmy.world for the link in https://lemmy.ml/comment/7077751 (I don’t know if I could make that link in a better way)

How cross does he have to be?