I want to take back ‘Retard’. Because I want it to apply to things that are infuriatingly stupid, instead of it being used as a derogatory term towards special needs people.
Closed.
A valve is closed if it doesn’t allow water to travel through it. The circuit is closed if it allows electricity to travel through it. Some valves you have to close the circuit to close the valve, some valves you have to open the circuit to close the valve.
Can we just use closed only for circuits and make valves use a different word?
So I think there’s a bit of crossing of wires (pun maybe intended) when it comes understanding both concepts. For water a valve acts as a door, open doors let things through, closed doors block things from moving.
For circuits, I believe closed comes from a more mathematical thing where closed more means without holes/gaps. So the circuit is open when there is a gap in the circuit as a whole.
I think the real confusion occurs when in high school physics classes there is a segment about flowing water in preparation for the next chapter on electricity and circuits.
I find the real confusion when multiple people are designing a chemical factory. Those are dampers so they the circuit is closed to close the valve, those are for the pump so the circuit is closed to open.
Yeah that’s a good point.
how bout “nopen”
Closen’t
Inflammable should probably be reclaimed for public safety reasons.But it puts things in flames
Everything is flamable if you heat it up enough.
I’d redefine “woke” as “I’m going to blame this all on you, but really it’s me. Your issue doesn’t affect me directly, but I don’t like it and I can’t explain why, I can’t even explain it to myself. But I don’t want to discuss it or understand you. I just want to shut down this conversation because it might expose my lack of thinking past my own nose and empathy, because ughhhhh empathy.”
Gay… I’m old enough to remember when it just meant happy… We even had to change a friend’s nickname when the usage changed … His name is Ben, and we called him Bengay at first (like the muscle rub) which shortened to Gay… We would literally refer to him as Gay and call him that in public with no problem… Then things changed and we couldn’t call him that anymore. I’d like Gay back
I had a friend in kindergarten, his older brother was named Guy.
Iirc, he was gay.
Lol
Born in the fifties? You must have seen a lot more than that change
1961 and yes, but you don’t want me to list all the changes I’ve seen lol, that would be a few books, I just answered the question about a word change I’d like back, first one that came to mind, and now you are trying to provoke me into a boomer rant
You could do an ama. I remember on Reddit back when AMAs were with ordinary people.
ABA - Ask Boomer Anything
Like what was it like to have no contact with anyone while you drove your car home, and then you get home to check your answering machine to see if anybody tried to contact you
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Unfortunately its even earlier meaning still has confections to describing special needs people in formal medical terms. In that retard = slow, retarded = slowed. And of course the other meaning like flame retardant, to slow fire from spreading.
But you’re right that it shouldn’t be a slur.
insurrectionist
Bohunk. I hate that it’s a slur for some folk, but it is the perfect term for whatever this hyper-masculine cringefest is we got goin’ on. Alpha male chest beaters stinkin’ up the place. Those damned bohunks.
Never heard that term before.
Most of us still use it that way. We took it back already. Join us.
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A lot of people…?
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to add to that, think of the following: why do a lot of people understand the word “you” as the standard neutral second-person pronoun for the english lexicon? why do a lot of people understand “selfie” as the main word to refer to a self-portrait photo typically made with a device held by the same person who’s featured in the portrait?
now explain each case of why should or shouldn’t be that easy to take either word and morph its meaning into being for example, “the instance of a person in a fruit costume hanging out inside a fruit basket”.
what i mean is, @[email protected] is completely missing the premise of this question.
Yep, you’re free to use any word you want to mean anything you want.
As are people to react to your words in any way they want.
That’s what the comment you replying to was saying as well!
I just hate that I can’t refer to a bundle of sticks properly anymore without being called a homophobe!
A you mean a fasces?
That has an axe in with it.
Used to mean something else in the world of machinery and auto mechanics. Old school stuff. There is a screw that holds the distributor cap in place. A mechanic would loosen that screw and rotate the whole distributor cap very slightly, maybe 5° or so, the thing is round, so that’s a really small portion of a circle. So one could turn it clockwise or counterclockwise to advance or retard the timing.
I have a project car I’m working on, and the distributor timing was so far advanced that the engine would barely run, even when the adjustment was at full retard. I took the distributor out and re-installed it one gear tooth retarded, and now I can set the timing correctly.
I couldn’t have told this story on reddit, my comment would have been removed.
That’s stupid.
Thanks for your input.
Evidence is in Lemmy still needs /s.
And that usage is still fine and actively used in those kinds of industries. But OP is just being edgy.
Aviation as well - procedures might say to “retard the throttle”
Trump
Some dingus made using that word a lot less desirable
Republican Bridge Trump Order: ◇ ♡ ♧ ♤.
The same thing happened to “Republican.” Unlike how the Democrat party changed, “Republican” has a meaning that predates the US party. The core planks of the modern Republican party have nothing in relation with the historic meaning of the word.
While I’ve never been a Republican, there was a time when the word meant a philosophy I could respect (if not agree with). Now, it just means vile, horrible people with a horrific agenda.
Honestly, how far back? Republicans have been evil for many decades now. I can think back to Reagan as the beginning of destroying America but it probably goes back even further.
Much further back… Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. The party was founded on anti- slavery. The current party has nothing to do with the original party.
Roguelike.
Elaborate.
You mean for computer games or people?
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