Are you saying that the meanings of words exist prior to those words?

in what way is calling water wet laziness or cognitive ambivalence? it’s not like wetness is something that just exists in the world prior to our construction of it

at least for blood is thicker the “full version” is actually most likely newer than the one you’re complaining about. it’s almost as though people use language to say what they want to say. nothing anti-intellectual about that

2019?

Paris honestly has never struck me as the nicest city, but it’s really big and it really feels like there’s an unlimited amount of stuff to do there so I wouldn’t mind going back.

I also found Avignon to be really nice and very pretty (at least in the historic centre which I didn’t really end up leaving since I was only there a short time).

Strasbourg was also quite nice and I actually thought about studying there for university (obviously my main reason for considering it was related to the university and programme, but my impression of the city was definitely a factor).

Haven’t really been too many places outside of France, but I was in Utrecht for a few hours (which idk if even really counts as ‘travelling to’ and it definitely felt like someplace I’d like to return to and it felt a bit more chill compared to Amsterdam which seemed a bit more chaotic.

I liked to check in on r/popheads from time to time on reddit because I’m into pop music, and there’s /c/popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech, which doesn’t seem to have that many users so I’d like to see that grow

Tbf Reddit was AGP too, real trutranners don’t know what a computer is

YTA tran bad

I find there is a tragic lack of transgendercirclejerk here

Strongly agree. Mastodon is alright and I use it a little, but the twitter-type format never really worked for me. I feel like when I have to follow individual people I usually end up either following no one or being forced to follow people who post things that interest me sometimes but a lot of the time post things that really don’t. Following particular topics or threads just seems much more natural to me; I can look at exactly what interests me and nothing more.

Does that really make it totally apolitical though?. Like obviously it’s not inherently attached to a wide reaching political ideology, but it still is political in the same way that any free software is kind of political.

Devs don’t get paid less just because I pirated a game I would never have bought otherwise

Phone bad.

Like they’re objectively pretty useful but I find the experience of using one to just kinda suck and I avoid it as much as I can. I’d much much rather use a laptop or ideally my desktop if that’s at all possible. No idea how some people manage so much time using their phones