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"he died" describes an action

"he was dead" describes a condition / state / quality

I'd abandon the growth mindset as actively hostile to both society and the environment and instead focus on quality, efficiency, and sustainability.

The best defense is avoidance. To that end, a personal time-travel / prognostication device that could both predict danger and chronoport you back to before danger was imminent would be the ultimate defense, though suppose not strictly a "weapon".

"Wrong" can mean so many things.

Removing misinformation isn't censorship, for example. Similar with removing off-topic threads or comments.

Removing illegal content is censorship if the law is unjust (eg. political dissent restrictions) but not if the law is just (eg. CSAM removal).

Removing immoral content is way dicier, because morality is not fully mapped, and what one person thinks is immoral might seem perfectly moral to another (eg. blasphemy or profane language). I personally would not removed content I found immoral unless it violated community standards, and would consider such removals an overreach but not censorship unless it was selectively targeted at an individual or group.

I guess by my lights to be censorship it has to be:

• subjective
• unjust
• systematic

Removing something objectively incorrect or in the wrong place is not censorship. Removing something justly proscribed is not censorship.

Removing a thread when one viewpoint or group posts about it but not when another posts about it IS censorship.

"The buck stops here."

I feel like music, film, comedy, visual art, literature, all just keep getting better and better. I haven't seen anything I'd call a "peak".

Are... are there people who think of that time as a cultural peak?

If that's the bar, then yeah, we've had at least one since then and are due for another soon.

My most likely cause of death is the same as most men my age:

Falling off a ladder.

Kids see you reading an e-book, they don't know what you're doing, they just see you staring at s phone.

Kids see you reading a physical book, they see you're reading, and what you're reading. It helps foster a love of reading in them.

Income tax? No.

Sales tax? Yes.

milk and pastrami

They're for my kids, not for me.

Any bike rental that's not a flat fee is a ripoff.

If I have access to free food, I eat it. Doesn't matter if I'm hungry, as long as I physically can I will.

I was only broke and homeless for a little over a year, and now I always know wherey next meal is coming from, but I can't seem to shake the mindset of that low point in my life.

It got swept up in what it was doing.

I haven't had that problem here, ever.

My bestie married at sixteen. It was an elopement, though, they never got engaged.

Like most things by Philip K. Dick, the man who has more movies based on his writing than any other author?

It's not new vs. old. Like many loanwords (hummus, shwarma) there was never one standard English spelling, but multiple phonetic transliterations.

It's just that one looks like an adult wrote it and one looks like a child did. It happens that Heinz, when their "57" brand became popular, used the latter spelling, and that spelling became popular along with it. Other brands used different spelling.

The feet ones or the butt ones?

a living language

Yes

do you ever phonetically say boatswain instead of bosun?

I never have occasion to say either.

How do you pronounce Worcestershire sauce?

Wursht-uh-shur

How do you feel about onomatopoeias in general?

Love 'em. My current favorite is "shakshuka".

are onomatopoeias even words to you?

yeah, by definition

insisting on the old spelling becomes more ridiculous than going with the newer

Given the choice between looking ridiculous to others and feeling ridiculous to myself, I will always choose the former.

can you bring yourself to use a squeeze bottle for it or are you still tapping that 57

They're not mutually exclusive. I also use packets and those giant pump containers.

convince me otherwise about vernacular and spelling

I'm not interested in convincing you away from a position with which I agree almost completely. Words change, language evolves, slang becomes informal speech becomes recognized usage. Some changes are improvements, some are not, but neither you or I have much hope of shifting the tide either way. While my time lasts, though, I'll keep spelling the vinegary condiment as "catsup" and the pastry as "doughnut" and the cultured dairy as "yoghurt".