hakase

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[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Cuz he's an obnoxious, blatantly incendiary grifter (but he's a grifter who shits on the people we don't like, so we gotta stan him here because tribalism!).

[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Civil War happened in 06-07 in the comics, so pretty close to that era.

[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unless you’re suggesting that this man was involved in that situation, there’s room to feel sympathy for both murder victims.

This cop is either one of the ones committing atrocities, or one of the ones that stand by, hold the "thin blue line", and enable the ones committing atrocities.

ACAB has no exceptions.

[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There hasn't been a need for a new Civ since IV so I already wasn't gonna buy it, but now I'm gonna not buy it even harder.

[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

As Upton himself said: "I aimed for America's heart, but I hit it in its stomach."

[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Great question! The answer is that, well, you don't, but that's not what I'm intending unstained to mean here.

As it turns out, "unstained" is structurally ambiguous, because English has two different "un-" prefixes, each of which has different functions and different category selection requirements.

The first attaches to verbs, and means "reverse the action of", e.g. un-tie, un-do, un-stain, etc. The second attaches to adjectives, and means "not X", e.g. un-happy, un-satisfied, etc.

So, if we want to form the word "undoable", we can either take the verb "do" and attach "-able" first, giving us an adjective "doable" to which we can then add "un-" to give us "undoable", an adjective meaning "not able to be done" ("Flying by flapping your arms is undoable")
OR
We can take "do" and add the other "un-" first, giving us a verb "undo" meaning "to reverse the action of something" to which we can then add the suffix "-able", giving us "undoable", a different adjective meaning "able to be undone" ("Simple knots are easily undoable")

So, while both of these look and sound like the same word, they actually have different structures that correspond to the differences in their meanings.

In my OP, you read "unstained" as "unstain-ed", with "un-" attaching to "stain" to give a verb "unstain" meaning "to reverse the staining of", and then added the participle suffix, while my intended structure was to attach "stain" and "-ed" first, giving a participle (adjective) "stained", to which we can then add the other prefix "un-", giving "un-stained" "not stained".

[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This would be more like un-stained glass than stained glass.

[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Hawaii has wild cattle that you can hunt. Not native, but still quite wild, and very dangerous.

[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 weeks ago

More like those Ancestral Archers down in Siofra. They're hitting me with railguns travelling at Mach 12 from halfway across the map.

[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think blue and red are supposed to be "Profit" and "Loss", not revenues and costs, since I'm pretty sure all Olympics have both revenues and costs. Also, the Y-axis is already labeled deficit and surplus, so why not just use those instead of conflicting, misleading terms?

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