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Me: The Earth is round.

Them: Several seemingly legitimate paragraphs, patiently explaining that it’s flat.

Me: …

Someone else brought up the term “neoliberal” and I might have gone along with that. A prefix can do a lot of heavy lifting in allowing the rest of a word to mean something else entirely, even opposing the original meaning.

What I’m gathering is that economists have redefined the original word, and what I think of as liberal, they call progressive.

Aldrin is a staunch Republican. He was going to vote GOP no matter what. To that end, he’d say anything to get them into the White House.

That said, he might have truly believed that Biden (who hadn’t yet stepped down) wasn’t any of those things.

If what you’re saying is true, it doesn’t explain why the greatest increase in capitalism has historically occurred under governments that were not liberal (by the dictionary definition. Or my simplistic one.)

Unless, that is, that what you’re saying is that all the pro-capitalist governments were liberal by your definition (or some redefinition to which you and certain others believe is, or should be, correct). That, I think, is a ridiculous way to go about things, and smacks of trying to steal the word or besmirch people who would otherwise use that word to describe themselves.

In short, I think you’re being disingenuous.

The belief that no-one is above anyone else and that everyone should be treated equally. The doesn’t quite match with the dictionary definition, I grant you (I looked it up afterwards), but nonetheless I think I was nearer the mark than “capitalist = liberal”.

Capitalists tend to think of themselves as more deserving than others which would seem to be at odds with that supposed equivalence.

And there’s that the biggest capitalist booms of recent years have been driven by illiberal politics, by and large. Reagan wasn’t a liberal. Thatcher wasn’t. Today’s billionaires are stumbling over themselves to swear fealty to distinctly non-liberal political parties, in power or not.

Wait, what? Liberals are the capitalists now? Or is it that Liberals aren’t doing anything/enough to reign in the capitalists?

As someone who is firmly in the greybeard mould, I ain’t shaving my legs for this.

Keep going. We may be homing in on how the number order was derived for a dartboard.

The nasal infix for present or very recent actions which was a feature in Proto-Indo-European. Best example is how vicit becomes vincit in Latin. (You’ll recognise the first one from “veni vidi vici” and the second from “invincible”. Both have to do with conquering. Or not being.)

It might also be the root of the word “now” in English, but the evidence for that is scant at best and it’s not in the Wikipedia article. Ditto the n in “recent”, which would be pre-PIE if true.

Also Linux kernel version history and smear frame to double check what I was talking about in recent Fediverse comments.

Relevant Sarah Andersen comic

Someone needs to yarn-bomb this thing. Perhaps something like a headband that falls to googly-eye level maybe. Perhaps, you know, with eyes on it.

Either way, I’d be tempted to put up a sign next to it that says “Help! I’ve gone blind!”

My weakest gums are weak precisely because I floss there more often.

Those locations happen to be where there’s a natural gap between teeth, they’re the first place food gets stuck and the first place I have to take a toothpick or floss to. Gentle as I am, that still takes a toll on the gum between them.

There’s also been a feedback loop of food getting stuck there making those gaps wider over time, meaning larger food getting stuck and more flossing. Over the course of a few decades, tiny movements add up.

The dentists I’ve seen are clueless what to suggest; suggesting I floss less would make their heads explode.

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