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Cake day: March 26th, 2021

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  • I unironically love Latinisation (and Greekification).

    “Crabification” would have worked just fine to express this idea, but “carcinisation” sounds so scientific and erudite.

    People dog on English, but I think it’s really cool how we have other ancient source languages to pull from to coin “smart” words when needed. And when you dig into the etymology of the “fancy” word, it adds texture, layers, history, and extra context to the whole thing.

    Ok, that was a tangent. Carry on.




  • My comment was deleted for being too hardcore I guess (even though it got upvotes, so at least someone agrees with me). But I spoke zero lies and I 100% stand by what I said.

    Regardless, I’ll rephrase in a gentler way: empathy is wasted on these people. They are effectively irredeemable.

    I say we dispense with empathy. Casting pearls before swine, and all that.

    If we wish to defeat Fascism, we cannot be gentle.

    Our grandfathers who defeated Fascism in Europe didn’t do it by being understanding and forgiving. Allied soldiers dragged German citizens to the concentration camps and made them look at it.

    Sometimes shaming is exactly what you need to do.