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The only way to pop a hmm boner is to apply tunnel vision to only view the situation in the context of Physics, completely ignoring or dismissing linguistics which is applying a word to describe the effects by a laymen.
A star bends light
A blackhole captures light
A planet maybe wobbles
So applying a term sucks in is completely valid, linguistically.
Then some dyslexic comes along to correct us. There is always these patronizing caunts. Do we really need to be reminded that black holes and gravity are correlated?!
urbandictionary comes along and another term is born, poking fun at these robotic patronizers
Captain Obviousthe space between his ears is not a vacuum, it's this or that gaddaingit!Saw a clip of ol Neil coming along and saying that Mount Everest wasn't the highest point on Earth to a physicist because of the equatorial bulge and "sea level" not mattering to physicists.
Yeah sure just blatantly disregard the entire human perspective of the world and how we as people relate to it to say make up some dumb "gotcha haha" to sound smart.
So many people, him specifically, are incapable of framing things in a non dismissive way. It could have been an interesting point or piece of information about how how large the equatorial bulge is, but he'd rather come off as an insufferable nerd.
If the topic was about equatorial bulge, and it got into the various algorithms to calculate the distance between two points on our planet, might have been in danger of having are really good discussion.
But the semantics on black holes vs other celestial objects?! Nah ... that's just silly nonsense. Like discussing the weather or the colour of the sky.
The test is, at any point are we in danger of learning something useful? And if not, the OP is just blowing air up our bums.
Maybe chill with the ableism. You can call a removed a removed without bringing disability into it.
I think you're referring to the gardening implement, but Hexbear did a funny to your comment:
Have no idea what that comment was supposed to mean.
Looks like a word salad. I took it positively; he was just making a joke. And let it be.
What's confusing about being told to chill it with the ableism? You used dyslexic as a slur.
Edit: and then misspelt another slur
Assumes i know what ableism means. It means nothing to me. This is the truth. I could look it up, but it just looks like, lingoism. Just making up yet another bs term, that supposed to just learn about then there is 20 more terms and those need to be learned. It's a never ending loop of lingoism.
I have other interests. On github everyday, there is not enough time in the day. What my interests are actually matter when deciding what to put time into.
If this was my thing, i wouldn't dismiss it.
Censoring my speech, i'm also not really interested in. So i'll say some shiat and people will fake being offended and i'll fake caring that they are offended. Words will be exchanged and life will go on.
rinse wash and repeat