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  • TIL I didn’t know the meaning of normies.

    It’s not a word I use but when I saw it first, I thought it meant neurotypical, then after a while I saw it in a more political context and thought it meant centrist. Turns out, it just means mainstream. I think.

    What exactly does this word mean?


  • Or conversely, a Christian apologist coming to an atheist community and saying “if god isn’t real why do good things” as if declaring you are a poorly educated sociopath is a good way to challenge people’s well formed ideas.

    I’ve spent quite a bit of time trying to explain to some people why “woke leftists” are so quick to shut them up that they feel like they aren’t given a right to speak their minds. “Woke” ideas are generally more developed and complex than “common sense” ideas, which requires some thought being put into them while they evolve from basic to their current level, so when you challenge a person’s developed idea with a superficial, usually knee jerk level question or critique, you’re most likely engaging in a line of thinking they were done with quite early in their evolution of the idea you’re trying to challenge.





  • I’m still hung up on the association of the word “magazine” with firearms before publications.

    In the context of a discussion forum, how do you skip over the very obvious meaning unless you are looking for dogwhistles in everything.

    I am also as sensitive as any social justice conscious person to known dogwhistles, but looking for them in a conspiratorial manner is a bit too much I think.



  • CynAq@kbin.socialto/kbin meta@kbin.socialWhy "kbin"?
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    I think the name kbin, which is officially /kbin, is a play on the term /sbin, which is a system directory on unix based systems that houses binary files which require root privileges to run.

    I don’t know how @ernest got from /sbin to /kbin though. Maybe he told the story somewhere but I haven’t seen it.