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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
I know this is probably a repost but the self-censorship is super annoying and has entered the lexicon in ways that can permanently damage human communication as a whole.
Yeah sure censor stuff from kid shows but we're at the point where "unalive" and "pdf file" are being used as code words. Everyone knows what they mean, even the censors.
100% agree, we live in a 1984 age.
Also, using stupid words such as unalive doesn't make any sense because the algorithm of social media companies knows exactly what it means.
Its coming from Tiktok. Bytedance has heavy word censorship and if one of your comments or videos was flagged as inappropriate and had one of those words your account would be automatically suspended for review.
So a lot of normal westerm words got flagged. Kill. Dead. Any word related to sex. Hole. (Lol) basically every curse word.
Then there are gray words like Pedophile where people think it changes the algorithm to show your videos less if they contain them, but no one has any proof from what I can tell.
It's annoying that its driven by ad revenues, and made more dumb by the fact that if everyone can decode it, then they're still advertising over sex and violence. So the whole endeavor is pointless.
But I don't think it will cause any harm. Humans have been using slang, code, and memetic language to obscure meaning from others and identify their in-crowds since the dawn of human language. Some of it is dumber than others, but it won't cause any harm.
It's also extremely weird because people often just default to the "hidden meaning" completely ignoring context. There were so many instances where I was being shouted at for writing "CP" on the Cyberpunk subreddit, it was just weird...
I have a simple flowchart to determine what is or isn't a veggie:
> Can I eat it? -> Yes -> Does it come from an animal? -> No = Vegetable
Sand has a lot of minerals in it. Probably the healthiest veggie of them all!
That’s why they call you the bread man.
I mostly agree, but there's a few holes in that flowchart:
My favorite vegetables are salt and ice.
Rocks are vegetables nodnod
Gushers are vegetables, got it.
VEGETABLES DO NOT EXIST
In terms of botany, a vegetable isn't a thing (it's a culinary term).
Whereas a fruit has a specific botanical term (and a culinary term).
Not everything is "one or the other", some things are neither (Rhubarb), and some are both (tomato).
You can't say "both" when there are three choices
Youre absolutely correct
It's the difference between the culinary use of the word and the biological use of the word. I thought we already figured that out?
Still a fun observation in relation to mushrooms.
fucking fucking
The thing is too that mushrooms don't even cook like vegetables or even like a protein or anything. So not only are they not botanically vegetables, they aren't even culinarily vegetables either.
Also if you don't like mushrooms because of the texture, you're probably cooking your mushrooms wrong.
Mushrooms are detachable fungal penises that jizz into the wind.
What an inspiration to us all
That’s cool. I like that I’m sucking off cooked rudimentary peni.
As you should.
I had always learned if it has seeds (in nature) then it was a fruit, otherwise it was a vegetable or something else
A "vegetable" is simply any edible part of a plant. Fruits can therefore be considered a subcategory of vegetables.
If you really want to get into the nitty gritty, an ear of corn is botanically a fruit, since it's the seed-bearing body of a plant. But nobody in their right mind would consider corn a fruit.
fucking fucking
The fucking mushrooms.
vegetable fruit discourse is fucking stupid. just call'em edibles if we're not getting into the scientifically proven specifics.
