Sentrovasi

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[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, agreed, but to be fair all of this is no longer criticism about why they didn't use the metric system and actually acknowledges that people need visualisation sometimes.

[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But I know what one looks like, and I go to the zoo fairly regularly. I don't know what a 1500kg weight looks like, because even for the things which are 1500kg, it's not normally its defining characteristic.

[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (7 children)

To be fair, I actually find it more difficult to visualise 1500kg than a rhino (I just don't normally interact with things on that scale), so it does help me in terms of knowing how big the satellite roughly is.

[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

> still using first person pronouns even after asking the reader to be them.

It's nice to have someone accept you for who you are though.

[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, if you're a Republican and you're admitting that Republican politicians don't have critical thinking ability, then why are you still voting for having them run a country and affecting the livelihoods of millions (billions) of people?

If the only Republican policies you're supporting are benign ones (as a non-American, I don't know which those are), are they worth all the ones that oppress and take away the rights of others?

And if you're a Republican but not a fan or voter of the Republican party as it stands, then maybe you need to reconsider what your definition of a Republican is, because Republicans themselves today are defining themselves in ever-bolder terms.

[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Unsounded by Ashley Cope is one I love that hasn't been mentioned yet.

[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They said they spent another hour after launching, though - not sure you can launch without having interacted with the Nomai statue.

[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Neither might it be important to your audience. Communication isn't usually about communicating what's important to the speaker but what's important to the listener.

And I say this as someone who constantly has to do summaries at the end of even my shorter sentences because I end up overexplaining things.

[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Vaping is banned in Singapore. You still see some people illegally possessing and vaping though.

[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

And I venture to argue that because of the way politicians want to maintain their voterbases, it pushes his politics further and further into fascism.

[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Define language, define the world.

[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Vocabulary presumably means learning the meaning of something, which means the parents must have been pretty dedicated in teaching the child the word "twelve" without poisoning their mind with knowledge of how to say any other numbers.

Alternatively, that child has learned twelve words today.

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