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Re: Word of the day
« Reply #25 on: August 25, 2024, 03:18:43 PM »
I must admit to having felt a modicum of epicaricacy at the fate of the Toreis on the night of July 4th and 5th.
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I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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Re: Word of the day
« Reply #26 on: November 06, 2024, 10:18:36 PM »
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By replacing your morning coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 89% of the little joy you still have left in your life.

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Re: Word of the day
« Reply #27 on: December 11, 2024, 12:02:40 PM »
enshittification

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The gradual degradation of an online platform or service's functionality, as part of a cycle in which the platform or service first offers benefits to users to attract them, then pursues more and more profits at the expense of users.
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Re: Word of the day
« Reply #28 on: December 11, 2024, 12:33:22 PM »
Pokemon.
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I discovered to day that "pokemon" is a portmanteau word, short for "poketto monsutera", which is Anglo-Japanese for "pocket monsters". I discovered years ago, from 'A Ride In the Neon Sun', josie Dew's account of her tour of Japan by bike, that there are quite a lot of English loan-words in Japanese, their spelling and pronunciation altered to conform to Japanese practise, eg "curejitu cado", credit card.
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I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
Robert Macfarlane
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