Well, here’s the thing, you can’t cure cancer. Cancer is just a type of a many different things, all requiring very different avenues of potential “cure”.

To cure cancer, like it’s a singular, is like the DNA equivalent of “finding the cure for mental illness”.

So whenever you hear it on the forefront of something, you know it’s bullshit narrative.

This guy…

Don’t forget feeds. Americans love a good social media or news feed refined to their liking; and participating on them, like it does something.

They’re by far the most controlled population in the developed world and none of them can see they’re all fragmented in different echo chambers. Every other American is in one, “but not me”.

Genuinely a great idea for renormalising that “it is not okay” to a lot of people.

Would be great as a last minute achievement in GTA6 if the devs had time, but I’m sure it’d be spun as a “this is why we need them; to stop GTA-like crime in 'Murica” argument.

This would be an issue if I hadn’t once gain left for the seas to leave a life of inconvenience and hassle.

Streaming services really have nothing going for them again.

Huh. Well, add that to the list of many other things. Didn’t even know that one, but makes sense.

If you find out you’re this wrong about one thing and it seems so obvious now, imagine how many other things you’re wrong about but never bother to think about them with any reasoning or detail

I’m like this with shitting. It’s so insisingly inconvenient.

“Oooh. I’m in the middle of something, but you go right ahead bowel. Go on, let’s go spend the next five minutes making smell and needing cleaning… Fucking asshole.”

The city I’m in, cars were getting in the way of my cycling today. They’re pointless and slow. I understand for service vehicles like delivery trucks and taxis for the old/disabled. But it’s much faster and easier to ride a bicycle, scooter, and even walk. We can tell who the tourists are because they’re large and look very unwell, like they are not used to being bipedal.

Have you considered just using gear molds? Or getting some machined if they’re super custom and you’ll be making several of the same gear and replacing them over time.

Au contraire…

It ain’t labor if it ain’t done with a rifle and direct orders from a state.

He’s smuggling his own popcorn into the cinema.

That’s being too kind

Sticking to one definition isn’t what’s happening here.

The original post already made clear which one is being discussed. The OP is talking about a specific ist-to-ism relationship; I’m talking about ists to their isms in general. Definitions of ‘capitalist’ unrelated to capitalism aren’t ‘other definitions’ I’m ignoring, they are just not part of this discourse at all. Pointing to them doesn’t show I’m picking one definition over another, it shows you’re arguing against things that were never raised.

Yes. In the context of the original post and my comment (the isms, or ideologies), exactly this.

The first definition is not relevant to capitalism, it is the same usage as their “artist to artism” point, but it is literal and not a confused fallacy trying to introduce an ism that does not exist. An artist is to art, as a capitalist is to capital. However, we’re talking about isms here, nothing they’ve tried to raise.

That should have been obvious from the original post; if not, by my comment; if not, especially as they typed out their artism argument; if not, certainly by the time they consulted the dictionary. Four whooshes.

A word ending with -ist is just a person that aligns with the word ending with -ism. You can definitely be a salaried worker and be a capitalist. There’s evidence for this everywhere, especially through various social media, as just one example.

Morphemes have purpose in words. They’re not for vibe-communicating.

Equatorial efficiently is so 1960s.

The founders of rocketry just said, “hold my beer”.

Yeah, that’s what I think. But it ain’t the usual champagne Toyota Camry situation…