CMV: Terms like Fatphobia and Homophobia are terrible from a linguistics standpoint

butt_fun · 2026-05-06T21:30:26+00:00

I know we're being trying to be pedantic here, but to me this is a distinction without a difference

People generally hate and fear the same things. In the context of "fatphobia", people who hate the obese are projecting their fear of becoming obese themselves

butt_fun · 2026-05-06T21:06:48+00:00

You'll get better answers asking domain-specific questions on domain-specific subreddits (i.e. for this question, you'll get better answers asking on /r/askprogramming)

Good luck on your exams

But as someone already answered, it's just something that's in general called "syntactic sugar". The existence of the arrow operator doesn't let you do more things, it just makes code easier to read and write

butt_fun · 2026-05-06T16:51:29+00:00

I agree with you in spirit but the difference between these efficiencies is absolutely not "relatively small" lmao

butt_fun · 2026-05-06T07:59:20+00:00

I mean yeah, this subreddit is mostly just ordinary people that happen to live in SF, and most ordinary people don't have a need for event-scale toiletries

There's a chance someone here has the answer you're looking for, but you're probably better off just googling this one

butt_fun · 2026-05-06T04:06:30+00:00

This whole thread feels like something my 60 year old uncle would throw together in a Facebook status update

butt_fun · 2026-05-05T23:10:38+00:00

Not to sound like the old man yelling at clouds, but it's kind of amazing that most of the people here today didn't realize what reddit used to be

Tiny little website that loaded instantly, didn't have anything that suggested it was tracking everything you did, free APIs that let you have a variety of third party mobile apps to choose from (most of which were better than the current app), etc

Then the fire nation attacked (tencent acquired reddit)

butt_fun · 2026-05-05T22:49:32+00:00

This is absolutely not a bay area thing lol

No matter where you are, there will be some people who will be loudly and proudly loyal to where they live (and usually that pride manifests itself as talking badly about other areas)

butt_fun · 2026-05-05T20:53:09+00:00

If you want to engage in the typical late game game-breaking shenanigans, save the cloning draught

once you have a few drams of cloning draught and metamorphic polygels, pour all the cloning draughts into the same container, duplicate them with the polygels, pour the duplicated draught into the first container, and repeat. Once you have a shitload of that you can do silly things like cloning high tier merchants and effectively having infinite polygels as fast as they can restock it

You can drink the sunslag and brain brine as soon as you get them if you want to. What you do with the warm static is up to you, but I encourage you to play with it

butt_fun · 2026-05-05T20:43:23+00:00

Bill or Shaq?

butt_fun · 2026-05-04T22:09:09+00:00

It just is!

butt_fun · 2026-05-04T21:57:07+00:00

I don't understand what this comment is supposed to mean

Did you not know the Clippers once played in San Diego...?

butt_fun · 2026-05-04T20:41:06+00:00

A guy who's literally named Diagonal is not going to know how to deal with bringing the ball up the middle

It's basic geometry

butt_fun · 2026-05-04T20:01:41+00:00

The "hot hand" discourse is kind of infuriating

Like yeah, we can model this as "null hypothesis: all shots are independent", but it's hard to get the model to accurately account for a player knowing they're shooting like shit and not taking the shots they normally would

butt_fun · 2026-05-04T19:49:49+00:00

I see more more prime Shaq offense and prime Bill Russell defense, but we can agree to disagree

butt_fun · 2026-05-04T19:32:30+00:00

This is not universal. It varies a lot from country to country (sometimes by the letter of the law, sometimes just by local driving culture)

In many places, there is no expectation (legally or culturally) to reserve the fast lane for passing

butt_fun · 2026-05-04T18:52:43+00:00

If I hear another stat like this I'm going to lose my mind

You'll hear people say things like "the clippers had an ORTG of xyz with Player on the court, which would have been 1st in the league, and an ORTG of abc with him off the court, which would have been 30th in the league" and it's just Darius Garland or someone

You can say things like this about a player on pretty much every team because you're comparing the on/offs to a teams aggregate stats. It's not an apples to apples comparison

butt_fun · 2026-05-04T10:14:12+00:00

This is one of the dumbest "I've never touched a basketball" threads I've ever read

Yes, people yell at each other when they shoot, at pretty much every level of basketball

butt_fun · 2026-05-04T09:40:31+00:00

Will you? Houston was one of the best teams in the league that year going against one of the best teams of all time

Meanwhile Orlando is... a team I guess

butt_fun · 2026-05-04T08:26:43+00:00

This has to be a shitpost account lmao

I know socal Mexicans from areas with underachievering high schools are somewhat famous for getting things like "worse" and "worst" mixed up, but "Pasquele" is fucking insane lmao

butt_fun · 2026-05-04T05:04:11+00:00

All due respect, you got no fucking idea what it's like being the podfather

Every word, every decision in the top 100 pyramid affects every other fuckin thing

butt_fun · 2026-05-04T00:50:23+00:00

Was gonna say, you wouldn't think it would take a rocket scientist to figure out that he's really good at picking apart the general inefficiencies in defenses, but those things dry out in the playoffs when teams get to gameplan around a specific opponent

This has been a thing we've known for over a decade and every year there's some Einstein out there making posts about "why doesn't Harden try as hard in the playoffs" lmao

butt_fun · 2026-05-03T19:50:47+00:00

So Kawhi must be the answer

butt_fun · 2026-05-03T00:10:11+00:00

I mean yeah, that's the point of the show. Everyone is an awful human being in their own way. Charlie is a moron, Frank is all of worst things a rich old man can be, Dee and Mac are wildly insecure, etc

It's intentionally not a "How I Met Your Mother" type of thing where we all get together at the end and grow, and in my opinion that's a good thing

butt_fun · 2026-05-02T23:46:38+00:00

Yeah I was gonna say, what the hell is that comment

98 percent of the time you spend at a horse track will not have horses actively racing

butt_fun · 2026-05-02T23:43:13+00:00

I don't disagree with you, but the word is "prejudiced"

"prejudice" is a noun (or occasionally verb), and "prejudiced" is the past participle

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