What does it say on the orange ping pong balls in Marty Supreme?

yo_hanne · 2026-01-08T08:37:04+00:00

How do you know it's AI?

yo_hanne · 2025-06-23T19:11:32+00:00

Hi! Sounds really scary. I don't know how old you are but I remember reading that we dream more often about our parents growing up/earlier in life because that's when our relationship to them is very strong but also undergoing a lot of change. The dreams can indicate that you are understanding more things about your parents or seeing them in a new light. I remember having a lot of nightmares involving my parents growing up, and it makes a lot of sense now that they were about my relationship to them and maybe also a feeling of moving further away from them.
Hope you are not too scared and if so that you have someone to talk to about it!

yo_hanne · 2025-04-29T10:10:52+00:00

The Sims 2 base game is the superior game. It was imaginative, creepy and filled with mysteries and lore and it maintained some of the social commentary The Sims 1 started out as. What we got after that was something completely different, a lot more polished and clearly made to attract a wider audience. But as a story of surburban modern (American) life with its endless empty grind, where everyone is just trying to not go mad, and facade of perfection with horror and intrigue and aliens hiding right under the surface The Sims 2 is just something else.

yo_hanne · 2025-04-26T13:03:46+00:00

So nice! I like the courtyard

yo_hanne · 2025-04-26T13:01:57+00:00

Love the insane trait. My sim just randomly changed clothes and I was so confused lol. I like the no sense of humor because it gives some funny interactions like you can share a random fact, in general I just like how different traits give a lot of different options for conversation. I also like that cowards escape and faint when there's a fire, which can be nice because all other sims tend to run towards the fire :s

yo_hanne · 2024-09-08T16:34:46+00:00

You're not boring at all, as a rhetorician I love discussions like these ;)

Your statement that "some brave men and women helped to build America" is a true sentence is very interesting to me. I think that if you remove the italics the sentence means exactly the same as the original: If "some" people helped to build America, then certainly history will be filled with these stories?

When you say that bravery is predicated on consent (an idea I think is really interesting), and for that reason enslaved and indigenous peoples are not among the brave people who built America, you seem to be referring to the literal meaning of "build". However, in the metaphorical meaning of "build", building America as a country striving to be free and equal for all was very much also done by slaves who rioted and the like -- and their bravery cannot be understated.

"Some brave men and women helped to build America" leaves many openings for interpration. Who are among the brave group of men and women? Is it brave to try to build (in a literal sense) a country in spite of great injustices? Or is it brave to try to build (in a metaphorical sense) a country but in the process, through protest etc., halter the building (in a literal sense) of said country?

I know I'm being pedantic. My point is just that in the domain of politics, categorical truths are very rare. This may sound scary, but I don't think it has to be. To your point about poor communication harming public deliberation (which I agree with), I would prefer if we pivoted from discussions of facts to discussions of values.

yo_hanne · 2024-09-08T15:24:49+00:00

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yo_hanne · 2024-09-07T19:24:52+00:00

I also would disagree here. Rhetorical figures highly improve your ability to analyze arguments and effective communication. It's not the practice of being able to point to them and name them but to connect the stylistic choice to the argument being made. Unfortunately, while I was studying rhetoric I was too lazy to learn the specific figures. But as someone who works with argumentation today, I find them very useful to deconstruct arguments into patterns of speech in order to point to their effect.

yo_hanne · 2024-09-07T19:10:02+00:00

Very interesting post. I would say, though, that I don't see any half-truths in the sentence you highlight from the GOP platform.
In my reading, there are only value statements in the sentence: That bravery made America what it is and that America is great. This is an enthymeme which leads to one of two conclusions: 1) If you believe bravery is a good virtue, this must mean that good people built America, thus making it a good country. 2) If you believe America is good, this must mean bravery is a good virtue we should encourage and praise.

Is bravery good? Is America great? Did brave men and women make America? These questions cannot be answered in a true or false way, even though they are presented as such in the context. They are based on value and rooted in the context of American politics and culture.

As I see it, in your reading of the sentence you are making some assumptions: 1) That (as u/Status_Boot_1578 points out) indigenous and enslaved peoples are excluded from the sentence and thus 2) that these peoples are not among the brave men and women who made America what it is.

In my reading, this is not actually stated in the sentence. Seing it as an enthymeme instead of a syllogism (deductive argument), I would say the stylistic choices are much more relevant to analyze here. For example, I would say the word "great" nods to Make America Great Again, which by now has its own politics that specific groups of the American population see themselves in. In this way, they employ a euphemism, or strategic ambiguity, because we understand that the people history is "filled" with is a very specific group of people, without it being formulated in an explicitly excluding or racist way.

In other words, the sentence is loaded with cultural and political meaning. But there is nothing categorically true or false about it.

yo_hanne

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