Vodulas [they/them]

That is good to hear. Still not my jam, but always better to have a welcoming community

I think tactics can pretty easily be done while rping. They mostly want you not to use modern terms and follow the personality of your character as far as I can tell

I don’t think practicality is really the point, but I also am not a fan of all roleplay. It tends to be pretty hostile to new players

In most games/servers that enforce roleplay, it is a ban. Either temp or permanent

I don’t think they were bought by anyone, but their distributor did recently approve them for ads. I suggested that as a possibility, but she was pretty sure it was PocketCasts inserting them. We shall see either way.

My partner noticed a ton of ads in a similar situation (listening to older podcasts). She was also under the impression these older casts did not have ads, but she is getting more and more each listen. Maybe it is the creator inserting them in older episodes, but she is trying AntennaPod, so we shall see

Vernacular is specifically used for informal language, and in this particular case, linguists did not want to imply slang. I am not a linguist, but the sources I found from people who study AAE cited that as the reason for the name change

It was AAVE for a long time, and momentum is a hell of a thing. Ultimately whatever the culture wants to call it, it is really up to them.

Of note here, AAVE is an outdated term. AAE - African American English (still a little outdated) or AAL - African American Language (the newest, most accurate term) are more accurate. Linguists dropped the “Vernacular” because it is not a slang language, and are starting to change “English” to “Language” because it is most likely derived from creole, not English

It is not just slang, though. It is a whole language that black folks have been constantly asking white people to stop using as slang. This is just one public instance of it happening

Surprising, but if it works, great!

Doesn’t that defeat the convection? At least from the bottom

Dishwashers use a combination of enzymes (in the detergent) that breakdown food, heat, and abrasion to clean dishes. Don’t put anything nonstick in one unless you like Teflon poisoning or your nonstick items to be stick items. Steel is fine, and aluminum will oxidize and look bad, but will still work. I assume the basket isn’t plastic, so no worries there, but don’t put melamine in the dishwasher either.

Nobody was angry. Also, words have multiple uses. Just because it was used in Pulp Fiction in the BDSM context does not mean it doesn’t carry the ableist definition.

That is probably where they got it, but the word definitely had multiple uses at the time. It may not have been explicitly ableist, but it is and was an ableist word. It also invalidates their claim that they are trying to reclaim usage. Again, they named it that because they thought it was funny, not some grand scheme.

I think they are leaving out the part where they called it “The GIMP” in the 90s. They clearly chose the name to be edgy, and they are now trying to justify it after the fact. Complaining about the “sterilization” of language is just out of touch and leaves out the fact that if they stopped using the word, it might just completely fall out of use.

Just stop using “clean.” It implies other foods are dirty, and adds an element of shame. Some people don’t have the option

Ugh, I wish the “clean food” craze would die.

https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/clean-eating-is-classist-at-its-core/

Edit: Article doesn’t mention clean, that was just my brain inserting it.

Edit edit: the heat is messing with me. It is in the subtitle

something is unethical without stating or at least implying a specific ethical philosophy.

Which is why I followed it up by saying the best we can do is harm reduction by choosing the less harmful paths when we find them. Nothing you are saying is different to what I said, just a different wording

A. Not a “dude”

B. I’ll pose the same rhetorical as I did to the other person that didn’t think popularity was support:

If you see two pieces of identical software, one with 1000 downloads and one with 100,000, which would you choose?