The first rule of therapy club is that you talk about therapy club.

A true grammar Nazi would obviously know that it is a proper contraction. No true Scotsman and all that ;P

He even called it “Alumium” before that, which I think is even better

Not sure if you actually meant logarithmic or exponential. An exponential tax rate would mean that the more you own the next unit of value would be a lot more in tax, while a logarithmic tax rate would mean that the more you own the next unit of value would be a lot less in tax. See x² versus log₂(x) (or any logarithm base, really). The exponential (x²) would start slow and then increase fast, and the logarithmic one would start increasing fast and then go into increasing slowly.

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/7l1turktmc

Do we not use our PC as a heater to kill two birds with one stone?

As far as I know the OED is a very specific dictionary that’s way beyond what most people need and mostly for people dealing with language in their work. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/ would be the more personal variant from what I’ve heard.

It’s a reference to monetary compensation often given to high level executives in large companies for when they leave for some reasons. Usually if the leaving is on a short short time frame as opposed to finding a new position they leave for voluntarily, although I don’t know that much about how they actually work.

*hoarding

Is that that thing where someone says something wrong to get the right answer explained to them?

Which Jordan did he take some idea from? And is Jordan the first or last name?

Maybe engineering used Windows 97?

I salute you. Not many that are willing to do so. Maybe because most people don’t have very deep convictions on using FLOSS. It is easier to just do what everyone else does, after all.

Except it doesn’t specify that you go back in time to when you were 6 years old, but that you “restart your life at 6 years of age” so a fairly reasonable interpretation would be that you’ll be a 6 year old in 2024. Monkeys paw and all that.

Now, I personally think it’s more interesting if it did mean that you went back in time.

It doesn’t say you go back in time to being six years old, you start over as a six year old. A six year old in 2024.

Hashtag monkeys paw.

I disagree that we shouldn’t constrain the use of words to their definitions. It’s what helps make the meaning of sentences the most clear for everyone. If people had actually done that then the definition of “literally” wouldn’t include “figuratively” and a lot of misunderstandings could be avoided.

Otherwise we could end up with people saying that when they wrote “all white people deserve to die” what they actually meant was that they deserve to live, since that’s how they use the word “die”. It’s nonsensical to me.

We just need a proper solar flare to help us get back on track

I mean, that sounds like lube to me

I think that one may have more than two edges XD

Interestingly enough, in old English you had “werman” and “wifman” for man and woman respectively, in which case referring to all with “mankind” makes perfect sense. So the originator for mankind seems more likely to be from that than the explanation that it’s a shortening of “humankind” to me.

Merriam-Webster would like to disagree with your assertion that it is not “non-gendered”

Thanks to @Mobilityfuture@lemmy.world for the link in https://lemmy.ml/comment/7077751 (I don’t know if I could make that link in a better way)