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Kepler said:
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India is going to be in for a world of fucking hurt in 25 years. The level of death will be unprecedented.
 
This is a perfect description of what I aim for in not structuring as much of my time as possible:

That evening had no destiny at all; since it was clear, I went out to take a walk and to recollect after dinner. I did not want to determine a route for my stroll; I tried to attain a maximum latitude of probabilities in order not to fatigue my expectation with the necessary foresight of any one of them.
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Found this on FB this AM:

I found this on another timeline but had trouble sharing it, so I am re-posting it.

GREAT SEA STORY
The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia. The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought Captain John DS. Phillips, the result. The Warrimoo's position was LAT 0? 31' N and LONG 179 30' W. The date was 31 December 1899. "Know what this means?" First Mate Payton broke in, "We're only a few miles from the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line". Captain Phillips was prankish enough to take full advantage of the opportunity for achieving the navigational freak of a lifetime.
He called his navigators to the bridge to check & double check the ship's position. He changed course slightly so as to bear directly on his mark. Then he adjusted the engine speed.
The calm weather & clear night worked in his favor. At mid-night the SS Warrimoo lay on the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed the International Date Line! The consequences of this bizarre position were many:
The forward part (bow) of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere & in the middle of summer.
The rear (stern) was in the Northern Hemisphere & in the middle of winter.
The date in the aft part of the ship was 31 December 1899.
In the bow (forward) part it was 1 January 1900.
This ship was therefore not only in:
Two different days,
Two different months,
Two different years,
Two different seasons
But in two different centuries - all at the same time!
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MissThundercat said:
One cool thing I learned is that "dork" had perjorative connotations in the 1960s; it meant socially inept. But it's been taken back and is now being used as a compliment.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dork
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It’s all about context. Favorite example: the same word can have different baggage attached to it, depending on the culture. Thanks to Bugs Bunny, “Nimrod” is used as an insult in the US. But why did Bugs Bunny repeatedly call Elmer Fudd Numrod? At the time, it was simply sarcastic: Nimrod is a name that comes from Genesis, where Nimrod is mentioned as a mighty hunter. Over time, though, after generations of school kids imitated art by calling each other Nimrod, the meaning morphed into a more generalized reference to a dumb or inept person. In the UK, no such transition occurred, so the term Nimrod has retained its original definition as a mighty hunter, to the point that their submarine-hunting aircraft was lovingly named the Nimrod.

When I worked with a bunch of BAE engineers on F-35 in Fort Worth, many of them had company swag (shirts, wallets, keychains, etc) proudly emblazoned with the word Nimrod, which amused us American engineers to no end.
 
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"Dork", "Geek", and "Nerd" have all gone through a 180* shift in context over the last 20 years within a majority of American society. They were all derogatory in the 80's but have become compliments and badges of honor.

We've also seen use of "Gay" and "Retarded" fall out of use over that time. They were commonly used to describe something as being lame/dumb, but have fallen out due to the obvious negative context associated with them. (the *****'s are for the R-word that mean delayed/slow)

Hell, 8 years ago the word "yeet" didn't even exist, ha ha ha.

Language evolves over time.
 
LynahFan said:
It’s all about context. Favorite example: the same word can have different baggage attached to it, depending on the culture. Thanks to Bugs Bunny, “Nimrod” is used as an insult in the US. But why did Bugs Bunny repeatedly call Elmer Fudd Numrod? At the time, it was simply sarcastic: Nimrod is a name that comes from Genesis, where Nimrod is mentioned as a mighty hunter. Over time, though, after generations of school kids imitated art by calling each other Nimrod, the meaning morphed into a more generalized reference to a dumb or inept person. In the UK, no such transition occurred, so the term Nimrod has retained its original definition as a mighty hunter, to the point that their submarine-hunting aircraft was lovingly named the Nimrod.

When I worked with a bunch of BAE engineers on F-35 in Fort Worth, many of them had company swag (shirts, wallets, keychains, etc) proudly emblazoned with the word Nimrod, which amused us American engineers to no end.
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TIL. That's WAY more funny.
 
RaceBoarder said:
"Dork", "Geek", and "Nerd" have all gone through a 180* shift in context over the last 20 years within a majority of American society. They were all derogatory in the 80's but have become compliments and badges of honor.

We've also seen use of "Gay" and "********" fall out of use over that time. They were commonly used to describe something as being lame/dumb, but have fallen out due to the obvious negative context associated with them. (the *****'s are for the R-word that mean delayed/slow)

Hell, 8 years ago the word "yeet" didn't even exist, ha ha ha.

Language evolves over time.
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My favorite is "radical", which meant something far different in the 80s/90s than it did in the 60s.
 
French Rage said:
My favorite is "radical", which meant something far different in the 80s/90s than it did in the 60s.
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That had a negative context in the 60's? I was unaware. I just assumed that it was picked up by Gen-X in the 80's/90's from their Hippie parents/grandparents.
 
LynahFan said:
It’s all about context. Favorite example: the same word can have different baggage attached to it, depending on the culture. Thanks to Bugs Bunny, “Nimrod” is used as an insult in the US. But why did Bugs Bunny repeatedly call Elmer Fudd Numrod? At the time, it was simply sarcastic: Nimrod is a name that comes from Genesis, where Nimrod is mentioned as a mighty hunter. Over time, though, after generations of school kids imitated art by calling each other Nimrod, the meaning morphed into a more generalized reference to a dumb or inept person. In the UK, no such transition occurred, so the term Nimrod has retained its original definition as a mighty hunter, to the point that their submarine-hunting aircraft was lovingly named the Nimrod.

When I worked with a bunch of BAE engineers on F-35 in Fort Worth, many of them had company swag (shirts, wallets, keychains, etc) proudly emblazoned with the word Nimrod, which amused us American engineers to no end.
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https://www.prepsportswear.com/scho...smeet-township-school-nimrods?schoolid=206323
 
RaceBoarder said:
"Dork", "Geek", and "Nerd" have all gone through a 180* shift in context over the last 20 years within a majority of American society. They were all derogatory in the 80's but have become compliments and badges of honor.

We've also seen use of "Gay" and "********" fall out of use over that time. They were commonly used to describe something as being lame/dumb, but have fallen out due to the obvious negative context associated with them. (the *****'s are for the R-word that mean delayed/slow)

Hell, 8 years ago the word "yeet" didn't even exist, ha ha ha.

Language evolves over time.
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I still distinguish between "geek" and "nerd". A geek is someone who takes an especially strong interest in any topic or hobby, but still has social skills, particularly with the opposite sex. A nerd is someone who flat-out prefers computers and machines to the company of other people and struggles socially.
 
RaceBoarder said:
"Dork", "Geek", and "Nerd" have all gone through a 180* shift in context over the last 20 years within a majority of American society. They were all derogatory in the 80's but have become compliments and badges of honor.
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When I was in high school in the late 70s, early 80s:
  • Dork was intended to be hurtful by the dumb kids, but smart kids actually took it as a pet name for each other.
  • Geek was fightin' words. It was used by the dumb kids to attack smart or othered kids and it was perfectly justified to attempt to break somebody's face over that.
  • Nerd was already a term of endearment, even among dumb kids. In fact smart kids would bridle when dumb kids would call each other "nerd," for something like actually doing the reading. It was stolen valor for what they perceived as being brain work but which was the HS equivalent of admiring Malcolm Gladwell.
Forever September seems to have changed everything, since now EVERYONE is a slave to screens, even the jocks and cheerleaders. I'm sure dumb kids still pick on smart kids out of fear and hatred just as sure I am that some kids grow up to be Republicans. Hopefully calling kids gay as an insult has died off. In my HS the only kids who used the n word were the worst trash derps of the Palin variety, but ten years before when my brother was in HS it was still the ubiquitous go to insult, as gay was when I was in school.

There must be new slurs that have replaced the old ones, though. It's not as if the average kid has gotten any nicer. So what's the way kids pay forward hate now?
 
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