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@aescling which is a correct read. the stance of communism is that social liberty is more important than personal liberty

@aescling i think what worries people in the US about “authoritarian” states is not that they are anti-democratic but that they are anti–personal liberty/freedom

do we know for a fact that calcifer is not just a bi woman

on the other hand, it is a mechanism for encoding an identifier that every system can understand

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all a URL is is a mechanism for encoding an identifier that every system can understand

how identifiers are assigned? not specified by URL
what that identifier means? not specified by URL
how to resolve that identifier? not specified (or guaranteed) by URL

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it is both amazing and a real problem how many people think that URLs are somehow both more and less than this

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the only thing URLs get you is a universally-understood syntax with defined semantics

@coriander thanks

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i would also ram an asteroid but they never reply to my posts on Lex

one day i will probably pronounce “Cofagrigus” correctly the first time

@noelle i love how ’ve is used more broadly in british as opposed to american english

in american english it typically only stands for have-the-helper-verb, not have-the-possessive, like “I’ve got five pennies”

but in british english you can just say “I’ve five pennies” it's great

@lapis @coriander i mean that's what i'm saying though, text censorship is the original censorship, it's always been technologically trivial to search text for "bad" words

so using bad or obscure euphemisms is already an ingrained part of fandom culture; people would adapt to it on tumblr pretty easily i feel

sidenote: i imagine historians in the future will really resent the early 2000’s for making them keep running lists of site-specific words and phrases used to get around censorship blocks lmao

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