Cynicism is the best reaction a corrupt status quo can ask for.https://twitter.com/gaileyfrey/status/802967992090783744 …
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Replying to @nonlinear
i know i'm tedious with this but pessimism isn't cynicism, cynicism is distrust of people's supposed motives and is always A+
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Replying to @chaosprime
even literally is not literal anymore. I long to communicate, ideas as tools, not gods. I hear you: but it's a losing battle.
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Replying to @nonlinear
what can drift one way can drift another. are we not awash in the victory of battles everybody recently agreed were losing ones?
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Replying to @chaosprime
i wouldn't fight this battle. Personally. I hear you, and I even agree with you. But my goal is communication, not precision.
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Replying to @nonlinear
yeah, i know what you mean. i'm sure you can also easily see a dozen ways juxtaposing those will go horribly wrong, though.
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Replying to @chaosprime @nonlinear
there are a lot of situations where thinking you've communicated when you haven't communicated precisely is worse than silence.
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Replying to @chaosprime
Precision is when you need to communicate to engineers. Which I would, if goal is to communicate to engineers.
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Replying to @nonlinear
i think it's important in other contexts? like, if you say "move to strike down the oppressors today", you really want to be…
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…super sure that your audience parses the term "the oppressors" precisely the same way you do
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