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This IS the descriptive approach. Trying to wrangle fish out of ghoti is simply not how people read.

Reminder that according to the actual rules of English orthography, “ghoti” can never be pronounced as “fish”, because said rules feature “position within a word/syllable” very prominently. An onset g simply can’t be pronounced the same way as a final gh, and in fact, any “gh” followed immediately by a vowel must be pronounced with the hard /g/ sound. “ti” is only ever allowed to fricitize to the “sh” sound if it’s followed by another vowel. Ghoti can only be pronounced the same as “goatee”, and English speakers know this intuitively even if they can’t articulate why they know this, the same as we internalize hundreds of other language rules without knowing that we know them.

Nice rework! I thought yours was the original for a moment, and was rolling my eyes at what I thought was the rework in the comment… yours just flows so much better. I like it!

Classic.

Can’t you listen to the lyrics? No monastery nor any other house of study is involved here, the target is clearly the fyrd for crying out loud!

No. Enshittification has a very specific definition. It’s a business model that follows exactly these steps:

Step 1: make a product or service of high quality to users, offered for free, to gather a large user base.

Step 2: slowly optimize the platform for “business users”, aka advertisers. The service now starts to become worse for the original user base.

Step 3: make the product worse for both end users and businesses in order to squeeze more short-term profits.

It’s not a general term for “things getting worse”, it describes exactly these three steps, in this order, exactly as stated. Any variation would need a new term… except we have enough examples of this playbook that no such variations have been spotted.

‘sup fellow ptsd person. My psychologist explained that ptsd comes from an extended period of time where you believe, actually believe not and just muse about abstractly, that you are going to die or an equivalent level of terror. I have little doubt you could get ptsd from it. It’s the end of your life as you know it, even if not literally the end of your life.

If you haven’t/aren’t already, I strongly suggest finding a therapist trained and specializing expressly in ptsd management. I had some therapists that were a bit more generally trained, and they… did not really help. The specialist untangled multiple of my triggers, and let me live my life again— there’s still some left, but I had to move away and I haven’t found another specialist left. If only ptsd was the sort of thing that went away over time (it doesn’t). And definitely, definitely run (don’t walk) away from anyone suggesting anything remotely resembling talk therapy. Talking about your ptsd can literally make it worse, and reprogramming triggers can be as complicated and delicate as defusing a bomb.

For those not aware, avoid lemmy.ml because it’s a tankie run and enforced echo chamber, where Russia, China, and North Korea can do no wrong, and saying otherwise is banned as “hate speech”.

Metaphorically speaking, not inaccurate!

This explains how to make one, but not really how it works. It’s actually even simpler than that for how.

You remember from physics class how hot things expand (get bigger), and cold thing contract (get smaller)? It works the other way too… make something smaller, by compressing (squeezing) it, and it’ll get hotter. Make something bigger by expanding (stretching) it, and it’ll get cooler. And the key thing is, it does this increase and decrease by basically a set amount.

Another thing you may realize is that temperatures tend to equalize. But a hot thing in the cool air, and the hot thing will get cooler and the air will get warmer. If you put an air-temperature thing in air, neither will change, because both are at the same temperature already.

These two facts are all you need to know to understand a refrigerator.

Step one: take a liquid or gas or something, and equalize it with the temperature in the box.

Step two: take that liquid or gas out of the box, then squeeze it hard so that it heats up. Now, let the hotter liquid or gas equalize with the air OUTSIDE the box, getting cooler.

Step three: stop squeezing the liquid or gas so that it cools back down… but we already lost some heat to the air when it was hotter! So when it cools down, it’ll cool down to LOWER than before.

Now, when we repeat the steps, step one is to equalize with the temperature inside the box. This will lower the temperature in the box!

And that’s how it works. Two physics principles and a little bit of engineering.

Also known as tankies. And the .ml lemmy instances are unfortunately full of them.

Not even close. This old ZeFrank video really applies: https://youtu.be/-KQb3Mx2WMw

Teens just think differently. It’s not their fault, no more is it the fault of my four year old when he can’t understand things. It’s just part of growing up. But this part of growing up involved emotions being heightened not just to 11, but like 27 or something absurd like that. It creates so much drama, heartache, and pain.

Now, all those saying that work is, in fact, just like high school? They’re complaining about individual people they meet who act immature, reminding them a little of high school. The fact is, as adults we SHOULD be leaving that all behind, and anyone that continues to do it is an outlier. And outliers get attention, and we tend to focus out experiences on them.

But it IS an outlier. Adult life is not like high school, except in exceptions that we sometimes focus on in frustration because we shouldn’t have to deal with it, but sometimes do.

In highschool, it’s not the exception, it’s just how things are all the time. It can’t help but be that way. It’s how you grow up. It’s how we are as young humans, anywhere and everywhere.

Adulthood is different. There are times we remember being young and stupid, mostly when witnessing people being stupid sometimes— and that never changes. But adulthood is different.