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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Heat death” is the name given to hypothesis that the Universe will continue to expand and cool until there is no light or energy left. Using the term for Earth burning up is going to confuse people.

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  • j4k3@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You could’ve just said “oops, my bad I didn’t know that”

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    • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Communication is Paramount

      Yeah, so you shouldn’t use a well-established term like “heat death” in your own way just because you feel it’s appropriate. Words have meanings. That’s how we communicate.

      If I call you a nincompoop to say you’re really smart, just because I think there’s no clear etymology for the term, so it isn’t “linguistically relevant through uniqueness” (whatever the fuck that means) to say it means you’re foolish, you probably wouldn’t understand that’s what I meant. You might even take it as an insult. So our communication would have broken down through my misuse of a word with a well-established meaning.

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• Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So much to do, so little time.

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• TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No it isn’t…

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