Lucidlethargy

@Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awooo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a free English lesson: Retard: To delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awooo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who is clinically mentally disabled, I’ve never been offended by this so long as it’s not targeting a human being (being used in the pejorative to describe a neurotically person.) Why does it offend you? I’m genuinely asking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awooo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  the R word in relation to humans is considered a no no. This isn’t accepted by everyone, though. In fact, I’d argue that it’s really only accepted by “polite society” at this point. This means that even in left-leaning communities like Lemmy, we’re seeing a majority of individuals speak out and very clearly say “This does not offend me.”

  I avoid the use of the word typically because I aim to achieve something when I speak. By using a word that’s being actively burned by part of a community, you risk being selectively censored. This said, I think those who might censor others for the use of this word are doing the people they censor a massive disservice. I think a lot of the people practicing this are younger, and they were taken in strongly by the monied campaigns to push this word over the last 20 years. People paid to change their minds, and it worked.

  At the end of the day, however, we’re looking at a word that means the exact same thing as a number of other words nobody cares to censor. This makes the entire ordeal nothing more than a mechanism to divide people who would otherwise get along. The world is becoming too small a place to allow for this sort of division, so I oppose this witch hunt. The word should either be tolerated, or we should see a true approach to protect disabled individuals - not this half-assed, virtue-signaling approach being enacted today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awooo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL, I do think we can both agree that “conservative” is the best approach to belittling someone’s intelligence. It also carries with it a number of other connotations, though (crazy comes to mind.)

  As for the “r-word” being “flagged” by “that community”. That’s quite the overreaching statement. There is no single community to speak of here, and there was absolutely never a true consensus on this word by our society as a whole.

  The reality is that the “r-word” campaign was a heavily monied thing pushed on billboards, tv ads, and online ads over the last 20 or so years. If you ask me, someone who is literally part of “that community”, I think it was a bunch of Karen’s behind the entire thing.

  The word “retard” was clinical when I was growing up. People quite literally referred to mentally challenged individuals as “mentally retarded”, and it was not an insult in any way. There is the core definition to this word, and it has a lot of other scientific and industry-based definitions. The fact it was separated from “mental” and then ostracized as a “bad word” by certain groups of people is downright ludicrous.

  You could say “this process has been retarded to the point of complete failure”, and it would (should) have no negative connotation targeting individuals who were born with “deficiencies” in the area of intellect. Instead, it uses the definition of the word: “To delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment.”

  This crusade against this single word in 2025 is simply asinine. We have huge problems to tackle in this world, and I really don’t believe anyone of substance should care about this. I’ve never met an actual, neurodivergent individual that takes offense to it being used in a way that doesn’t directly target them, or someone like them. That is to say, we’re talking about the Michael Scott usage.

  You don’t call a paraplegic person “lame” because “oops”, that’s pretty messed up even if you didn’t mean it that way. This said, I doubt that person would take offense in a situation like this. This is where we should be with the “r-word”. There is simply no justification for making this word synonymous with a word like the n-word. It does not have that power, and I reject the monied campaigns trying to spread a narrative that it should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awooo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The upvotes tell a different story than your manufactured narrative, which was pushed with a lot of money around ten to fifteen years ago to villlify a word.

  Think about this: Why is it alright to call someone a moron, or an idiot, or an imbecile? Nobody ever goes after these, and they are more often used to denegrate people based on their intellect.

  This entire “r-word” campaign is very stupid. By the way, there’s another one I just used. I bet you use that one, too, don’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We poisoned the whole planet so our eggs wouldn't stick to the pan 🙃⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently switched to cast iron, and I have no fucking idea why I wasted so much time and money on nonstick over the last many years. They are better than nonstick, easier to maintain, and make good taste better as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨quick health tip⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You haven’t lived until you’ve had a soy sauce mimosa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck Nintendo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft’s VR support is now gone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To make things worse, Fabric is a thing now, and it’s splitting modders up from the unifying Forge origin.

  Minecraft has always been a freaking mess, though. They need a Minecraft 2 with better mod support and physics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar panels cleaning solar panels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d only need two, if anyone is interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did you caption this with mouse? Are you an AI?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL, yeah… Cause shit is going great in America right now.

  Deflation bad, fascism good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s thinking like a corporation. The rest of us just stop buying games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. I won’t buy them, so I don’t care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. They show the Switch here… Those greedy assholes never lower the price of that console. Fuck Nintendo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pope⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Guys, only she can understand love since she has been up in a billionaire taxi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aw yeah! I imagine it’s like 2 fps. Great for gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8BitDo no longer shipping to US from China due to Trump tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoooooosh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is shaking up its compensation to incentivize higher performance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google’s talent pool must be a joke these days. Every single product I can think of that they make is just awful in 2025.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Recession, have you all not been paying attention?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Until now I thought drying filament wasn't that important⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry… Why is nobody talking about the explosion?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 19 'Truly Superwealthy' US Families Grew $1 Trillion Richer Last Year: Analysis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Worry not, we won’t be alive for long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 19 'Truly Superwealthy' US Families Grew $1 Trillion Richer Last Year: Analysis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is definitely worse than the golden age… Their supporters (conservatives) need to realize it, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly think a lot less if Linux at this point… Not because of him, but because of comments like this, and the upvotes they have.

  Fuck Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, fuck this guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point. We peasents don’t even know what love is, let alone Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This seals it, I should never use Linux again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a fucking moron.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol “once Duscord enshittifies”. Bro… It happened years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol “middle class”… Does anyone know a middle class family? I just see people with money, and people who don’t have enough. That’s the real world… Maybe long ago there was a middle class?