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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Typesetter here. How are you doing?

    As it happens, you can use an ellipsis to indicate a thought that has trailed off. It is standard usage.

    Also, in reference to your comment, you say “Ellipsis are wrongly used again”.

    Ellipsis is the singular form, meaning you have an error there.

    You can say, “ellipsis is wrongly used…”

    Or you can say, “ellipses are wrongly used…”

    The choice is yours.








  • I’m going to run with a little cynicism.

    I live somewhere where cannabis is not legal. There’s pressure, sure, but there’s resistance too.

    One of the factors that helped it legalized in western countries like Canada and the US is the notion of health. Pain relief. Treatment for some chronic illnesses.

    That’s cool. But imagine a pharmaceutical company isolates those health things.

    No need to legalized cannabis anymore.

    This stuff supports the anti-lefalisation movement by taking the benefits from it.

    Damned if we want to use if recreationally.









  • Yeah, that article is about how the media deliberately misinterpreted the symbol as being nazi-like after the feminist movement picked it after the war and after the Nazis used their famous double lightning insignia.

    This sort of contradicts your first comment … If I’m being kind I think you were just being inarticulate.


  • I mean that’s a wonderful “what if” situation. Universal basic income and an expanded commons.

    But I’m going to pull you up on the notion of cognitive labour.

    Most artists and writers are not just coming up with ideas but actually executing them.

    Creating pictures, even digitally, usually requires the artist to place their body in a location for a duration and perform (often repetitive) tasks.

    This is manual labour too. They chose to exchange their physical existence for the creation of this work.

    The same is true of most writers too. Not just the typing up of their ideas, but frequently the physical process of acquiring the material to express those ideas. Travelling for interviews. Talking to people.

    So yeah, don’t let them get away with suggesting that theft was purely “cognitive labour” because that finishes the crime.