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I know this is probably a repost but the self-censorship is super annoying and has entered the lexicon in ways that can permanently damage human communication as a whole.
Yeah sure censor stuff from kid shows but we’re at the point where “unalive” and “pdf file” are being used as code words. Everyone knows what they mean, even the censors.
100% agree, we live in a 1984 age.
Also, using stupid words such as unalive doesn’t make any sense because the algorithm of social media companies knows exactly what it means.
Its coming from Tiktok. Bytedance has heavy word censorship and if one of your comments or videos was flagged as inappropriate and had one of those words your account would be automatically suspended for review.
So a lot of normal westerm words got flagged. Kill. Dead. Any word related to sex. Hole. (Lol) basically every curse word.
Then there are gray words like Pedophile where people think it changes the algorithm to show your videos less if they contain them, but no one has any proof from what I can tell.
I use things like “he has chosen to meet his ancestors right then and there”
It’s annoying that its driven by ad revenues, and made more dumb by the fact that if everyone can decode it, then they’re still advertising over sex and violence. So the whole endeavor is pointless.
But I don’t think it will cause any harm. Humans have been using slang, code, and memetic language to obscure meaning from others and identify their in-crowds since the dawn of human language. Some of it is dumber than others, but it won’t cause any harm.
It’s also extremely weird because people often just default to the “hidden meaning” completely ignoring context. There were so many instances where I was being shouted at for writing “CP” on the Cyberpunk subreddit, it was just weird…
There is absolutely no chance that this idiotic self censorship can permanently damage human communication.
There certainly are feelings associated with the fact that we can analyze the DNA of rots
I have a simple flowchart to determine what is or isn’t a veggie:
> Can I eat it? -> Yes -> Does it come from an animal? -> No = Vegetable
Rice, my favorite vegetable.
… Is it not?
Being a grain (or even specifically a “Cereal grain”) doesn’t exclude it, see corn.
Sand has a lot of minerals in it. Probably the healthiest veggie of them all!
That’s why they call you the bread man.
I mostly agree, but there’s a few holes in that flowchart:
My favorite vegetables are salt and ice.
Rocks are vegetables nodnod
Gushers are vegetables, got it.
Behold a vegetable
Ahh Diogenes the greatest philosopher
I also add: Does it taste good?
I do this because of cranberries. I do not eat anything that you can make candles or soap from…
VEGETABLES DO NOT EXIST
My wife and I like to joke that vegetables aren’t real and all of them are just something else in reality.
You’re correct! “Vegetable” is a culinary term. “Fruit” is both botanical and culinary. The “tomato isn’t a fruit” nonsense comes from people trying to conflate the two; if we called botanical fruits “grunkles” we wouldn’t have this problem.
All in favor of renaming botanical fruits to “gruntled”?
Aye
Edit: God damn you, autocorrect
In terms of botany, a vegetable isn’t a thing (it’s a culinary term).
Whereas a fruit has a specific botanical term (and a culinary term).
Not everything is “one or the other”, some things are neither (Rhubarb), and some are both (tomato).
You can’t say “both” when there are three choices
- Vegetable as a culinary term
- Fruit as a culinary term
- Fruit as a botanical term
Youre absolutely correct
It’s the difference between the culinary use of the word and the biological use of the word. I thought we already figured that out?
Still a fun observation in relation to mushrooms.
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The thing is too that mushrooms don’t even cook like vegetables or even like a protein or anything. So not only are they not botanically vegetables, they aren’t even culinarily vegetables either.
Also if you don’t like mushrooms because of the texture, you’re probably cooking your mushrooms wrong.
Also if you don’t like mushrooms because of the texture,
I think mushrooms get a bad rap. People talk about the dirt they’re in being grown in feces, like it’s any different than every other crop that’s grown. Potatoes are grown up close and personal in soil too and soil isn’t clean :)
We might find there’s a flavor component like cilantro that some can taste. Or maybe they just don’t like the idea of the grown in soil and hard to clean, or maybe they don’t like that we’re eating the repuductive organs.
my brother-in-law hates them, but loves my mashed potato dish that loaded down. I just reduce mushrooms, garlic, and onions in butter until they’re about to start to get firm then blitz them to slightly chunky gravy, stir that back into refrigerated looosely smashed potatoes, with some soft butter and a little chicken bone broth. When i’m done the flavor is still there, but it’s a background note to the potato/butter/chicken
I just think mushrooms taste like shit, meh at best, not a texture thing.
Is that just the normal ones you find at the grocery store, or have you tried other types? I think oyster mushrooms are really good when you fry them until they are crispy. Lion’s mane is really good too, I like to make vegan pulled pork with them. The flavor of some foraged ones are also amazing like chantarell and black trumpets. Chicken of the woods also tastes and kinda feels like lemony dry chicken. There’s soooo many great mushrooms
Have tried all the ones you mentioned and many more over my years, I grew up amongst old world hippies, have eaten many a mushroom, wish I had the taste for them, just don’t really. Some are def better than others, but overall I find them very meh
Morels are pretty good too. My grandma used to deep fry them.
I mean there’s only hundreds of them, you have tried them all right?
It’s like saying I don’t like all meat because you dislike snake jerky.
Mushrooms are detachable fungal penises that jizz into the wind.
What an inspiration to us all
That’s cool. I like that I’m sucking off cooked rudimentary peni.
As you should.
All fruits are vegetables.
I’m not a vegetable!
all fruits are fucking vegetables… oh wait
I had always learned if it has seeds (in nature) then it was a fruit, otherwise it was a vegetable or something else
The definition strictly is “fruiting body”, that their flower head goes through a process of becoming a fruiting body
if it has seeds (in nature) then it was a fruit, otherwise it was a vegetable
Many vegetables have seeds.
Pumpkins are already in the example, but think peppers, legumesI would still consider those fruits tbh, but yea they do draw the line
The thing is fruit/vegetable is not a category in botany. Fruit exists, and it kinda has that definition, that it carries seeds, but that doesn’t serve to distinguish it from vegetables.
Fruit/vegetable is a culinary distinction, rather than a scientific one.
And this is the whole point of the controversy: The same word can have multiple meanings in different contexts and some people have trouble with that concept.
There’s no controversy, only differing categories.
If you are saying tomato is a fruit, you are using the botany category
When I say tomato is a vegetable, I am using the culinary category
If there’s argument it’s only because someone is keeping the category secret
… that’s what I was saying.
A “vegetable” is simply any edible part of a plant. Fruits can therefore be considered a subcategory of vegetables.
If you really want to get into the nitty gritty, an ear of corn is botanically a fruit, since it’s the seed-bearing body of a plant. But nobody in their right mind would consider corn a fruit.
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