When I saw that movie when I was small, I thought that was literally Taco Bell, McDonald's, and Burger King, et al fighting with tanks, etc. Taco Bell emerged victorious after a bloody struggle.

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words-were-watching...

English has real words, please use them instead of fake words.

Example:

- Superman being from Krypton is canon.

- Superman not truly being the son of Jor-El, because his mom slept around, might be one fan's headcanon.

Your move.

The Normans introduced French as the prestige language of England when they invaded, but Anglo-Saxons would have wanted to express the concept of imagination way earlier. If they had wanted to, they could have borrowed the word from Classical Latin imāginor without the 'help' of the Normans.

[1]: https://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/index.htm

[2]: https://bosworthtoller.com/

My bacon came from a pig. It doesn't mean the bacon is a pig. It's breakfast. An English breakfast. And the French are pigs. See?

Isn't that exactly what you just did?

Did I miss something?

Bosses make themselves boss.

There's no need for anarchism either.

Back to reality there are more bosses everywhere your philosophical position won't wish out of existence.

You have a job, don't you?

The Romans made themselves your boss. There was no "rational" necessity.

Bosses come into existence by will, not logic.

The world is irrational. Strawman are legitimate forms of persuasive argument, logic is for Spock.

You give me your stinky opinion saying mine stinks.

Well, you're wrong of course.

A claim to "evolution" meaning "change" is simply an excuse for anything. Evolution is about selection and I'm the big bad wolf eating your baby children: you go extinct. That's evolution, not some cheesy anything goes resignation.

Evolution is not about "selection", you're referring to a biological concept known as natural selection. I'm sorry to tell you, the evolution of a system simply means the development of the system over time. Feel free to check a dictionary. You should look up "homonym" while you're at it.

For someone so bent on controlling the English language, you should put more time into understanding it.

Laws, social norms, peer pressure, karma moderators are ALL telling you what to do.

The only reason "evolution" is thrown around is bc of natural selection. To use evolution as a term is to imply it.

And natural selection applies to cultures, behavior (see reinforcement learning, selection of responses by consequences) etc.

There is no freedom anywhere.

A planet where I can try to do anything I want, only stopped if what I am doing is being prevented by someone physically stopping me, such as an officer or concerned citizen. As per my post.

> The only reason "evolution" is thrown around is bc of natural selection. To use evolution as a term is to imply it.

https://ncse.ngo/defining-evolution

> Initially, the Latin word evolutio meant the unrolling of a scroll

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evolution

> 2a: a process of change in a certain direction (unfolding)

Your claims are easily falsifiable. The modern use of "evolution" in biology evolved after the word was already in use to mean change. You have no authority to police the use of the word.

You go to work, like everyone else. You are civil to people - because you choose - and keep your job.

Your freedom is a false illusion and can be boiled down to statistics, your zip code, age, IQ, etc.

Even your advocacy of uncaused agency is, itself, fully caused, reinforced, shaped and controlled.

And I never said evolution is exclusively a reference to natural selection- it's cache is due to the prestige of such ideas. Your sloppy usage and weak defense of such use doesn't prove anything.

I can police English if I am as free as you say I am. That's "my choice".

> I can police English if I am as free as you say I am.

You can try. How is that working out for you? Your original comment attempting to police language was flagged and died, looks to me like you were politely shown the door.

Flag away.

The comment police are stopping me from "doing what I want"?

Gosh.

Anything literally goes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Girl_(song)

I am aware that groaning about incorrect usage of literally is a meme but that seems to also require being wrong about the usage being incorrect.

English is a beautiful language and adding junk words to it is unnecessary.

Keep your headcannon and use your imagination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_2040

> It is the year 2040, all environmental disasters and the economic Resource Wars from the early 21st century have decimated the fragile ecosystem balance of an Earth once teeming with life.

The first part of this episode is near identical to my mental picture of the "franchise wars:"

https://youtu.be/Kg8bPDGmhnU?si=MhzsBy83h8yTi6Ux&t=59

I'm surprised how easy it was for me to figure this out and find confirmation.

In SnowCrash, I think there were some subplots talking about the fighting was somewhat real between franchises.

And you could become a citizen of a franchise state.

Life imitates art, but it sucks at it.

From the movie Demolition Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlcDHlK_RoY

Also, Joe seemed genuinely interested in helping everyone, and didn't seem to neglect the needs of significant portions of the population to achieve some ideological goal or another.

Maybe there's such a thing as being too smart to have power.

That being said, it is a society who elected the smartest guy in the world president, and then when a smarter guy came along elected him as the successor.

When I watched the movie I laughed and thought it all ridiculous. I've since been shown that having well-intentioned, self-aware, cooperative people in government is probably more important than their intelligence.

IMO that is a depiction of some kind of meritocratic utopia - exactly the opposite of what we have, on all accounts mentioned above.

Now honestly it is just a goofy movie premise, and we should not look too far into it, but sometimes it is fun to go full nerd.

Although to be fair,some of that happened before Idiocracy came out.

With the public money used for sports stadiums, that element of the movie to have government sports teams is slowly coming true also.

Further, colleges receive public money but are not free to attend for most students. And I am not talking about "free" from the students perspective, I mean most would not be permitted to enroll if significant tuition dollars were not deposited (unlike public schools, for instance). Also, plenty of colleges are private but have NCAA teams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCsR_oSP2Q

I agree that it does wrongly depict poverty as a major indicator of intelligence.

Foe those who don't know - which included myself until about 30 seconds ago - this is a reference to the 1993 film Demolition Man.

Crazy times we live in.

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2011/02/04/pizza-war-leaves-mor...