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Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by soulofmischief on Monday January 06, 2025 @03:50PM (#42615613)
People can use whatever words they please. Never mistake yourself to be the arbiter of language, which is ever evolving.
Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by reaperducer on Monday January 06, 2025 @04:58PM (#42616433)
Never mistake yourself to be the arbiter of language

Isn't that exactly what you just did?

Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by zem on Monday January 06, 2025 @06:50PM (#42617510)
"you're not the boss of me" does not mean "i am the boss"!
Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by mrayycombi on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:15PM (#42630508)
If I am not the boss of you, and you aren't the boss, then someone else is the boss of you.

Did I miss something?

Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by zem on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:32PM (#42630601)
yeah - the need for a boss in the first place. there simply isn't one.
Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by mrayycombi on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @07:26PM (#42640182)
Bosses exist because they will themselves into it. Bosses aren't invented by rational necessity.

Bosses make themselves boss.

There's no need for anarchism either.

Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by soulofmischief on Thursday January 09, 2025 @02:30AM (#42642678)
If zem and I were in a room by ourselves, I don't think either of us would try to be "boss". Only once someone who supports such power structures, such as yourself, enters the picture, do we have to start protecting ourselves against such people. Have you read Lord of the Flies?
Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by mrayycombi on Thursday January 09, 2025 @06:21AM (#42644162)
You may be right. You and Zem can live on an island in your anarchist utopia.

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

You have a job, don't you?

Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by soulofmischief on Thursday January 09, 2025 @06:42AM (#42644293)
I'm self-employed, and the existence of a top-down hierarchical power structure is not evidence that one is necessary. We're also now several straw mans away from the original argument.
Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by mrayycombi on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:13PM (#42662364)
I assert that necessity is self created.

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.

Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by soulofmischief on Saturday January 11, 2025 @11:33AM (#42666950)
There is nothing legitimate or persuasive about the flawed argument you're presenting.
Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by Brian_K_White on Monday January 06, 2025 @09:44PM (#42618604)
nope
Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by mrayycombi on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @08:49PM (#42630035)
We all got a$$holes and opinions and most of them stink.

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.

Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by soulofmischief on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @11:38PM (#42630966)
"Other people can do what they want" is not an opinion, it's a fact of life. You can deal with it, or you can get so upset that you try to physically stop them. Is that something you want to do over the use of language?

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.

Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by mrayycombi on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @07:22PM (#42640163)
People cant do what they want. What planet are you on?

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.

Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by soulofmischief on Thursday January 09, 2025 @02:35AM (#42642702)
> People cant do what they want. What planet are you on?

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.

Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by mrayycombi on Thursday January 09, 2025 @06:16AM (#42644137)
Your actions are controlled by their consequences, not cops.

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".

Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by soulofmischief on Thursday January 09, 2025 @06:39AM (#42644275)
All of that is so wildly off base and off-topic from the argument at hand: People can do what they want unless you or someone else physically stops them.

> 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.

Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by mrayycombi on Saturday January 11, 2025 @09:16AM (#42666019)
People gaming the comment system concerns me not at all.

Flag away.

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

Gosh.

Re:3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright... by soulofmischief on Saturday January 11, 2025 @11:32AM (#42666949)
It's not being gamed, the community just doesn't care for what you have to say when it's policing other people. "You can't tell me not to tell people no because then you'd be telling me no" is not a good take. You need to step back and learn from this.