Actually the girl’s name is Freda, her mother calls her name when she escapes the raided village
Actually the girl’s name is Freda, her mother calls her name when she escapes the raided village
If you want to understand the personality of your son, hand him a stick and then watch what his imagination transforms it into
Its easier for people to have a tailor tape for measuring rather that a caliper, so I think 13 might be the girth.
13÷π = ~4.13cm diameter (excluding major irregularities)
I agree with you that the problem is in our educational system: for the most use cases, LibreOffice is just as good as MS office, meaning that they’re both equally crappy. But since the former is free (as in freedom and as in beer) that should be the standard in schools and universities.
The good thing is that movements to bring FOSS in public administration and schools are starting to battle, and already had some victories, most notably in Germany and France
“Whataboutism” is a recently-popularized term that doesn’t have a concrete definition yet
It’s neither recent nor interpretable XD. It was coniated by a journalist in the '70s with the specific meaning I’m telling you. The origin is actually interesting.
I’ll give you that it is more frequent nowadays, since it is an escamotage that populist groups use a lot and they are rising all around the world.
He doesn’t sound like a great debate opponent, but to be fair, neither do you
If you are both ignorant and arrogant I’m the worst debate opponent on the fucking planet and I will just troll you into the ground. Expecially with people from my father’s generation, with their “I’m always right” attitude. It doesn’t matter how well informed/educated you might be, they are never receptive and never will. So if I’m forced to argue with them, I make sure I’m the one having fun.
In any other context (luckily the majority) I’m pretty chill and I’ve actually been told by many people to be a really good talker/debater.
The purpose of “whataboutism” is to point out hypocrisy in your debate opponent’s position.
No, it is not. It would be if the argument was, for example, “which candidate is better” or “who should I vote for”. But that wouldn’t be “whataboutism” either, it would be just “point out hypocrisy”.
If we are talking about just that single person (not even in a political way) and you bring up someone else just to deviate the attention, that is whataboutism and it’s poison for the mind.
Rather than respond to that and have a reasonable conversation…
People that use this mechanism don’t whant to have a “reasonable conversation”, they just want to be right at all cost, even by sabotaging the debate. If you want to engage with them feel free to waste your time. I value mine more than that.
Plus keeping the argument going will make relationships worse: I voluntarely crash arguments like that with my father because yes, I do think that he’s a dumb cunt, but at the end of the day I still want to say him “I love you nonetheless”.
“but I have already learned Photoshop workflow…”
- my friend that uses it only to make memes
I might be a little too basic, but I’m sticking with Sharknado
Is your relative an Instagram influencer?
“Whataboutism”, or if you are unfamiliar with the term:
“The act or practice of responding to an accusation of wrongdoing by claiming that an offense committed by another is similar or worse”
People that use this mechanism are “poorly educated” and unable to hold a conversation and they should just be mocked by whatabouting even harder, so they can maybe understand that they’re dumb and that’s not how you should debate.
Example of the last argument I had recently with my dumb c*nt father:
Yep.
And since the scene wasn’t even scripted in the books, it looks like something Peter Jackson added on purpose to pass the test in the most comical way