Source unknown, some sites assign it to Oppressive Silence comics by Ethan Vincent. But that website in the corner is shady

  • korazail@lemmy.myserv.one
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    4 hours ago

    Fair enough. I haven’t read it, but I knew that the term is not new and figured out where it originated. My understanding of it was a neutral term that became slang.

    I’m tired of the right-wing taking ownership of terms/icons/etc and wanted to push back.

    In the service of not bringing politics where it isn’t wanted, I’ll stop there.

    I will continue to grok things, despite Heinlein’s positions or elon’s chatbot.

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      3 hours ago

      Fair enough fair enough, but the point of grok is that you can’t really grok grok as a human that grew up on Earth.

      Mahmoud:

      “‘Grok’ means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the process being observed—to merge, to blend, to intermarry, to lose personal identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us as color means to a blind man.”