Value in the abstract sense of "desirable thing" not necessarily monetary.
If I'm having a conversation within and ask them about a thing, I'd much rather an "I don't know" than whatever the plagiarism engine's facsimile of an opinion is.
Lot of people have strong opinions about ai, many of them very bad. Because what should be a novelty or maybe a part of a more sophisticated system instead of the half assed implementation that it currently is. At the low low price of stealing from artists and fucking the environment.
Ok, we pick a South American country that's dirt cheap and scrounge the cash to get there. And let's say to hell with visas and assorted fees as a factor because a guy on the Internet told me that he did it almost a decade ago and it was totally cheap bro.
What language do they speak there? I'm not so arrogant as to assume Spanish, so I'm gonna need to learn that. I'll have to rehome my cats cause I'll bet getting them there with us isn't likely. Quit my job, though that was always going to happen. Find a new job and hope that refugees can get and engineering job over a citizen because I've got fuck all in other skills and while not the fattest American around, my cardio game is weak and manual labor would be a transition. How's the healthcare? Probably better than the US to be fair, but do they have my spouse's medications, one of which will cause seizures if discontinued suddenly.
All that in addition to whatever it costs now. Please continue to tell me how easy it is.
It's unfortunate. Other than you loving hate speech apparently, your comment history indicates we agree on quite a bit, if perhaps not to the same level of passion.
It's just very suddenly aggressive. I'm very confused where the turn happened and where the poorly founded accusations of lying enter. What statement did I intentionally misrepresent?
I mean, I dumped a lot of effort into defending against the use of a slur. Fascists have a tendency to be pro-slur in general. Your stance is... shaky.
This has taken such a strange turn. At the risk of encouraging the pigeon, you do realize that deception, by definition, requires an intent to deceive? At worst I'm just wrong.
I don't understand your affinity for hate speech nor why you defend it to the point of apparent delusion, but you might want to ask a therapist about that.
Glad we could agree even if you are coming from a point of bad faith now.
Ah pigeon chess. Delightful.
You say calling it a slur was not lie, but it was.
I'm still confused. What did I misrepresent? Calling it a slur was a lie? That's my entire thesis that I have backed at every step.
The way it was used was simply not a slur.
I contend otherwise. Extensively. With logic and rationale that you refuse to engage with.
I apologize if you feel I have not conceded to any of your points.
You don't have to concede. I expect you won't. I'd like you to engage with me rather than put words in my mouth and ignore what you find inconvenient, though even that is out of what I have control over. I've specifically marked why I have dismissed some of your arguments (mostly red herring) while you've relied on the tried and true 'nuh uh' strategy.
I listed three things that, if refuted directly, I would gladly yield. You have ignored this condition that is the basis of having any sort of debate and instead decided that you have won by some metric that you have come up with. Or would you like to babble about context while ignoring it more?
So you admit that slurs are not always slurs and context matter. This context was missing for you to call it a slur to begin with. There was no mentally delayed person being called a retard. Glad we can agree your original comment was half-baked.
That's quite a few words you shoved in my mouth. I, at no point, said slurs are not always slurs. I acknowledged context matters as a general statement and then posed the context that I believe matters. I, in fact, positively asserted that history, usage, and present recognition by relevant advocacy groups as being relevant context to define it as a slur. You have yet to acknowledge any of those points. I'll happily yield if you can name why those three things are irrelevant.
What are you left with again? Oh yes a lie about a slur and a false usage of punching down.
Lie? You've lost me on that one. I hold that the usage was offensive even if it does not necessarily meet the definition of 'punching down' specifically. The bat is still harmed when it strikes the baseball.
Stop bloviating, this is the beginning and end of it.
Is it? You have ignored my points multiple times while I have endeavored to engage with yours. I should know better than to engage with bad faith. Alas.
Black people are not a monolith and I'd be dead in the street if I said that in the wrong neighborhood. This is also irrelevant as that is more about reclamation than the status as a slur (which it is). It would matter if the original usage was performed by one who was disabled, for which we have no evidence nor reason to assume.
We collectively as a society stopped using retardation as a medical diagnosis. The rest of what you say is nonsense.
So history, the appeals of advocacy groups, the direct rejection of what you say by someone who would have been called such not long enough ago is irrelevant? Context only matters when it helps you I guess?
Glad you can admit the punching down was nonsense.
Linguistic imprecision is hardly the most salient point. My inability to name a better term for the wrong done does not remove the wrong.
Speaking of spirals, I just said it was a dumb take because you forgot context and added in some bullshit about punching down. This is objectively true so I am not sure why you need to keep going on and on.
I've listed off context multiple times. You have failed to refute any of it.
You're rather arrogant to aspire to objective truth. Even I'm not doing that and I'm having trouble breathing from my high horse. Sociology and linguistics are not the land of objective truth. It speaks ill of your reasoning abilities that you believe that is what you're doing.
Edit: I continue because you haven't convinced me. Do so and I'll yield.
Wet socks is a "I don't care what is happening, I want to go home now" condition for me.