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Currently too tired to regain earlier rage levels.

But.

One of my textbooks. For a class I'm taking. Finally pulled it out and unwrapped it, today.

It.

Is not.

A book.

It's a bunch of hole punched looseleaf stuck inside some... cardboard, like, stuff. It's just. You realize. The sheer level of goddamn quality lack, that comes about. When they're not even binding the fucking things anymore. And that sensation. When you first flip the "book" open and half of it just... pulls away. "WTF is this shit?" you ask yourself, waving the first several chapters of the book around like party favors. "Who's frakkin' idea was this?" you wonder, gazing at it stupefied. And slowly... so slowly... "This engenders within me a burning need to strangle someone with capitalism manifested as a garrote of barbed wire. That is on fire. Whoever it was that did... this."  It was not a happy way to start the morning.

Not even going to talk about the pricing.

... apparently my comparison to smoke signaling was more apt that I thought.

Seriously, sarcasm font. It would solve so many problems.

Maybe we just need a font literally called "Sarcasm" so people will know to actually use it?

Clarity and concise writing, probably. Those are the two primary virtues of philosophy writing. One of the primary goals of the philosopher is to communicate their concepts as clearly and concisely as possible.

... it's just often on subjects that are difficult to communicate about with much of either virtue >_>

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But a government-appointed safety panel in its report last year said about 150,000 people were killed each year crossing train tracks in what officials describe as "unlawful trespassing".

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Only says 15,000, now. "Only".

So we keep using the bad choices until something better comes along or people get used to it. Either way's fine with me We need a pronoun to use when we've got no damn clue what gender people are, anyway. The internet would much appreciate it.

S'usually not really that hard to arrange your sentences to avoid ambiguity, though, and careful writing should read largely as smoothly with or without pronouns. Little more difficult, sure, but generally not much more of a challenge. It becomes more natural with practice, heh.

There was this fairly interesting piece of work I read a while back that identified the protagonist's gender like... twice, in something like 300k words of text. I got distracted part way through, iirc, so there may have been more after I stopped reading, but it took one missed early reference and said 300k words to hit the second and realize what the character's gender was... and I was mistaken the whole time. First person perspective, but still fairly impressive, ha.

Cheers, True! May future attempts go as well!

... in more minor happies, some days the absurdity of giant robot shows just goes down... so smooth. Been watching through GaoGaiGar. Fairly mediocre up to where I've watched, but... so silly, so often. Firing screwdrivers the size of a bus capable of bending space and time, robots that combine only to split apart as their major attack, little flying alien boy that constantly forgets he frakking fly... all sorts of great stuff, for a certain valuation of great.