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I guess that would work. On that note, though, I don't think I've ever seen that meaning for "hot" outside of newspaper/magazine headlines. Or at least, I'd feel really weird using it.

Oh god, I don't want headlines about either spicy or sexually attractive dogs.

finlay wrote:I got the impression he made a typo

...yeah, that would make sense.

(in creek, numerals and some quantifiers that are typically a closed lexical class in other languages are pretty transparently verbal. verbs can do a lot of different things in creek, and a lot of things that other languages wouldn't consider particularly verby are expressed by verbs) That sounds i...

If anything, that one is misleading and zompist's is the one that has only one interpretation (even though "hot dogs" still tripped me initially).

Yeah, sexuality is fluid and there's no reason to adopt a label if you're not comfortable with it.

Plenty of asexuals are sex-repulsed, and I think fine with that? There are sometimes people who are just repressed or whatever who think they are asexual but turn out not to be, and some people, like Imralu, don't like being asexual, but that doesn't really have anything to do with being sex-repulsed.

I really don't see what the problem is with thinking some things are bad, which is basically what you all are saying, here. no one is speaking about empathy: you don't need empathy to figure out that your enemies are people who sincerely believe what they do, That is literally what empathy *means*. ...

That's because the South lost, and secession didn't succeed. You don't consider the CSA to be a separate country. Things could have worked out differently. The citizenry of the CSA certainly didn't support (much less choose) the policies which were imposed upon them at the end of the war. What does...

Nort, what is even the difference between 4 and 5? A wedding cake is a wedding cake. It's not like there's a lot of room for doing weird shit with a wedding cake to the point where it is somehow specifically "gay". I thought you were a sociologist. Don't you think it's important who holds the social...

You seem to be making a bunch of unwarranted assumptions about me. What gives you the idea that I'm not aware that if I had been raised in a different social context I'd have different opinions? I don't think I'm right because these happen to be the opinions I've always had, I've actually put though...

I see, this is where we redefine "conservative" and "liberal" to mean whatever the hell we want so we can call each other names. I'll leave you to it. I don't know what you think atheists even have to do with this, either.

Or is it only "untasteful hegemonic force" when we ask businesses to serve black people? No, it's generally untasteful hegemonic force when we violently ban the other from nonviolently exercising their beliefs for the purpose of making our beliefs the universally accepted view. This is, in this cas...

Sal, no one ever complains that they can't kick people out of their place of business because they are black, or women. Why is this different? they do, for a decade or two, and then they get used to it as increasingly the fewer and fewer folks who do get looked at with more and more suspicion. This...

From what I gather, towns are much closer together over there. Where I grew up, it wouldn't be reasonable to go to a different town for something like a cake, although that's different now that I'm in New England (or at least, this part of New England), and obviously it'd be different in a big city,...

If I said that was an argument against something that doesn't happen put forward as an argument against something real, would that clear it up for you?

I don't think you read Sal's post. I was addressing his complaint about, "It's particularly inevitable that passions will be raised in the case of artisans like bakers"... and the personal loss of liberty of artisans who are forced to create decorations that offend their artistic sensibilities. Thi...

This is what Sal said: And indeed their freedom more generally. Normally people have a right to decide their own actions - they can, for example, choose who they want to spend time with, do business with, etc. So, for example, if you're doing really well in a casino, they can ask you to leave, witho...

No one's saying the government should force anyone to sell specific services. I'm not sure why you think we should jump straight to shut the business down for a first infraction of something that's so easily fixable, either. If it was a safety issue that couldn't be fixed in a timely manner, then su...

It's all very well to say "vote with your wallet" or whatever the buzzword is. but it could be that that bakery is the only convenient one, or the only one that makes certain types of cakes, or the only one you like... and realistically, if you adopt that policy, enough bakeries will have discrimina...

Sal, no one ever complains that they can't kick people out of their place of business because they are black, or women. Why is this different?

Didn't Borges write about this?

Thanks, clawgrip, that's pretty interesting. I guess if writing direction can vary just based on aesthetics like that, the reason could just be something like it went through a phase where either LTR or RTL could be used (or boustrophedon starting in either direction), and someone influential starte...

Yeah, that could work, too. Isn't the Japanese LTR because of influence from Western alphabets? I was kind of hoping for a reason for this for a script mainly used to write the dominant global language, which might not be as influenced by other languages. Would primary horizontal <-> vertical be les...

It seems I've managed to remember my password.

I know Greek went from right-to-left -> boustrophedon -> left-to-right. Have other writing systems done something like this? Are there other ways/reasons writing direction might reverse? Why did Greek switch to/from boustrophedon?