• @[email protected]
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    -13 hours ago

    wow, i didn’t know words became immutable as soon as they’re added to wikipedia….
    or that monetary compensation is the only way to pay someone….

    fantabulous

    • @Feathercrown
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      13 hours ago

      Just because you dislike two things, you don’t have to lump them under the same definition. Language could evolve to consider registration-required sites to have a paywall, but that would be stupid and counter to similar usages of “pay”. People seem really eager to stretch negative definitions to include other things they dislike, but it’s not the word that makes something bad, it’s the thing itself. Two things can be different/distinct concepts and also be equally bad.

      • @[email protected]
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        02 hours ago

        just because you can’t understand things doesn’t mean you have to pretend i’m lumping things because i dislike them….

        “pay” has NEVER been limited to currency… you’re just myopically capitalist….

        • @Feathercrown
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          -12 hours ago

          And you jump to ad hominem as soon as you’re challenged. You should improve your conversation skills or you will flounder around and never correct inaccuracies in your beliefs. If you believe you do not have inaccuracies in your beliefs despite never changing them, you are wrong. Good luck.