Companies don’t get tax breaks for their customers’ donations.
Companies don’t get tax breaks for their customers’ donations.
The irony of calling someone else pedantic after what you’ve done to this thread, when op only wanted to share a video they enjoyed. smdh
Men with vasectomies can still inseminate - it’s just that the semen doesn’t contain any sperm.
That pop “article” is like 300 words long, contains almost no information whatsoever, and every bit of info it does contain is also fully spelled out in the video I linked - that Edison wasn’t a single-minded visionary, but rather a ridiculously hard worker who worked collectively with his employees to create inventions scientifically.
The video also goes into detail about how he crafted a public persona to make sure his shop continued to have access to funding to keep up his inventing, and in any case, I’m not quite sure how that’s supposed to be the nail in the coffin for his reputation, since it was practically required for him to stay in business, and the inventions they came up with (or, better put, the ingenious, practical solutions to the problems they were trying to solve) were revolutionary.
Nothing in that article impugns Edison’s name whatsoever - if anything, it fully supports the picture of Edison put forward by the video I linked.
Also, Today I Found Out has a rating of “High - Least Biased” on Media Bias Fact Check https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/today-i-found-out/, so I think I’m just going to ignore your conspiracy-mongering about them.
Should be really easy for you to produce some of this evidence that he was a monster then.
This is false. Here’s an exhaustively researched 4.5 hour video on the topic if you’re interested in what Edison was really like (an incredibly hard worker who was much kinder to his employees than was usual for the time, and who changed inventing from an art into a science), and the by-all-accounts positive nature of his very brief working relationship with Tesla.
Edit: I am absolutely gobsmacked that this comment is getting hammered so hard in a science community of all places.
I guess the misinformation-fueled hate boner for Edison is just too strong for the truth.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Response to your edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
It seems that you nailed it.
Ah, yep, you’re absolutely right, it is “burglarize” that gets y’all riled up. That’s what I get for going off memory and not checking my sources. I’ve edited my comment above to point out the error.
Damn, Poe’s Law hittin this comment hard, and I can’t tell from the instance either.
Edit: oh Jesus, they were serious. Parody truly is dead. At least we get to publicly shame the stupid misandrist.
Oh wow, I’m feeling very whooshed at the moment. Sorry about that.
From your biased, subjective point of view that has nothing to do with the objective facts of language, maybe.
Nope, I can do this all day. Other fun examples of backformation off the top of my head are: “to burgle” from “burglar” (which the Brits still get mad about (note: this is incorrect, see conversation below)), originally from the Latin agent noun burglator from the verb burgare; and “cherry”, backformed from Old French cerise, which was reinterpreted as a plural (even though it wasn’t one), and then a new singular form was backformed. The same thing happened to “pea” (though that’s a native English word) - you can still see the original “pease” in the old nursery rhyme: “Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in a pot nine days old”.
“Edit” and “access” also weren’t originally verbs. Same with “babysit” and “eavesdrop”. Backformation and category changing are common and perfectly natural processes in English.
Edit: This isn’t directed at the OP of this comment chain, but I’m always surprised by the crazy amount of ignorant prescriptivism I see all over Lemmy. Like, I expected that shit on Reddit, but I thought we were better than that here, especially since literally the only real reason for prescriptivism is sowing class division and excluding people for not having access to the secret knowledge of “correct” (yuck!) grammar.
My thoughts exactly.
He’s not wrong
I agree, and I love your username.
Why can’t I, hold all these eggs?