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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 20 days ago

Society keeps changing the definition of normal words

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Society keeps changing the definition of normal words

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 20 days ago
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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    TIL grok is an actual word.

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      I recommend Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. It’s a pretty influential work of early science fiction.

      Mind you, it’s been like 30 years since I read any Heinlein. Not sure I’d feel the same way about his stuff now as late teen me did, but the many books of his I read definitely shaped a lot of my philosophy.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok

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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jAkplrZci0

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          LOL. That’s great. Yeah, it really doesn’t hold up. I think a lot of my enjoyment of Heinlein came from being a horny teen with a Christian upbringing seeing a different take on sexuality. Stranger in a Strange Land was one of the last of his I read and not my favourite. The Number of The Beast was the first one of his I read.

          Edit: Apparently I watched that video 6 years ago and left a comment. I’ve been a subscriber to that channel for a while.

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      It’s from Stranger In A Strange Land. Overly Sarcastic Productions has a great summary of that book on their channel

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