I say weird shit and half the time I actually believe it.

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  • The word trans means across, or on the other side, and gress once again would mean step, so to transgress is basically to cross the line, right?

    I did a quick search, but there isn’t really a word to describe the people that don’t cross the line.

    The opposite of the prefix trans is the prefix cis, which means “on the same side”


  • There is an etymology word joke that says something along the lines of, “if “pro” is the opposite of “con”, then is the opposite of “congress” “progress”?”

    And if you don’t know etymology, then that seems to make sense.

    When you break down the word Congress, you get the prefix con and the root word gress, con means with, and gress means step, so it means to step with or to walk with.

    The opposite of walking with someone is to walk apart from someone, so, the actual opposite of congress would be digress, and the opposite of progress would be regress.

    Etymology is great at ruining jokes, but it’s also great at helping you understand what words mean and why they mean them.





  • Yeah, isn’t that what everyone wants?

    A website where you talk to people and a robot with no oversight shows up and changes what you say, or silences you, or prevents you from talking to certain people.

    At the same time though, I don’t care if billionaires play rock and sock em robots with companies. It just kind of sucks for the people that work at those companies, being tools of a game for rich people to play.









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    3 months ago

    The thing about open-source software is that if you fork the software, then your fork can have its own rules.

    You can even make the fork of the software fully closed source except for the open source software that you used to originally develop it.

    You can sell open source software as if it were proprietary.

    You can basically do anything you want with it as long as you respect the original source from the code that you have taken.

    Once the software is no longer in Mozilla’s hands, then Mozilla’s portion of the license no longer applies.