• BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world
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    2 months ago

    Context specific definitions are the bane of my autistic existence. Figuring out context is a waste of brainpower that could be better used having anxiety over situations that aren’t going to happen.

    /Completely serious, but not quite as strongly as worded here.

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      2 months ago

      So I take it no one should mention that in astrophysics anything heavier than helium is a metal

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      2 months ago

      Yeah well, people aren’t computers and language always has multiple levels of ambiguity. I understand if that is difficult to grasp if you can’t understand it on an intuitive level like most people. On the other hand it’s not that hard to understand on an intellectual level.