• scintilla@crust.piefed.social
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        What kind of garbage definition is that lmao. Not your fault I know you didn’t write the fucking dictionary but what the hell. Here is one that doesn’t use its own fucking root to define itself.

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          If you click into it and read right through, you may find it a more sensible and robust definition than the cambridge one with all its “gooder” and “badder”. ;)

          Neither are great though.

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            23 hours ago

            Definition 2 is the closest to the way that relatively is used in most speech and it still uses “relation” in its definition. I don’t love the Cambridge one but it is better than the MW one.

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            Oh shit you weren’t just being an asshole throwing out definitions to prove a point, my bad for assuming the worst.

            He [Gabe] is relatively [in comparison to other billionaires] down to earth.

            Its not a high bar but he does pass it especially if you’re only comparing to the more well known billionaires.

            Some people can and have interpreted me calling their source bad a personal call out. I’ve done that before, honestly it’s not a great thing to do but emotions exist.

            • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.social
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              1. Why do folks assume I want to be an asshole in a community created to be silly and merry‽

              I am an anarchist, for goodness gracious. I initialize all my conversations in neutrality until proven otherwise.

              When I am in this community, I comprehend folks come here jovially, with the intent to entertain.

              He [Gabe] is relatively [in comparison to other billionaires] down to earth.

              Yeah HOW? He is a scumbag authoritarian. He sents talent to deathcamps. He drowns people in the Pacific. HOW does that compare to other “down to Earth” bourgeois oppressors?