Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoI have no fucking idea what the Dialectic is and I'm not in any hurry to learn.message-squaremessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up142file-text
arrow-up142message-squareI have no fucking idea what the Dialectic is and I'm not in any hurry to learn.Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDiuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·1 year agoIt’s when a drug makes you need to pee a lot
minus-squareJobasha [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 year agoNo you are thinking of something else, a dialectic is a non-conductive material that can be polarized by an electric field.
minus-squareRedDawn [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year agoNo, that’s a dielectric. A dialectic is somebody who can’t eat much sugar because their body doesn’t produce enough insulin.
minus-squareT34_69 [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoNo, that’s a diabetic. Easy to get them confused, but a dialectic is a glyph added to a letter to distinguish it from similar letters, i.e. ü vs. u.
minus-squarethetaT [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year agoNo, that’s a diacritic. Dialectics is the set of practices and ideas practiced by Scientologists, invented in 1950 by L. Ron Hubbard.
minus-squareProgAimerGirl [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoNo, that’s Dianetics. Dialectics are a type of computer hardware from the 90’s that uses the telephone network to connect to the internet
minus-squareheggs_bayer@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoThis is the first time I’ve ever seen an actually clever and funny pun comment chain.
It’s when a drug makes you need to pee a lot
No you are thinking of something else, a dialectic is a non-conductive material that can be polarized by an electric field.
No, that’s a dielectric. A dialectic is somebody who can’t eat much sugar because their body doesn’t produce enough insulin.
No, that’s a diabetic. Easy to get them confused, but a dialectic is a glyph added to a letter to distinguish it from similar letters, i.e. ü vs. u.
No, that’s a diacritic. Dialectics is the set of practices and ideas practiced by Scientologists, invented in 1950 by L. Ron Hubbard.
No, that’s Dianetics. Dialectics are a type of computer hardware from the 90’s that uses the telephone network to connect to the internet
This is the first time I’ve ever seen an actually clever and funny pun comment chain.