2010, simply because of how english works.

If you say 2001 as twenty one, it’s confusing. Same goes all the way up to “twenty nine”.

And it’s more garbled and slower to say “twenty oh one” vs “two thousand one”, especially if you’re speaking quickly.

“Twenty ten” and up, however, starts making sense as a different piece of information and can be used easily.

Lotta them exist. Always have and always will. This is how you begin the “have and have not” groups.

To your first point, why? You know what the Internet is like outside the fediverse right?

To your second, I guess you can. Don’t know what it has to do with the subject at hand

Idk, you tell me. I’m suggesting that scarce resources not owned by anyone will get used by those who take it. This is a fact. What then? Is it bad? Is it ok? Pretending it’s not a thing is to deny reality and all of human/life history

That’s the thing though: someone will. That’s what regulations, ownership (collective or individual), and laws are for. That’s why it’s not a simple thing.

What if one person comes in and takes it all? Don’t even need companies, just individuals.

That’s the tragedy of the commons.

I mean, yeah…one of them is an attempt at a solution for the tragedy. It’s a logical step to protect things from others ruining it by saying it’s yours.

Presumably because everyone assumes the tragedy of the commons will happen as it always does. And, little red hen, there’s a sense that if one person does the work, they are owed the fruits of their labor

Through their paws for one, and when they lick their coats, the saliva acts like sweat and cools them down as it evaporates. And if it’s really bad, they pant.

Once we can assume the “common person” is well versed in post structuralism, we can have that chat. Until then, I’m good with a pragmatic approach to linguistics.

Things have meaning. In the process of expanding the meaning, the meaning is made less pointed. If it has less of a point, it becomes broad (or diluted). So to make the original point, one must find new words, since the original definition has been so watered down and broadened.

The person for getting in the way, obviously