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  • There are more empty homes than homeless people. There is no housing shortage, it’s a myth. Put benches, public transport, walkable infrastructure, bike infrastructure, etc everywhere. And then when those dastardly evil homeless people show up and dare to use your person-centric infrastructure to exist, that’s when you ambush them with a house. What better way to punish them than to strip them of their homeless identity? We’ll brutally steal their homelessness from them, feed them, clothe them, and then they won’t feel any need to sleep on our nice benches ever again.

    Does this framing help you understand or does it have to actually involve violence against the downtrodden for you to be on board?






  • BlackDragon@slrpnk.nettoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHappy Birthday
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    24 days ago

    Exactly! In English! Which this person does not know!

    You seem to be getting pretty confused here. We’re talking about the literal meanings, that is to say the ones that someone who doesn’t have a strong grasp of English should know. Metaphors and idioms and so on are famously difficult for those without a strong grasp on the language, but I am arguing that this is not one of those. This is a phrase with a straightforward literal meaning, unlike such phrases as “pulling your leg.”


  • BlackDragon@slrpnk.nettoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHappy Birthday
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    24 days ago

    Or the number of days since their birth? That’s the simpler explanation.

    “Those apples are numbered” = “we know how many apples there are right now”

    No, that does not make equal literal sense to what I said. Because days that are in the past are gone, we don’t have them anymore. We refer to moving through time as “killing” time or as “losing” time, in English we don’t tend to think of the past as something we currently have. The future is something we have or will have, the past is something we had and no longer have.




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    24 days ago

    It means that you can place a specific number on the number of days left in a person’s life? I’m not sure I understand the question because the meaning of this one is pretty easy to see. Normally it is unclear when your death will be, but if someone tells you that your days are numbered they are implying that they possess the exact knowledge of what number of days you have left to live. They don’t usually mean that literally but the literal meaning is pretty clear.