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Zuckerberg also tried to push the whole "internet.org" thing in India and was absolutely lambasted by Indian people on his own Facebook page. It was beyond awesome to see 1000s of people piling on well-articulated condemnations of Zuck's cartoon-evil PR doublespeak.

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He is actually hated fervently by a large crowd that believes in various Covid conspiracy theories. Most any recent video of Gates on Youtube will have top comments that are along these lines.

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It's true that languages with case declensions (beyond the vestigial declined pronoun forms in English) would be less ambiguous in expressing that example sentence.

English is an analytic language, meaning that more information is conveyed through syntactic patterning involving closed classes of words like particles, prepositions, and articles. These words could be considered "overloaded" as you said, but for non-closed classes of words though, as far as I know English is not known to be more or less polysemic than other languages.

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> There's something that can feel distrustful about that in some scenarios.

That's prejudice. Alcohol makes people violent and out of control, more so than any other drug, and yet we're the ones that are untrustworthy?

> I'd encourage non-drinkers to at least learn to play along and have some beverage in their hand.

I'd encourage you to fuck off while I smoke a blunt and blow the smoke in your face.

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> Some social drinking can make things possible that I'm not even sure how to replicate without it, like getting people to actually open up and be real with one another.

You alcoholics are just too much. I'm a fucking crackhead and even I can see how pathetic this line of thinking is.

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That's exactly it.

My line is "no thanks, it's my least favorite drug"... you'll get some interesting reactions to that one.

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It reminds me of the Spanish word "paisa"...

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What's the point in reciprocity here?

"And if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you".