Source unknown, some sites assign it to Oppressive Silence comics by Ethan Vincent. But that website in the corner is shady

  • korazail@lemmy.myserv.one
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    7 hours ago

    “Grok” way predates xitter and predates elon himself by a decade. It was coined by Heinlein in ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ and means ‘to understand fully’.

    Just because some ass-hat uses a word doesn’t immediately give it a negative connotation.

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      5 hours ago

      The boringly misogynistic screed about how you’re stupid if you aren’t an anarcho-capitalist into polyamory that became popular among nerdy misogynists because it was ahead of the curve on 70’s swinger culture?

      Yes, I’ve read it, and I’m aware, it’s a common pairing with his quasi-fascist work in Starship Troopers.

      It spent a hundred pages pondering the concept of words in an alien language that don’t necessarily translate to English!

      Wow!

      Big think!

      Don’t let the nerdy ancap incels have it!

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        Fair enough. I haven’t read it, but I knew that the term is not new and figured out where it originated. My understanding of it was a neutral term that became slang.

        I’m tired of the right-wing taking ownership of terms/icons/etc and wanted to push back.

        In the service of not bringing politics where it isn’t wanted, I’ll stop there.

        I will continue to grok things, despite Heinlein’s positions or elon’s chatbot.

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          Fair enough fair enough, but the point of grok is that you can’t really grok grok as a human that grew up on Earth.

          Mahmoud:

          “‘Grok’ means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the process being observed—to merge, to blend, to intermarry, to lose personal identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us as color means to a blind man.”