turns out the water heater for the floor above me is over my front door and was leaking

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/new-words-in-the-dictionary-march-2018

850 new words in just one quarter

That's like 3500 a year

10 Tim points says 600 of those are genders

http://mentalfloss.com/article/556420/25-new-words-merriam-webster-adding-dictionary-2018

Shown its utility eh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretation_Act_1850

OMG

Jesus

I hate that word.

We need those centrist donors.

Mansplain made its way into the dictionary at record speed, but when you type "gynocentrism", you will see that it gets a red squiggle, indicating that it's unrecognized.

Gynocentrism is a word that has existed since the 19th century.

How the hell did academia shift so far to the left

Which word makes it into the dictionary first?

It's ironic, though, because they reason why gynocentrism is not in the dictionary is an illustration of gynocentrism.

It's better not to upset the whammens.

Academia shifted to the left because we didn't care.

Most institutions shifted to the left, because the left tends to be more collective.

Collectives have an easier time taking over institutions.

You can see the same pattern among many corporations. Most of them were reasonably conservative and later shifted to the left, as they got nicer.

Another example are cities. Once they are nice and work well, it attracts other people who want to benefit from nice, clean spaces.

Or, take Europe for example.

You can also draw parallels with the Big Five personality traits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgIErTULONc

It shifted left cuz most research and development is government backed,

And conservatives said "fuck your funding, we want more business money"

Yes, that's another factor.

and banned research on account of it being "playing god" and "unethical"

^^

Oh, yes.

I actually hated the right wing BS in schools.

This is exactly why I am libertarian.

If you take away that power, neither extremes can take over institutions.

Before, we had right wing loons trying to push for Intelligent Design in schoosl.

Now we have left wing loons pushing drag queens to teach sex ed.

yes

authoritarian moral busybodies pushing their ridiculous beliefs

There is a simple but important lesson to be learnt here:

Kick out your fringes! Do not let them define your movement.

this is why i hate religion with a passion