https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb#Thumb_and_fingers
Colloquially, for many (most?) English speakers, the thumb is a finger:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=4+fingers%2C5+...
A strawberry is a berry. I don't care if biologists or botanists or whoever use a narrower technical definition in their research papers. The colloquial definition is just as valid. Prescriptivism-by-authority can take a hike. Yes, I will die on this hill.
Edit: this is a 1984 reference for those who aren’t familiar with that book or haven’t read it.
There is no user "CyberRabbit" by the way, maybe dang would rename your account if you ask him?
Edit: oh. Likely a 1984 reference. Never mind now. Leaving comment as it is though
I parsed his profile line as a disambiguation.
Something like:
My handle is not cyber-"rabbi", so ignore the religious overtones.
I intended "rabbit" and did it wrong. The UI has this irritating quirk, but I'm not motivated to enough to really fix it.
Not that important.
You sticking to your guns and not using cookies or JS shows me your principles are legit.
Normally and what my comment was referencing, are people who tout one abnormal or specific thing they do or don’t do. Like how awful FB or one of its properties are. While they happily go on every other data and privacy invading site/company.
I don’t know if I would say I “refuse” to use email. I simply opt not to because I am privacy conscious. I also do not browse the web with cookies or JavaScript enabled. If that’s “bizarre” to you well then I guess I am a bizarre person but I deserve a bare minimum of respect just as all humans do.
> Publicly complaining about the consequences of that decision is another layer of strange behavior.
I literally never complained about anything. Someone else initiated a question at me about my communication with dang and I shared the results of that communication. I am not bothered at all by not being able to request a name change nor have I ever expressed resentment towards anyone for not being able to request a name change. My screen name is not very important to me. I feel like I am being unfairly judged here.
It hasn’t been a second thought of that being something to point out.
However I guess in an in person situation, it may come up more as a “thin”