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  • Jobasha [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    No you are thinking of something else, a dialectic is a non-conductive material that can be polarized by an electric field.

    • RedDawn [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      No, that’s a dielectric. A dialectic is somebody who can’t eat much sugar because their body doesn’t produce enough insulin.

      • T34_69 [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        No, that's a diabetic. Easy to get them confused, but a dialectic is a glyph added to a letter to distinguish it from similar letters, i.e. ü vs. u.

        • thetaT [none/use name]
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          2 months ago

          No, that's a diacritic. Dialectics is the set of practices and ideas practiced by Scientologists, invented in 1950 by L. Ron Hubbard.

          • ProgAimerGirl [she/her, comrade/them]
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            2 months ago

            No, that's Dianetics. Dialectics are a type of computer hardware from the 90's that uses the telephone network to connect to the internet

        • heggs_bayer
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          2 months ago

          This is the first time I've ever seen an actually clever and funny pun comment chain.