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If you’re not vexed by #WordsMeanThings, then I have bad news: you mind has been colonized and you’ve bent the subconscious knee.
The brilliance of index funds is “set-it-and-forget-it” and creepy weirdos found the zero-day vulnerability.
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.ioIf you love Elon or SpaceX? I love that for you! Seriously! I let people enjoy things. I like rockets too!
And if you can't move your money away? Also OK! Not everyone has agency or ability to move all cash.
But if a few mouse clicks could align your money with your morals? I would consider that.
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So the word’s root is basically “to shake or carry violently,” which evolved into “to harass or disturb,” and then into today’s “to annoy or trouble.”
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Over time, the word narrowed toward the common modern meaning: to irritate, bother, or make someone uneasy.
Societally, vex reflects a very old idea: trouble as something that actively presses on a person, not merely a passing annoyance.
That is why related forms like vexation and vexatious often carry a stronger sense of sustained annoyance, distress, or obstruction than a casual “annoy.”
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In Latin, vexare is connected to vehere, “to carry, convey,” and ultimately to the Proto-Indo-European root wegh-, meaning “to go, move, transport in a vehicle.”
That older root is why some etymologists describe the original image behind vex as something being jolted, shaken, or driven about.
The earliest English uses were not just emotional; they included “upset,” “anger,” “distress,” and even legal or physical harassment.
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“Vex” comes from a Latin root that originally meant physical shaking or tossing, then broadened into “harass, trouble, annoy,” and finally into the modern sense of mental irritation or distress. It entered English through Old French in the late 14th to early 15th century.
The word traces this path: Latin vexare → Old French vexer → Middle English vexen → modern English vex.
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Let it vex.
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GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.socialSo. If these rich white landowners -- many of whom owned slaves -- advocated this idea, this ideal, while not actually striving to make it in their own lives, does that mean the idea or the ideal are bad?
This vexing question is, allow me to speak freely, a vexing fucking question.
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@PeterLG so, non-leaders
Decisions are made by leaders who show up, read the room, know what time it is, and understand the assignment.
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