Or crosswalks, or bicycles

It’s hilarious but it shouldn’t. I didn’t know

I thought so too, I’d be upset if he became president of the world

I don’t live in America, I never had American citizenship, nor family or relatives or any responsibility to vote in your mess guys. Still my president you say?

Remember that people are often stupid, not evil. You can do pretty awful things if you’re dumb enough. Someone’s razor, forgot who’s

I can’t tell if this is real or not. Not my president so I don’t keep up with everything he does

Ok sealion. We are gonna use loose as a verb the way you want it, not the way English speakers want it. You win. Go loose your social ties if it makes sense to you

We’re discussing the use of lose and loose in particular, not other words; and in the specific context of the text in this meme. Just because you can think of plenty of examples of social networks that have loose structures (and so can I, and most people) doesn’t mean it’s okay to use the word any way you feel is right for you.

Or in other words, a sentence can be structurally sound but be invalid in terms of cultural convention and language use. And in such a case, it’s still deemed to be grammatically incorrect - whether it’s misspelling or misusing of the word.

But you have the right to disagree all you want.

I disagree:

The phrase ‘tight-knit community’ exists, and is fairly commonly used.

We were not discussing ‘tight-knit’

A ‘loose-knit community’ would have…

Yes, would have. I’ve never heard the term, perhaps it exists. But it’s used as an adjective here, not a verb as in our case. Point irrelevant.

A social network is often mathematically/academically/professionally described as a bunch of points, clustered, with connections between them.

Even the very word ‘network’ is etymylogically derived from a net, an interwoven mesh.

You very much can literally loosen or tighten a net, make one that is more pourous or more dense in terms of threads in any given surface area.

Hey there ya go, even Threads is an actual name for a social network.

I think the metaphor or analogy of social networks being described by other terms that literally apply to an actual net or fabric is… actually incredibly common.

All this is irrelevant. Of course you can describe loose networks. Or meshes. Or nets. Note loose is an adjective in all of these cases, again. Not the usage we were originally discussing.

… You’ve never heard a person being described as having 'loose ties to (other person/group)?

Yeah I’ve heard. Adjective again.

Have you never watched any kind of detective show, a ‘stop the terrorists’ political action thriller?

Yes, I have. Irrelevant though.

Okay. Because I also remember signing this bat, I remember it was almost clear when I signed it and I asked what was going on and the bat signature collector said once the bat is full of signatures, they coat it with a layer of white paint and keep adding signatures to it.

So now that you know the total surface of your bat’s signatures, in order to calculate how many layers of signatures you got, you have to divide this total surface by the surface of the bat, keeping in mind that there is a slight offset because each layer is just slightly larger in surface area than the previous one (very much like a tree’s rings).

Apparently at its very core the bat is just a thin rod, the shape you see is all made of layers and layers of signatures. It was absolutely not that thick when I signed it. Glad to see they completed it, shame to see most people forgot they ever signed it.

Loosen ties means to make cords or ties less tight. It’s a physical thing. For example, with your shoestrings, you can loosen these ties if they happen to be too tight. You can also lose your shoestrings, meaning you lost them and don’t know where they are anymore.

You don’t talk about emotional or social ties like that. You can lose social ties though, in the sense of loss. But you don’t loose social ties, it doesn’t make sense. That’s the difference between the two words.

The right word is “losing”, one O, not two. They have different meanings

Of course - never watched any of them. To be honest y also didn’t watch scrubs either but I saw too many ads about their episodes back in the pre streaming era so I recognize some of the cast. Thanks

Ok the only two I recognize are also the ones that have the show name on them. What about the other 7?

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TIL this salad has nothing to do with Caesar of Rome

No, OP is just a visual thinker

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How dare you!

Same…

…wha…? Calvin precedes Loss, amirite? Has this been altered or…?

And you could bring your kids, too, even celebrate birthdays