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Are computers a social construct? What constitutes a computer?
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Are computers a social construct?

What constitutes a computer? Are brains computers? Are calculators computers? Is an atticus a computer? Is a phone a computer?

Race and gender are social constructs, why not computers?
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>>53885264
Ask Mozilla.
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>>53885264
Were you born this gay or did you slowly devole into faggotry as time went on?
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Abacus cool guy
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>>53885903

So you don't know then?
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>>53885264
I identify as a computer. I've been looking for a plastic surgeon to install gentoo on to my brain. I'm tired of running non-free software.
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>>53885264
atticus is a name dipship. you are thinking of abacus
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>>53885264
as hard as trying to get one definition of life
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>>53885264
I sexualu identify as a ThinkPad t60
Check your MacBook privilege
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>>53885903

He CHOOSES to be that gay because faggotry is a social construct.

Check your privilege cis shitlord!
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>>53885264

I hate you
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>>53885264
>he doesn't know what social construct means
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A computer is an object that performs logical and mathematical calculations in a sequencial manner. Most computers nowadays also store outputs for further use later on.
That's about it. Nice bait by the way, 7/10
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SHUT THE FUCK UP FAGGOT GO PUSH SHIT BUTT PLUNGER
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>Is an atticus a computer?
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>>53885264
computah is racis
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>>53885264
Brains process and store lots of data so in a way they're computational machines - but far beyond a standard computer.
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>>53889723
check your privileges
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>>53888617

Is hate a social construct?
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>>53886674
TFW brainOS isn't even open source
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>>53885264
>Are brains computers? Are calculators computers? Is an atticus a computer? Is a phone a computer?
depends who you ask, yes, sort of, and yes

whether something is a computer or not is as arbitrary as any other definition, but the term describes an actual, physical thing no matter how you define it. race and gender are made up categories that don't describe actual THINGS that exist.
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>>53887191
>implying it's not a privilege to be a thinkpad
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Anything that can be reduced to a Turing Machine
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>>53885264
Anything that has 2 states (on or off) and then save them to a memory is a computer.
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nice bait
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