That’d work, but Sagan opted for portable fax.
Or, and hear me out, you could say “portable fax” and be done with it. YOU are making it complicated by not being culturally acclimated to the timeframe when it was written. Everyone knew what faxes were, no explanation was necessary.
Portable fax: thing that sends and receives messages
Portable Fax IS how you describe SMS in the 80s.
I dont mean that your understanding is unimportant, but that you inherently understand what’s being described to a degree that to hear it described differently than you expect you reject what you hear in favor of assuming the folks in the 80s needed more than “portable fax” to understand what you are on about.
How would you describe SMS to people in the 80s?
Can you share context? Chompsky is pretty focused on US politics, and genocide elsewhere may be a “not my bad, man. I talk about US politics, and am not gonna spend time on a situations where the US isn’t involved” which would be a reasonable reason to avoid the topic, or were they “f those guys, the power behind it is anti american.”
The only info I can find is that he cagey about callkn something “genocide” in case its not the actual definition. Check his takes on the Uyghurs, he seems to want to be able to fully establish what’s occurring before labelling it genocide.
Virtue signaling. Its easy to look good running a nonprofit.
Read depot as despot and was like “now that’s an escalation!”
I love me some IPA, right up till you start adding adjectives… Hazy? Juicy? New England? West coast? No. Beer, hops, yum. Get the rest of that nonsense out of here. As a home brewer I refuse to get my Adjective IPA palate.
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Libertarian ideology at work. “Fuck you, I have money” or “I dont want poor gay or black people dying in the streets cause they are black or gay. I want them dying in the streets cause they’re poor.”