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You engage with the skip button
You engage with the skip button
When is interrupting my viewing experience to show me an ad ever actually relevant?
Fuck, these days even in shows that are edited for commercials, they’ll ignore those breaks and just put ads wherever they feel like it
The bearings combined with the wrenches made me think, like, roboticist. So maybe they make fishing robots that double as sexbots?
No one was ever naturally inclined to fear or hate LGBTQ+ people. It’s nurture all the way down.
There’s no way that doesn’t get struck down though, right?
The small school I taught at said the pledge every day, but the principal did regularly announce to everyone present that they don’t have to say it (but they did have to be there for it)
There’s just a lot of anti trans stereotypes in media that I tolerated before. It’s a lot harder to turn a blind eye to it when people use the same misunderstandings to try and tell me I’m sick and confused and bad for just being myself these days
There are so many examples of anti trans sentiment in older comedy. Just about all of them hinging on the “you can always tell” myth and/or highlighting how obviously wrong and confused the poor trans people must be. For someone whose only exposure to trans people was that for a long time, I can’t begin to say how damaging and limiting that was.
Brake dust is pretty well-mitigated by EVs too, on account of regenerative breaking.
I think a large and important difference is the ease of back-room manufacturer. Anyone with a boiler can can make some alcohol, but vapes are rather more complicated, no? Cigarettes and other straight up smoking products would still be around, though.
Or, just, like,
“Pretty warm but I’m not complaining, you?”
You’re the one that brought units into it in your example. Maybe you’re the bad friend?
I mean if you need to be using precise temperature units just to have a conversation… Maybe find less particular friends?
You do know that you do it too, right? Even many words being spelled “correctly” and used “logically” have changed in meaningful ways. It might annoy when someone now says “I’m literally dying” after a joke, but once upon a time “incredible” meant “totally lacking credibility” and not “amazing”. Language changes. In French, you negate a verb by saying “not verb step”. Taken literally, it’s the same meaningless gibberish as “could of,” yet it’s good enough for l’Académie Française while “could of” is abhorrent? I get that it’s not how you’d like to communicate, and not how you’d like others to communicate with you, but it also isn’t inherently bad or undesirable, since clearly that is how many people communicate.
So communicate the way you prefer, and make it known that you’d prefer that. But also, don’t tell others they’re wrong for reasons that are, ultimately, just as arbitrary as theirs.
But that is what Randall’s talking about. People who often read and write with text speech and frequent misspellings and such actually score better at spelling and grammar tests. It’s not that they don’t know how to do better, it’s that they’re choosing not to. That’s how their audience communicates, so it’s how they do too.
Relevant xkcd. Sort of makes the opposite case, though.maybe you’re just not the one they want to be communicating with.
Solvent* then. Get them all under one umbrella
Where on the doll did the man page touch you?
It’s totally illegal right up until it suddenly isn’t squatting any more