English would benefit from using tilde and other inflection marks, especially to help non natives predict syllable stress.

Having words from multiple languages integrated into English means it’s difficult to predict how words will be pronounced.

I had to do a re-read because my brain did an autocorrect

oi, fuck off

This happened to me when I signed up again to report a fraudster in my local area’s subreddit. I was instantly shaddowbanned, without any messages or warnings sent to me. I was unable to post or up/down vote. I contacted their ‘support’ over it and just got all my messages ignored, or maybe they weren’t even received.

Nokia N950 was the best

Yeah, but so is price gouging, layoffs, enshitification and shrinkflation.

It’s impossible to imagine that those in business are not idiots that don’t believe in DEI.

wait, so he’s saying that it’s censorship of leftist ideas that’s led to a rise in right-wing populism?

We know what it is to live free

Oh, yeah, like the protests in their universities. They were tolerated too, right?

bike lane? did you mean painted gutter?

and the dumb kids, unfortunately. I did a spot with some non-US teenagers, in a class recently. The topic was “name a person you admire and why”. Guess whose filthy name came up…

No, they don’t do that. They bring up one of the fundamental problems underlying everything, when you ask a question directly related to that said problem. You didn’t ask about the weather, you asked about corporate slop.

I don’t know if you’re being funny, or just oblivious, but you surely must see how some people could arrive at the opinion that adverts are the scourge of modern society?

Openly gay, but secretly a billionaire.

Dysfunctional American English

A bit much, like the artificially inflated prices of everything?

Nobody wants your sympathy, you selfish prick. Politicians will never change their minds, oligarchs will never change their minds. Begging selfish idiots on the internet to please consider changing their minds doesn’t work either. Direct action, it’s all anyone has left.

I think one difference it makes, to answer your question, is that unsubstantiated claims like this tend to spread, virus like. Especially when pedalled by presidents and official government agencies. Many governments handled the pandemic predictably awfully, but this false narrative can have dangerous consequences, too. I’m worried about the number of times I’ve seen ‘plandemic’ spoken about. It gives me the impression that simply through repetition the meme grew stronger. But now it’s being echoed by_official statespeople. _

people are likely to be as violent in most countries

no

national security

lol

Move beyond that obsession, towards what, exactly? Besides, it’s not as if this apparent laziness has stopped you getting stinking rich.