Not a lecture about Palestine. A lecture about our government, and why people who are opposed to the protests because of bullshit like “they’re bringing foreign wars to our shores” are dipshits who at best just have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. At worst, they’re actively defending genocide. Either way, absolute deadshits.
That’s not you, I hope. Because up until now I had thought we were having a fairly cordial conversation. But that response…well, it doesn’t reflect well on you.
We certainly are; have you heard about chips and chips?
But within the English-speaking world, it’s the Americans who are the weird ones in this case. The poms, kiwis, and safas all use it the same as us, and I think Ireland does as well.
I have no desire to bring any foreign wars to our shores. Nor should you.
Depends on what you mean. If you mean literally, then yeah, duh.
If you mean bringing it up in Australia, well…we live in a global world. It’s important that we push our government to do the right thing. That means, at a bare minimum, not selling weapons directly to assist in wars of aggression and genocides overseas, and not inviting heads of state of genocidal regimes to be guests in our country. It also probably means sanctioning the countries responsible, or at least minimising trade with them where possible.
It certainly means not proactively speaking out as the first leader in the entire world to congratulate the genocidal regime and its closest fascist ally on their decision to invade yet another country. Realpolitik might be a thing that’s worth doing at times. But that could at the very least take the form of silence in such a situation, rather than active condemnation. Speaking out proactively in support of it is something every Australian should be ashamed of.
Pro Palestine protestors are not the people “bringing foreign wars to our shores”. The government did that a long time ago.
I’ve also never come across this specific one in written form, but this kinda thing happens all the time. I did it right there. “Kind of” becomes “kinda” in spoken English, and occasionally also when written. Also coulda, woulda, shoulda, mighta, musta, gonna, wanna, gotta, sorta. Watcha doin?
I dunno for certain, but imma guess you’ve probably seen or even used some of these before. It’s not exactly a whole nother language.
Sprite is lemonade. It’s probably the most popular brand. I’d guess 7up is the next most popular, but Schweppes could be up there too.
The thing that Americans call lemonade just doesn’t exist here. I’d probably call it, like, lemon juice or something, maybe? I’ve heard the term “cloudy lemonade” used, too.
M works well as an alternative to Mr/Ms/Mrs, but I don’t think it works well as an alternative to Sir/Ma’am.
Oh, well then “seriously, OP?” Though in this case the grammar issues are not as bad, because I expect professional media organisations to hold themselves to higher standards than randoms on the Internet.
Though it adds a layer because I hate when people editorialise headlines without it being clear that that’s what was done. It’s misleading and in this case was totally unnecessary, since the un-editorialised headline got the message across just fine.
The culture war has two sides as all wars do
Well, sure. But there are two sides to the Israel-Palestine war, or Russia-Ukraine. But in both cases, it’s one side choosing for the war to happen, and the other side defending its own right to exist against hostile imperialism and aggression. Two sides existing doesn’t mean two sides both share the blame.
I don’t ever ask someone’s pronouns, but I’m part of a community that happens to attract a fair few enbies and trans people. Without explicitly asking, I and my fellow longer-term members of the community make a very careful effort to get people’s pronouns right. Usually I make a judgment call based on how they present, and if I’m unsure I’ll use “they” until/unless corrected.
I think the important thing to remember is that the “culture war” we see exported from America is not people asking for or trying to use others’ preferred pronouns. The culture war is the idea that doing the aforementioned (which is really just one specific example of “treat others with kindness”…it’s not a big deal) is something to get angry about or to specifically avoid doing to make a political point. In other words, the culture war is not created by the left or by trans or gender nonconforming people; it’s a war invented by the bigoted right.
I know this isn’t the point, but ffs The Verge. “Add age verification to it is consoles”? Seriously?
I suspect that the thinking when he was appointed was that logistics was going to be key to Apple’s future success. And at the time, they also had a number of high profile creative people in other roles, though they have pretty much all moved on since. And if you look at their financial performance in the years since Cook took over—which is the board actually cares about—it’s hard to say that this was a bad approach.
and a journalist likely knows better than to open an archive send to them by a stranger without running a scanner on it first
Right, but nobody here is suggesting sending it to any journalists.
Oh damn, I was just about to reply to your reply to @fishface@piefed.social (which is literally directly above this comment, on my screen) suggesting exactly this. Glad that Piefed initially failed to register my clicking “reply”.
Cook’s expertise was in the logistics. He’s definitely not been a great leader for them putting out exciting products, but he’s the reason they’re so much less affected by things like global shipping crises or RAM prices exploding than many other companies are.
Ah, comics. Never change.
Or do. Actually please do. Let Peter Parker grow old and have a happy family, damn it!
First I’d start out by saying I don’t think money itself “only exists because people believe in” it. Rather, money itself is definitely a real thing, but it gains its value from people’s belief. Maybe you consider that semantics, but I would say we’re already deep in the weeds of semantics.
Anyway, money is inanimate. It can’t per se change people’s behaviour. We might occasionally metaphorically talk about it as though it does, but in reality it is, as you suggest, “people acting on their own based on their belief in money”.
No, Magneto is still canonically a victim of the Nazi regime. But he’s also canonically perpetually in his middle age/early old age. How? 🤷♂️ Don’t worry about it.
I’ve not seen that episode, but I’m guessing they use the word bubbler in it? That’s definitely what we call them in Australia. Or at least here in Brisbane where I’m from, and Bluey is set.
No it doesn’t. Not in the least.
It implies the comments you’re seeing are from people not into it, but the people who are into it simply won’t comment.
It says exactly nothing either way about you or any other specific person.