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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 hours ago

You not put the question in the post title? You can have more than 12 characters in the title...

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

Wouldn't want to accidentally grab a white kid in blackface /s

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

with the exception of two brief situationships I was in cus women suck.

This is part of the problem. You're blaming an entire gender because you ended up in situationships.

Even if those two women are 100% at fault, you're not just blaming women, but saying that all women "suck".

women don’t wanna be talked to for more than small talk

This is part of the problem. Why are you talking "to" women and not "with" them? What do these two different phrases ("talking to" and "talking with") look like? There's a huge difference.

Plus getting out is anxiety provoking

This is part of the problem. It's natural for some people to have anxiety. If you have the means, see if this can be treated by a specialist.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago

But if you interpret all the jokes as "things he wants to do"? Probably pretty good odds

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hah, I guess it lasted a long time. Pretty sure people in my school were saying it at least a decade prior

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I look closely at labels and quantities, etc...but I also look at quality, made-in-my-country-ness, etc.

I don't need anybody to buy my groceries. I might even politely decline because someone could use it more.

The other signs sound spot-on, though.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Dr Pepper. And Vanilla Coke!

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago

Being smart doesn't mean they know everything. They would probably get it if they read up on it, but not every gamer reads up on the health effects of a sedentary lifestyle, etc.

I get that people have different hobbies. My primary hobby is gaming. I'm introverted. I enjoy working remotely. I like my job, but I'd still quit if a passion project could support my life.

If I were stagnating by spending all of my time with hobbies and not improving myself or my future, I'd hope that someone would help snap me out of it.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

Or they're counting on mom and dad's money until the parents pass away. Could be in denial about how much time they have and how easy it would be to get a job when that time comes.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Colombian killed

Usually, sentences go noun-verb. So who did this Columbian kill?

Colombian killed in U.S.

Oh, a Columbian was killed. In the US, of all places! What happened?

Colombian killed in U.S. strike

Oh, weird. I wonder what kind of strike (maybe the government shutdown?) resulted in this Columbian getting killed.

Colombian killed in U.S. strike was on a fishing trip,

Oh, that doesn't make sense that there'd be a strike in the same place as a fishing trip. Wait, was he not in the US at all?

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Make Headlines Have Propositions/Articles Again! (or whatever grammatical components are necessary to make headlines easier to parse; less garden path-y)

Colombian WHO WAS killed in A U.S. [MILITARY?] strike was on a fishing trip, wife claims

 

One of the tricky things with English is that we often have words that can be combined to form different words.

Like greenhouse. It's a combination of green + house. But a greenhouse is something very different from a green house. Autocorrect may cause some people to make this mistake, but generally, the concepts are understood to be different.

On the other side of things, there's things like "alot" which is mistakenly used so commonly that my autocorrect didn't even care that I typed that (and it's not just because of the quotes!).

Then there are words like login, which as a noun is definitely one word, but as a verb, should almost definitely be two words ("log in to this website", but "this is my login for the website")...but "login" seems to be universally recognized as standard for a verb, even though we don't say loginned for the past tense (we still say "logged in").

And of course, there are other words that are commonly paired together that we don't often see with the space removed, like "Takecare", "Noway", or "Ofcourse". These could all be potential candidates for the "alot" treatment. What makes "alot" special?

So what causes "Please login to the website" to be "correct", but "I workout everyday" to be incorrect? (And maybe everyone is "wrong" about login, or everyone is right about "workout" and "everyday", and the compound word is an acceptable alternative to the versions with the space)

I feel like this would be better in an AskLinguists community here... maybe there's an active one that someone could point me to? But I'm still curious to see what people think

 

I know MediaBiasFactCheck is not a be-all-end-all to truth/bias in media, but I find it to be a useful resource.

It makes sense to downvote it in posts that have great discussion -- let the content rise up so people can have discussions with humans, sure.

But sometimes I see it getting downvoted when it's the only comment there. Which does nothing, unless a reader has rules that automatically hide downvoted comments (but a reader would be able to expand the comment anyways...so really no difference).

What's the point of downvoting? My only guess is that there's people who are salty about something it said about some source they like. Yet I don't see anyone providing an alternative to MediaBiasFactCheck...

 

Bananas are ridiculously cheap even up here in Canada, and they aren't grown anywhere near here. Yet a banana can grow, be harvested, be shipped, be stocked, and then be purchased by me for less than it'd cost to mail a letter across town. (Well, if I could buy a single banana maybe...or maybe that's not the best comparison, but I think you get my point)

Along the banana's journey, the farmer, the harvester, the shipper, the grocer, the clerk, and the cashier all (presumably) get paid. Yet a single banana is mere cents. If you didn't know any better, you might think a single banana should cost $10!

I'm presuming that this is because of some sort of exploitation somewhere down the line, or possibly loss-leading on the grocery store's side of things.

I'm wondering what other products like bananas are a lot cheaper than they "should" be (e.g., based on how far they have to travel, or how difficult they are to produce, or how much money we're saving "unethically").

I've heard that this applies to coffee and chocolate to varying extents, but I'm not certain.

Anyone know any others?

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