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I'm not actually sure. I've always answered it at face value, but I'm not a native speaker. I've probably been committing a faux pas, like disagreeing with a British person when they say "lovely weather today".

Do you at least understand that you're very much in the minority in thinking that it's fine?

The Chinese for “how do you do” translates as “have you eaten yet?”

So you’re fine with a public transport system that’s the same speed as jogging? Or are you just arguing for the sake of arguing?

Bradford counts as its own race, regardless of skin pigmentation

not in a way that’s likely to result in significant harm

Yeah, I wish there was a word for scenarios that are technically racist, be we don't want to devalue the word by invoking it for stuff that your privileged ass can easily live with. It'd make all the MAGA word game bullshit slightly harder for them to pull off.

Ten years ago my position on piracy was broadly, "do it if you want, but don't act like you're justified or ethical".

Now I'm convinced piracy is more ethical than feeding these monsters.

I also don't consider it a change in my own values. It's a change in how fucking awful and in need of dismantling the Corporation has got.

“People started sending me articles of it taking 55 minutes, 60 minutes to go 10 kilometers,” he said.

We're not talking Bjornsson levels of athleticism for the comparison to work. Even beginner level runners can manage 10k in an hour. The 18 minutes he beat it by is not a small margin.

“This technology is so useful we’re going to force it on you every way we can think of”

And they still haven’t figured out how to stop Netflix from crashing 15 minutes into every other show I watch. First year I had it no problems. Then one day about two years ago, bam, unwatchable.

I should save this comments section for when I need examples of why social media should be banned. A ton of people being dicks to each other over whether they use a honey dripper or a teaspoon.

Meanwhile in the UK pedestrian deaths are down despite the number of miles walked increasing.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-pedestrian-factsheet-2024/reported-road-casualties-in-great-britain-pedestrian-factsheet-2024