unnamednewbie13
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Stop correcting other people’s grammar
https://www.educationviews.org/stop-cor … s-grammar/

Another one of these, from 2019. I see these confessions from time to time. "I was one of those people until I went to college and learned that I knew far less than I thought I did." I've been thinking about that sort of thing in the wake of what I perceive is a bump in ever-present grammar nazis on social media platforms. Someone makes a minor typo or some sort of mistake, and five people reply with unsolicited corrections. Amazing contributions, not.

Give me linguistic freedom, or give me heart death.
uziq
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nobel peace prize for russian journalists working for opposition/independent newspapers (many of whom's journalists have been murdered).

i await shahter's response telling us that, ackshually, no one understands russia! we have putin all wrong!
unnamednewbie13
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I haven't been hearing a whole lot from a Russian buddy on Steam about coronavirus over there, and I haven't really pressed. Normally he takes pride in his country and enjoys talking about it in a positive light. I think the last thing he had to say about covid-19 in Russia was "not good, my friend."
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
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So tech giants are going to pay 15% tax, on 25% of their profits, on profits above a 10% profit margin.

So thats well under a 4% tax rate when they should be paying 20-30% corporate tax.

Who comes up with this stuff?
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
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Ethiopia declared a state of emergency on Tuesday and called on its citizens to pick up arms and prepare to defend the capital as rebel forces from the northern region of Tigray pressed south toward the city following the capture of two key towns.

The Tigrayans, who have been fighting the government for the past year, have joined forces with another rebel group as they advance on the capital, Addis Ababa. Foreign officials monitoring the fighting said there were signs that several Ethiopian Army units had collapsed or retreated.
Huh? How did they fuck this up?
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
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We should have a pop concert and send them food, that'll fix it, it worked before.

https://www.nme.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/PAliveaidbob130710-1.jpg
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uziq
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very strange moral compass when you think gloating over famine and drought is a good thing.

i suppose it’s lost on you that your own consumption and living patterns will overwhelmingly contribute to more famine, more drought, more resource scarcity and hence more conflict in the equatorial regions.

‘keep them immigrants out of my country! i want to keep burning up the world’s resources but keep those afflicted black people on an island! with the lepers!’
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
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Whatever we do they won't stop fighting, they don' stop fighting when they have everything and are in a first world country.
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
uziq
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amazing, a blanket historical generalisation with zero analysis, zero nuance, zero actual attention paid to the dynamics of the region.

you do realise that a similarly blinkered african could look at the constant centuries of european warfare, leading right up to the most recent shameful debacles in the middle east, and similarly form the trite conclusion 'they don't stop fighting'.

what does your last comment even mean? and what does it have to do with the instability in ethiopia? are there street-level irruptions of violence between ethiopians in first-world countries? where?
Mekstizzle
WALKER
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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Stop correcting other people’s grammar
https://www.educationviews.org/stop-cor … s-grammar/

Another one of these, from 2019. I see these confessions from time to time. "I was one of those people until I went to college and learned that I knew far less than I thought I did." I've been thinking about that sort of thing in the wake of what I perceive is a bump in ever-present grammar nazis on social media platforms. Someone makes a minor typo or some sort of mistake, and five people reply with unsolicited corrections. Amazing contributions, not.

Give me linguistic freedom, or give me heart death.
Uzique really should go back to using capital letters though
uziq
Member
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lower case was good enough for e. e. cummings. it’s good enough for me.
DesertFox-
The very model of a modern major general
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Man, fuck E. E. Cummings.
unnamednewbie13
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The funniest kind of grammar nazi imo is one who proudly butts in with an incorrect correction, thinking that they're "doing an educate."
SuperJail Warden
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In the last days of the battle against the Islamic State in Syria, when members of the once-fierce caliphate were cornered in a dirt field next to a town called Baghuz, a U.S. military drone circled high overhead, hunting for military targets. But it saw only a large crowd of women and children huddled against a river bank.

Without warning, an American F-15E attack jet streaked across the drone’s high-definition field of vision and dropped a 500-pound bomb on the crowd, swallowing it in a shuddering blast. As the smoke cleared, a few people stumbled away in search of cover. Then a jet tracking them dropped one 2,000-pound bomb, then another, killing most of the survivors.

It was March 18, 2019. At the U.S. military’s busy Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, uniformed personnel watching the live drone footage looked on in stunned disbelief, according to one officer who was there.

“Who dropped that?” a confused analyst typed on a secure chat system being used by those monitoring the drone, two people who reviewed the chat log recalled. Another responded, “We just dropped on 50 women and children.”

An initial battle damage assessment quickly found that the number of dead was actually about 70.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/us/u … eaths.html


Yikes. That's a lot of civilians. We should have never been a part of the anti-ISIS coalition in the first place.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
SuperJail Warden
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"The Changing Face of Social Breakdown
Pathologies of unruliness are being displaced by pathologies of passivity."
https://thedispatch.com/p/the-changing- … -breakdown

Article by a conservative who is disturbed by the fact that Americans are increasingly withdrawing from public life. Less marriages and pregnancies. Less involvement with voluntary cultural institutions. Americans are increasingly risk averse.

What I find annoying about this article is that there is no acknowledgement the what role conservatives have had in creating an America that is skittish and uninterested in being involved with each other.

I mean if you are unhappy nobody is showing up to your church maybe you shouldn't have chased all the gays away? If you are upset that nobody takes the Rotary club seriously perhaps they shouldn't have let yentas run the place.

Yuval Levin is the director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the editor of National Affairs.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
unnamednewbie13
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Issues with costs of living, housing, underinsurance (or lack of), are often underplayed, though not the only reasons. There are probably things millennials actually have some responsibility in killing off, but it probably isn't the AmErIcAn DrEaM.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
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Cost of education is a big issue with dynamism. Want to change careers or increase your professional qualifications? Got to pay crazy tuition. For my graduate degree I am essentially back to where I was when I graduated undergrad. And all for the privilege of dealing with kids who are off their shit.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
unnamednewbie13
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Does knowledge of the BS they have to look forward to given that you're one of the country's underappreciated teachers, with other experience from your old mechanic job, mitigate the disdain you have for your students? Knowing that they'll grow up into a culture where underpaid workers think someone like a burger flipper shouldn't make a livable wage because that would bring their low pay too close to their own shitty jobs'? Or do you (like some) look forward to it out of a certain spite?

This post from 2015: https://imgur.com/gallery/QXJ56x6

One of the more awful questions in job interviews, "how much do you want to make," requires a magical answer somewhere in the sweet spot between you not wanting too much from the company, and undervaluing yourself to the point they think you have no self-respect or don't think much of your own skills. Knowing how much a job and your qualifications should earn you isn't always going to be the same as what a company wants you to say. Anyway, extend to low $/hr jobs, few people in business are going to respect workers who bow to wages hovering little over minimum, or even below, and don't seek to be paid more.

Although, expecting everyone to be negotiating for better pay for themselves every chance they get may be a little idealistic, when some may be more worried about just keeping their job even under a capricious employer. Need representation, legislation.
unnamednewbie13
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Rosy prospects ahead, using older generations as a miner's canary.
Rising housing costs compounded by insufficient retirement income and life’s calamities are driving more seniors, such as 71-year-old Carl Russell, onto California’s streets.

Each night, Russell sleeps sitting up. A sleeping bag on a concrete sidewalk is his bed. The front of San Diego’s Gary and Mary West Senior Wellness Center is his headboard.
https://grayingcalifornia.org/stories/homeless/

(Ah, yes. Prime examples of the stereotypical old people who were given everything and own everything.)



Better get some engineers in power so they can magically fix society, drawing on their intimate knowledge of bolts and hydraulics.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Does knowledge of the BS they have to look forward to given that you're one of the country's underappreciated teachers, with other experience from your old mechanic job, mitigate the disdain you have for your students? Knowing that they'll grow up into a culture where underpaid workers think someone like a burger flipper shouldn't make a livable wage because that would bring their low pay too close to their own shitty jobs'? Or do you look forward to it out of spite?
The premise of your question is wrong. I don't disdain my kids. Maybe individual ones...but as a whole I am a big advocate for the youth. Especially troubles ones. I would be willing to make personal or financial sacrifices for the youth of our nation.

I encourage the kids to look into trade schools for stuff like mechanics or joining the military.

Regarding pay...it is a nice thing to be part of a union. Everyone has the same pay scale. No begging for a raise or finding out the fuck up you know makes more than you because reasons. One theory about why the wage gap still persist for women and minorities is because both are afraid to advocate for themselves and better pay. "Be grateful you were hired". Yuk.

Circling back to institutions...this is probably another reason why so many are going into the dustbin of history.  Be grateful you were even allowed to join, grovel to some pig people, etc.? Fuck all that.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
unnamednewbie13
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I don't think I framed that unreasonably given your sometimes tendency towards frequent disparaging comments about your students. I do understand though that this one of your secret hideouts for venting what you wouldn't dare on facebook or linkedin or whatever.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
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You probably have a very loose definition of "disdain" then.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Rosy prospects ahead, using older generations as a miner's canary.
Rising housing costs compounded by insufficient retirement income and life’s calamities are driving more seniors, such as 71-year-old Carl Russell, onto California’s streets.

Each night, Russell sleeps sitting up. A sleeping bag on a concrete sidewalk is his bed. The front of San Diego’s Gary and Mary West Senior Wellness Center is his headboard.
https://grayingcalifornia.org/stories/homeless/

(Ah, yes. Prime examples of the stereotypical old people who were given everything and own everything.)



Better get some engineers in power so they can magically fix society, drawing on their intimate knowledge of bolts and hydraulics.
Maybe they should build more mixed use housing.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
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https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/caab958f75d964695602a7567ba35fc5?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=608&cropW=1080&xPos=0&yPos=416&width=862&height=485

LMAO
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
uziq
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is that a photoshop? even mentioning winnie the pooh on social media in china is strictly forbidden. they have giant filters for a bunch of 'sensitive' terms like that. chinese youths have to use their own patois and coded-language to even approach topics like it.

she has actual balls if she's posting that stuff.

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