He is a king, a burger berder king

FTFY

How are any of then surprised? Trump is the most easily bribeable man to ever be president.

FTFY

Eyjafjallajökull

Roughly pronounced: AY-yuh-FYAT-la-YUH-kuh-dl

In this case, I believe this article was written for those of us who are smart enough to realise that AI is all bullshit, and who understand that most people aren’t smart enough to figure out that first bit.

I feel like this misses the mark slightly: Microsoft owns Github now, in precisely the same way that Melon Husk owns Xitter. Microsoft didn’t “fail upwards” with github, they used the power of unforgivably offensive amounts of capital to make a purchase of an already-extremely-profitable company, in order to ensure that all of Microsoft’s other software dingleberries, hanging from the fetid prolapse that is their own company, continue to hang on and accomplish the only two things they care about:

1. that the girth of their proverbial ass does not decrease (and thus continue to keep every market they can firmly under its weight)

And

2. that its stench continues poisoning the well for anything that could potentially compete with them.

With these two feats accomplished, they can keep their monopoly going.

As a classroom teacher for students who are >80% immigrants from non-anglophone countries, I can actually speak with some authority on the subject. I have many students who have traditional names in other languages, as well as students whose parents 100% just made up something they thought sounded nice. I am one of the few teachers who emphasises correctly pronouncing students’ names. If they put stress on the second syllable, I put stress on the second syllable. If they have a non-english phoneme, you bet I’m learning how to do the clicks in Xhosa, or the “ng” in Vietnamese or Maori. I work very hard to make sure I’m pronouncing their names exactly how they do.

I have had three students in the last month alone remark on how I am the only teacher they’ve ever had who pronounced their name “right”. I have a student named Djibril who had extremely poor relationships with most of the teachers in the building, but who always does my work, and he straight up told me last year that it was because I am the only person in the entire school who actually pronounces his name correctly. Everyone else just calls him “juh-BRILL”, when he says it should be pronounced closer to “JEE-breel” (with a lilted r).

Making sure you pronounce someone’s name how they pronounce their name can be extremely important to social relationships, and having an anglicised name attached to them against their will is often mentioned among memoirs of immigrants as one of the first and most alienating things to happen to them when they enter an anglophone country. It’s not about expecting others to cater to your weird name. It’s about people having a basic modicum of respect for the humanity of non-dominant cultures. In america, at least, this respect has never been a thing. From Ellis island literally changing people’s names because they thought they would be hard for “real” Americans to pronounce, to interning anyone with a japanese name regardless of how long their family was in the US, to the new fascist roundups of anyone with a name that sounds plausibly nonwhite.

So, even with different “accents”, I’d say that pronouncing it exactly how they say it can be important. If someone in Germany went to the trouble of pronouncing the ‘w’ in my name with an american “w”, I’d appreciate it, at the least, but it would probably also make me remember them fondly every time someone else pronounced it incorrectly accented.

I’ll take “Risky Clicks” for 800, Alex.

E: Oh, yeah, I wasn’t suggesting that it was out of character, but that the proclivity to perform oral sex was not directly relevant to the fact that Grant is Bi.

Good for him?

Colours are a spectrum. That doesn’t stop two things from being the same hue/wavelength

Grant is bi…

I’m so glad we can always rely on Satan’s Maggoty Cum Fart for honest and reasonable assessments of situations.

I’d agree with your comment, if it were posted ten years ago. We are already there. I cannot get any of the materials I need as a science teacher without going through fucking Amazon. There isn’t a single laboratory supply store I can find in the metro area I live in with a population of 5-million+. I can’t purchase anything without going online. Every utility is run by a corporation actively grifting the citizens, because it has complete control over whether they live or die. Every single thing I do requires either completely cutting myself off from another aspect of society or capitulating to a corpofascist monopoly or cabal of pedophilic oligarchs.

Of course! Because, just like with Jan 6th, anytime they are put in a negative light because of their own crimes, it’s an antifascist false flag operation!

Incorrect. They’ll just delete the parts listed as “redacted”, so it looks complete.

Yeah, I have curated my library to be focused on the history of science, with special focus on the sorts of books which include information necessary to bring society to the technological equivalent of the age of reason (with extra chemistry and medicine). At that point, it’s mostly practical, and the practicality of the source speaks to the likely authenticity of other texts within the collection.

Congratulations, you’ve just written a quarter of the plot of the Book of Eli with Denzel Washington

You know, people get very particular, saying that you should go all natural and get fresh ingredients, straight out of the ground, and that this gets you more bang for your buck when you follow the recioe but, really, the markup price is worth it to get the pre-packaged uranium that has already been centrifuged. Not everyone has access to a stand mixer, just like not everyone has access to enrichment-capable centrifuges.

Meanwhile, in other breaking news:

• Recent archeological studies suggest that Abraham Lincoln is, in fact, dead;
• Physicists have determined that the sky is sometimes blue;
• Neuroscientists are making the bold claim that most humans are more intelligent than rats. They have found that the reverse correlation exists for all those who report surprise at reading our top headline on RFK Jr’s testimony!

The problem is that one stupid tends to take many “unlucky” down with it when it kills itself.

The problem is that the vaccine regimen is very expensive, and the government is run by people who use every single failure of the regimen to push for a less-strict regimen, which causes more failures. They do this because they actively profit from a populace infected with stupidity.