Competition for Veridian Dynamics

Thanks!

I’m definitely arguing against standard rules then 🙄

However, I’d say generally people write “Good morning John, please do this boring thing from last week”, instead of “Good morning, John, please do this thing”.

Honestly I’m not sure if I’m critiquing widely accepted English grammar because it seems kinda like the serial comma (some use, some don’t), but I don’t know the name for it.

The NY Times piece on commas doesn’t cite any sources and gives examples with and without based on Byzantine rules I highly doubt anyone follows, and the OWL doesn’t seem to cover this specifically.

So… any idea what this particular type of comma is called that I’m wrong about but would like to persuade others that I should be right?

That comma is unnecessary and introduces ambiguity to the sentence, which is the opposite of what commas are supposed to do.

For example, who is the dumbass?:

Have a good weekend dumbass!

Have a good week, dumbass!

Have a good week,

Dumbass!

Who is Carol?!? The addressed, or the addressee? (I’m not actually an English expert so may be wildly incorrect)

This is a hilarious example of how in some cases social commentary cannot be obvious enough.

I’m pretty late but hopefully this helps someone:

Privacy is in the moment. It isn’t just about your SSN, or the email address you had ten years ago even you signed up for Pegging by Peggy newsletters. It’s a moving target and the highest value for the people that want your data is as close to right now as possible.

If you digitally disappeared in this moment the value of all the shit they have on you would rapidly decline.

It also is about as complete a picture as possible. Privacy violating data points are valuable in aggregation. An address and name are only valuable when you can tie it to viewing preferences, voting records, etc. The more data points you can hide, the better.

Also, many (most?) people will be more upset with the person who rocks the boat or is the messenger of bad news than the perpetrator of the real problem. “We’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas” applies to people you might care about just as much as it does to Schummer.

widdoe --> whittle

If your unit of measurement is 1 Asia coastline, all others would be some changing fraction thereof. Mathematical equation paradox maybe but hardly over that disproves the answer.

I went in thinking “ok, fan fiction, alternate take on the universe”, and it was an ok show with some surprisingly great parts. Then the season two plot was just a turtle fucking a snail, and I was done.

Edit: to be clear, it was slow motion WTF, why is this nothing happening?

THEY ALREADY TALKED TO VETERINARIANS MULTIPLE TIMES AND ARE TRYING TO SEE IF SOMEONE HAS HAD A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE THAT MIGHT POINT THEM IN A HELPFUL DIRECTION

I doubt they read the article, but I read a decent bit and that’s actually a fair summary of what the author wrote. I didn’t see any real support for their opinion, mostly just repeated and slightly differing versions of derision. I’m not super fond of Harris so I was curious what they’d lay out but it doesn’t appear all that substantial especially for a thesis project like that.

Uh, is this a shitpost or is there actual evidence of that?

In some ways this seems like a bigger victory than in NY, but didn’t get near as much press.

Will be interesting to see what they can get done. It’s incredibly difficult to implement lasting change. Unless your goal is first and foremost to break shit I guess.

That’s how the vote buying and horse trading works. They don’t waste money or political capital getting extra votes on board, it’s a buy and sell game, not anyone actually voting their conscience.

That’s a little close to the “no true Scotsman” fallacy.

The comment I was responding to mentioned something that Marxist-Leninists do, not what the source material calls for. The self identified ML randos online are the ones most of us have exposure to, also being a rando online myself.

I suppose it might be similar to saying Christians are not very Christ-like.

That is absolutely not descriptive of the general comments and sentiment upvoted in the ML instance.

Hah, I was just joking about the venn diagram overlap between conservatives and your comment

I think OP already made that point

https://lemmyverse.link/sh.itjust.works/post/49034330

The do say stuff like that. Every time Obama’s name comes up.

And hoarding billionaires ruin everything for everyone. Class warfare, not generation.