Joined the Mayqueeze.
I wonder if the gender imbalance had an influence on this decision. According to Wikipedia there are 1.14 boys for every girl in the 15 and under age bracket. The lag in maturity got maybe more pronounced because there simply were more boisterous boys in the classrooms than mature girls who can answer all the questions.
I mean, come on.
It’s FIFA. Handing out a peace prize. They didn’t do it because they love peace so much. It’s one narcissist painfully realizing that the success of running his organization’s biggest money grab depends on the whims of another narcissist. Because that’s still true, nothing will happen until after the world cup finals. Then, they will work up another shortlist for the next one (Kim Jong-Un, Benjamin Netanyahu, whoever is still alive in Iran and in charge, etc.) or, which is more likely, there will be a press release issued on a day when the world burns with bigger news that the prize is on hold indefinitely.
Lemmy is part of the fediverse. On the fediverse you are your own algorithm. So either you have curated your feed to be very political or you’re on the local feed of your instance, which has a lot of political posts. But you signed up there.
Either way, you’re there by choice. Curate your own feed. I get lots of stuff that isn’t political. Just keep in mind you don’t get reddit user numbers over here so not every niche nonpolitical subject has found a viable community. Yet.
Calling it one law may have been oversimplifying it on my part. It’s more of a concert of laws and case law. Here is a summary with sources.
You’re criticizing capitalism fundamentally, which is valid. I wasn’t going that far. I didn’t think revolution was within the scope of this imaginary protest agenda we’re setting here. So baby steps. Reining in unbridled capitalism wherever possible (and necessary) is better than nothing.
As a bit of a left field addition to other good suggestions already in this thread:
Rescind the fiduciary duty of any officer in a corporation to increase shareholder value no matter what. Exceptions must be made for cases where it would hurt the environment (anywhere on the planet and judging by the strictest state laws in effect), cause excessive loss of jobs, or hurt consumers.
I think a lot of problems of late stage capitalism are downstream consequences from this stupid law.
Is there something wrong with making a new account to make a discussion post about a video?
If the video is from a platform whose algorithm thrives on controversy, is presented in a context of controversy, on a new account, it’s at least suspicious here on the lemmyverse.
So you’ve been thinking about joining the fediverse but it was this video you wanted to share with us that finally made you pull the trigger? It’s a sequence of events I find inherently sus.
Is this not a forum website?
Yes, it is. And as such it is sometimes abused by people with ulterior motives.
This is ridiculous behavior.
That is both your prerogative to think so and a matter of opinion.
I’ve been respectful and open to every single person I’ve responded to. I am not creating drama or name calling.
Your eagerness to engage virtually any comment on this niche subject is what I find suspicious. It’s the eagerness you also see by people who abuse Lemmy for rage bait.
If there’s drama being created on this post, it’s because people can’t stand Mutahar. And I agree with them! But as someone who refuses to be an ideologue living in an echo chamber, I watch content from sources I don’t agree with too, and I discuss it. I don’t get what problem you have with this.
I don’t know who that is and don’t care enough to find out. I refer you to my criticism of the source of the video. My suspicion, which I have to say your comments have not diminished, is that you created this account and this persona to generate more views to feed the algorithm on YouTube and not because you wanted to have a serious discussion about the subject.
Correction: so you made a new account on this instance and then posted it.
Why would this decision require a public feedback sesh? Build it and they will come. Or they won’t because they read some stuff about the author.
I’m just spit balling here. Is it possible that the intent of this post is not to have a discussion about OSs but to boost the YouTube views? It’s just a vibe I’m getting. New account, very eager to reply, posting this out of the blue.
If the video is on YouTube, they make a thumbnail pulling a dumb face, and it gets presented in a forum like this with a whiff of controversy about it, personally, I’ll refuse to look at it.
Has there been a feature film starring somebody who came up through the influencer game that enough people here would have heard of to be able to answer this question? I can’t think of any. Can anyone else?
Talent is not necessarily a prerequisite for a long acting career. Exhibit A: Arnold Schwarzenegger. So maybe some TikTokers who act out silly mini one-person plays have a leg up on some established names in Hollywood.
Also, TV and the movie industry are in trouble. Receding commercial revenues and the age of streaming and not going to the movies are hurting them badly. Going after some influencers may be more of a fight for survival, to make money off of younger demographics, than a veritable search for acting talent.
That’s something. But I wouldn’t call that a sandwich.
Is there anything on the bread though? I was doing the mental math and I can find combos of soup with undressed bread to dip into it, tomato soup and baguette are maybe the most commonly known of the kind. But it strikes me the idea of soup and a two slices of bread with something in between is very anglosaxon, possibly more North American thing.
Hung around with a couple of guys from there. One of them has a mullet.
You’re not here to f@ck spiders going by the TLD on your handle. The average yank wouldn’t know what that meant.
“Native English speaker” is not adequately complex as a label. I think you have to be more specific.
There are two views on this: language creates grammar after the fact, those are rules, we need to stick to these rules, and this be the hill I die on.
The other view is more liberal. Native speakers don’t care about these rules and naturally deviate from some. Not all, not all at once, and not always to an extent that is recognized by the majority of speakers. But occasionally, certain uses make it. The use of the past tense in constructions that by the laws of grammar should require the past participle is a feature of Black American English. The popularity of hiphop and rap have spread this all over the world. With the now much derided term “woke” it has even reached other languages.
By heart I’m a narrow minded stickler for the rules myself. The nonsensical use of “literally” still makes me mad. But that horse is so far out of the barn you can barely see it on the horizon. Fighting the fight for clean past tense/past participle separation may be one against windmills.
English as a Germanic language comes from a protolanguage that probably only had irregular verbs in the vein of sing-sang-sung. Over time, and probably out of desperation by people who needed to learn it as a second language via migration and mingling, the verbs we now consider regular (team -ed) came about later. Language changes. English is living proof with its spelling making no sense at all and clear influences of Viking and Norman invasions and the spread around the world via the Empire. American English made spelling changes. Indian (Asia) English developed its own unique characteristics that may deviate from the King’s version. There is such a thing as EU English where you can see what happens when mostly non-natives go to town in it.
Grammar came after the spoken version. It’s like a constitution that can be changed by quiet, gradual consensus.
Because he is always playing golf. He would be doing that if he wasn’t wrecking the economy as well.
Thank you for your rage bait post. It’s a very good one. So well done, you!
I watched the news segment linked in here and I’m neither a doctor, nor a healthcare administrator, nor an Aussie: this does sound rather daft. You could contract the disease while being abroad even if all Aussie ticks were proven to be clean. Which is at least in doubt based on two local cases they interviewed. I’m guessing this is a very small number of people getting royally screwed by the system.
On a semi-serious note, would the Australian healthcare system also refuse to treat a person with Ebola based on the fact that the virus is known to be of African origin?
Gasoline.