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Montana loses fight against youth climate activists in landmark ruling (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml to c/green@lemmy.ml

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[–] aaronstc@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except for " Do you mind..." I see you point and never noticed it before. I'm guilty of most of these.

However, the polite response to "Do you mind?" is "no." Otherwise you would mind, and if you do mind, you wouldn't want to do the favor. It's actually a weird question because it basically flips the meaning of "yes" and "no" you usually expect.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

That's a good argument untiiiillll you consider that this question is essentially a negated version of "Will you please..."