What is and is not a word? If it's being used by writers, and is understood by readers, it kinda is a word.
Linguistics is a desceiptive field, not a prescriptive one.
Kichae
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Oh, as if people will remember shit. A lot of voters apparently forgot that they'd already had Trump for president. The shocked-Pikachu faces have been beyond bizarre this time around.
Niching down is only required, or even desirable, once there's a critical mass of users cross-talking in a general space. Canada -> Canadian Media -> Canadian TV -> CBC Television -> CBC News -> whatever can be created as the discussions become too much for the more general bucket.
Great, Brian Greene's been drinking again.
It's exactly the sort of words I would use, given what the words mean. Statistical significance is a technical term, meaning that the results are likely to be representative of the true value in the population, and not some editorial flair meant to undercut the shift in polls.
The margin of error is larger than the polling advantage measured in the survey, which means the reported lead is statistically insignificant, and that they were just as likely to find that the CPC held a narrow lead if they were to have shuffled their call list during the survey period.
Wow, the writing at the Coast has gotten brutal. He actual, concrete changes the city is apparently making are so buried or overshadowed here, I didn't even get to them.
King's College or wherever these guys are gettinf their journalism degrees from need to double down on teaching the kids to get to the point already.
I currently have a job. One I've been trying to get out of for years, where no one will tell anyone what they want, and just gesture broadly towards abstract-sounding goals which can all be rephrased as "sell more", even though I am not in sales.
People will often tell those who are unemployed that being unployed is the reason they're not getting hired - that people want to hire those who are currently working - but that doesn't seem to be true. Not in my experience, at least. And not since everyone decided to pretend the whole fever dream of a perpetual-lockdoen economy never happened.
It's totally dried up. A couple of years ago, I had recruiters reaching out to me, and was making it pretty far through the interview process before getting tossed aside in the last step. Often the reasons for getting passed over were pretty weak at the time, but now no one's talking to me at all.
Yes, perhaps. But I suspect that still distracts from the fact that we're trying to sell an illusion with the fediverse, and I personally believe that that is a mistake. So many issues people voice about their experience here come from the design of everything emulating Big Social, and Big Social is centralized.
Aping the design language of centralized social media and then trying to get anyone other than enthusiasts on board is never going to work.
One of the ways we do this is by referring to "Mastodon" and "Lemmy" as if they are places you can go to, websites you can use. This is why I chose phpBB as my reference point. I've used WordPress and Joomla in the past, with less impact. We don't and have never spoken about phpBB as a singular location. You would respond to someone suggesting you "use phpBB" with, at the very least, a confused look. Or, if you didn't know what it is, you'd ask them "what is that?" and they'd tell you "forum software", revealing that their request of you was absurd. "Get an email address" is, at the very least, something that isn't a nonsensical request. Websites demand it of us all of the time.
Do people believe conservatism will fix those problems? Or are people feeling scared and angry, and the Cons fo a good job of validating those feelings?
Because the attitude I'm seeing is far more "fuck the guys in charge" than it is "the right will fix things". It seems way more about picking a team, and feeling a sense of accomplishment and catharsis for getting a win by proxy, and getting to say "fuck you" to someone, than it does about believing things will get better.
you're not going to live to tell this tale
You say that as if that isn't exactly the goal. The useful idiot is handing the world to Putin, at least in Putin's mind
Isn't it, though? Isn't this how the USA has treated most countries smaller than it? Less wealthy than it? Less white than it?
Growing up outside of the US, this behaviour seems completely in line with how the country has always behaved on the international stage, just pointed at one of the "good" countries.
Trump is the average Murica, Fuck Yeah type that we meet online all of the time, and have for the past 30+ years. He's the Yankee tourist that comes into our towns and expects us to accept their foreign currency, weather their patronizing questions, and cater to their idiosyncratic demands.
Trump doesn't seem like a surprise to us. He seems like the natural outcome of a country that has tooted its own horn on the world stage for 80 years, that has glorified its military and its military might, that has waved the phrase "American Exceptionalism" at its own population without irony, and that long mythologized its history. Remember, fascism was popular in the US 90 years ago. The only problem y'all had with the Nazis was that they were German. I mean, if you use Ur-Fascism as a checklist, the USA checks off most of the boxes on a good year.
You might not be cognizant of that, but many of us living outside your borders very much are.
I don't like what I see in the mirror most days, either. But I don't get to deny the grey hairs and aging face. I sure as hell don't go out in public shouting to the world "I'm not getting old; this greying, overweight man isn't me!"