MyBrainHurts

You know why seniors' issues tend to be addressed? Because they vote like their lives depend on it and put the rest of us to shame.

Me: I should read more alternative journalism.

Me, after reading several paragraphs of impressively foolish and ignorant writing: Allrighty, mainstream journalism, I was wrong and I apologize.

If I wanted to ensure the status quo and prevent real change, I cam think of no better sociological judo than getting the progressive Left hooked on identity politics.

To the kids who make your clothes, you are excessively wealthy.

Ehhh, I've stopped using reddit but I don't fault people for it and the significant amount of available content.

And in this case I imagine way more people, like by orders of magnitude, are at least seeing, engaging and noting Canadian brands albeit via an American service.

We pivoted from social justice causes like child labour to systemic racism (but only in the first world, not where our actual daily racism is practiced) and transphobia etc because the former requires personal sacrifices while the latter mostly "requires" snarky takes on social media.

I don't know if I'd call it formal (to me, formal means using sir, more conditionals and more emphasis on manners) so much as I enjoy speaking grammatically, the same way I like to use idiosyncratic words, all fun stuff that makes language more interesting. Yes, plain English, unencumbered by whom or unnecessarily large words is more simple but it is also less joyful. (In my cynical way, I wonder if I'll see textbooks with "k" instead of okay in my lifetime.)

Fully agree on literally (in part, Dave Cross broke me on that one years ago. "When you misuse that word, you are using it exactly incorrectly.") The other one that bugs me is nonplussed, which is becoming to mean its opposite to the point where if it's used it pretty much has no meaning because you have no way of knowing whether the speaker knows it actually means bewildered/startled or if they're using it incorrectly to mean the exact opposite.

"Of which you thought." - I also enjoy not ending sentences with prepositions.

Again, I just think it makes everyday language better. Similar to having art on one's walls, doesn't improve anything other than aesthetics but that's enough to make it worthwhile to some.

I also would never use "k" instead of okay in a text but to each their own!

To each their own!

I personally think English sounds better when spoken well and enjoy doing so. "For Who the Bell Tolls" sounds silly and I think people missing whom tend to sound similarly silly.

It's the same idea, we understand exactly what he's saying, 0 impairment of understanding etc.

There's no reason for a lot of stuff; why do verbs like have and be require different conjugations when the subject is in the sentence? Why bother pluralizing words when we can usually figure it out from context etc.

Absolutely deliberate. Monty Python was mostly Oxford and Cambridge grads who darn well knew how to use whom.