My own purely anecdotal observation is that there are still far more of us Xers who know how to drive a manual transmission. One good thing about it, for my wife and I at least, is that our gen Z kids never asked to borrow our cars and just bought their own automatics or borrowed from their grandparents.
My wife's car has an especially fiendish hydraulic clutch that will stall out if you even look at it funny, so that helped too.
"Most of the world"? Really? Maybe in the developed world I guess, but definitely not in "most of the world." In most of the world law enforcement is very much a pay for service business like any other. Well, in a lot of the world anyway.
They weren't introduced in anything like an analogous way. Mr and Mrs evolved slowly over decades and even centuries from older forms referring to master and mistress.
I don't have a strong opinion about Mx either way, but as an amateur linguistics nerd I can assure you that the way it's been introduced to our lexicon is very different from these much older terms.
Or, you know, you could just get over it and realize that gender in language is not the same thing as gender in people. There's one African language, for example, that has 16 different genders.
Also, you are mistaken that linguistic gender doesn't serve a purpose. It does and there's a pretty extensive body of linguistic literature on the subject.
Fun fact; as with most of the other Germanic languages, English originally had three genders; masculine, feminine and neuter. They got stripped out of the language for reasons having to do with English history that are too technical to go into right now.
I used to think that way as well, but extensive international travel has shown me the error of my ways; turns out that morons are pretty evenly distributed throughout the world.
You mean pop country.
I reject the premise that being pro-life is about a moral conviction regarding the sanctity of life. If that is in fact the moral underpinning that informs the pro-life position, then we would expect to see a similar consistency with regard to all other issues relating to the protection of human life, but we don't.
What it's really about is controlling women and maintaining a hierarchy by ensuring that sex without reproductive consequences is impossible.
Pro-lifers tell themselves that it's about the sanctity of life because by the rules of cognitive dissonance they have to rationalize a way to see themselves as the good guys, but again, all of that is belied by the fact that they don't seem to believe in the primacy of human life in any other context.
Unfortunately, this kind of cognitive trick is a very human and very common thing. We all do it to one extent or another.
Well that was easy.
I had a similar attitude 20 years ago. Now that I'm older I generally just say my piece and walk away. Arguing with anonymous idiots on the Internet is a losing proposition no matter how one looks at it.
That said, I will engage with people who make intelligent and well-informed comments, but these are definitely the exception in a world where every moron feels entitled to an opinion, no matter how little they actually understand about a subject.
You don't know WTF you're talking about and it shows. You obviously have no formal training in journalism or mass communications, but here you are spouting off like the self-appointed armchair "expert" you are. Just consuming news doesn't make you an expert; it makes you a consumer with a poorly-informed opinion. Again, you obviously have no idea how any of this works.
No, they are actual dictators IRL too.
04 Nissan Frontier over here. I specifically bought it because it has a manual transmission which is hard to find in the US. I drove all the way up to Seattle from Portland to get it. There are maintenance issues given its age, but I still love it. Apart from the bullshit bells and whistles, it's still every bit as capable as any new pickup in its class. I've doctored it up a bit over the years, so it's not fully stock anymore.