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Why did the US fight against Japan after Pear Harbor? It just meant that more people got killed, both American and Japanese.

Why did the Soviet Union fight against Nazi Germany? It literally was just killing more people, both Soviet and German.

Also as a non native English speaker, I used to find "all but" super weird too. Particularly since there's also "everything but" where the words mean very similar things but the meaning is exactly the opposite.

I've always felt that biological warfare is a really stupid idea for everyone involved. Like, stuff like nuclear and chemical weapons is not nice, but the effects are relatively localized. With biological warfare though, there is no way to absolutely contain the pathogen and to prevent its spread in your own population.

Don't worry, let's keep making no effort and maybe this time things will change!

I very much appreciate my combined breathing and eating system whenever I have a cold and my nose is completely blocked.

Yeah, I use task manager way more often for monitoring than I use it for stopping processes.

if my folks regularly add hours to their day/week to get their job done they're not good at their job

Or they have too much work

No

Sometimes, initialism or alphabetism is used to refer to acronyms formed from the string of initials which are usually pronounced as individual letters

It's a very deliberate phrasing, since not everyone agrees that initialisms are not acronyms.

Personally I think that "ackhually that's an initialism not an acronym 🤓" is exactly the kind of ultimately irrelevant distinction that internet know-it-alls love to know and point out. I know because I used to be like that too when I was younger.

But often those distinctions are not universally acknowledged or useful in all contexts. Like how strawberries are not scientifically berries, but we still often group them as berries.

Nitpicking word definitions is pointless when the distinction being pointed out is not relevant for the conversation.

Initialisms are a type of acronym. All initialisms are acronyms but not all acronyms are initialisms.

Sometimes, initialism or alphabetism is used to refer to acronyms formed from the string of initials which are usually pronounced as individual letters

What fell off was a plug filling in an optional emergency exit location. It was a regular row of seats because the plane didn't have the optional emergency exit installed (it is only required for high density passenger cabin configurations).