Thomas Dolby, I Love You Goodbye.

Thanks for that. Indeed, that makes me less confident in their suitability to teach those subjects, but I worry about a sensational conclusion about their general literacy.

I would want to repeat that study with novels written in the past 25 years before concluding too much. Yes, the participants had access to a dictionary, but I imagine that needing to decipher certain parts, such as foreign cultural references and familiar words with unexpected meanings, interferes with the brain’s usual functions for turning words into images in the mind’s eye. And this even ignores the folks with aphantasia like me.

Yes, although I’m struck by some of the words, particularly this sense of “wonderful”.

And now I’m even more glad that it’s sunny out here right now and I can hear birds.

Maritime Madness, Candied Habanero or Lime Cilantro.

Political discussions online rarely lead to satisfying resolutions. As a result, political discussions bleed into everyday discussion in the desperate hope that something, somewhere, will magically make sense.

Similarly, when businesses have meetings that don’t actually resolve matters, every meeting becomes a desperate chance to discuss things that matter in the hopes they’ll be resolved, so then every meeting that needs to happen will happen during every scheduled meeting, even wrhb ostensibly unrelated. This continues until meeting culture changes and even overall communication culture changes.

It seems natural and reasonable in such an environment for many people (like you) to want to disengage. Why continue doing something that never seems to lead to resolution?

You did it. Count me among the folks who would reply to you.

Boo.

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“Let’s ignore the constitution.” This is fine.

And then:

You fight someone if they actually break with democracy.

What kind of break with democracy the motherfuck are you waiting for?

Your country in a nutshell. I wouldn’t care if we didn’t catch a cold from you sneezing.

I’m not “keen”, I’m merely fucking exhausted.

Me too, man, me fuckin’ too.

I feel you. Let’s be exhausted together. Cheers.

When will you folks understand what your first amendment actually means?

I’m not asking your government to silence him. I’m not asking a court to sentence him. I’m not looking for a police force to arrest him.

Or, and hear me out, the country that built itself in part on being prepared to meet tyranny with force is the one who ought to actually meet tyranny with force when the time comes. Other countries, which did not do this, have every right to call out hypocrisy and cowardice for what it is, especially after decades of watching the cowards be cowardly.

And no, my country is far from perfect. Surely you see how irrelevant that is to this discussion.

UPDATE: How nice! You understood me after all. You also assumed some facts not in evidence, but in a discussion such as this, that’s likely to happen. I’m not “keen”, I’m merely fucking exhausted.

As a way of calling out the hypocrisy of the people who claim to be all gung-ho to stamp out tyranny from behind the barrel of a gun I have no issue with it […] https://lemmy.world/comment/16821307

You might be shocked to learn that other countries exist and that the internet works in those countries and that your joke of a fucking constitution doesn’t apply there.

Hint: I live in such a country.

Country with a second amendment refuses to use it.