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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

The double standards about where fossil fuels and renewables affect pristine lands is too obvious to see.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Were governed by a libertarian nutbag and her cabinet of cronies... This isn't surprising in the slightest

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are governed by trump in a dress and you chose this. How kenney was not a warning is beyond belief.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

you chose this

It was something like 2% of the population that actually voted for her.. Just dumbass election laws made it easy for them to put in a fascist

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

*Fascist nutbag

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The original thesis is moot anyway. Anything politicians decide is political by nature...? How would it not be?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Anything anyone decides is political in nature

Politics is people

Kids choosing to be friends with the rich kid instead of the one wearing a cape is politics

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Emails, texts [...]

If you don't know why 'email' doesn't get an S on the end, then I think we've lost the illusion of authority.

It's like a tenor who can't clear his throat.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don’t know why ‘email’ doesn’t get an S on the end, then I think we’ve lost the illusion of authority.

Plenty of people seem to weigh in on either side.

This linguistic argument is hardly a settled thing, and definitely not on par with their/there/they're mistakes.

Our Government Weighs in, in favour of emails

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Huh, I never thought about this. The plurality norms don't quite match snail mail.

  • "The mail is here" (this sounds normal)
  • "The mails are here" (this sounds unusual)
  • "I got an email" (this sounds normal)
  • "I got a letter" (this sounds normal)
  • "I got a mail" (this sounds unusual)

I guess this comes down to the fact that there is no widely-used word for a single piece of electronic mail. Perhaps "eletter" would be the analogue, but I've never seen it used. As a result, "email" is used for both a single piece, and the category as a whole.