Submitted 3 weeks ago by PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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It’s common to the point of mootness, but: when describing the planet, Earth is a proper noun and should be capitalized. Otherwise you are referring to soil.
My rule with langauge:
If you understand what they’re trying to say, then they did a good enough job describing themselves.
(Also I love how this post is getting loads of upvotes because people are just seeing Bernie’s message and liking it lol).
I get the message and generally don’t care for prescriptive grammar, but for some reason this particular rule haunts me.
Let those votes be a lesson: camouflage your actual point behind a picture everyone loves and you will … win fake internet points?
win fake internet points?
Don’t even get those here
Ok but what type of LAN gauge? Are you talking like an ethernet cable tester, a protocol analyzer, what? Are we dealing with fiber, ethernet, or even shudder token ring?
For all we know, in that moment Elon was standing on some dirt, making him the wealthiest person on lower-case earth.
Exactly. So if we want to be pedants, earth or Earth would be fine here. Even if he’s in a building, that building is still on the soil. Even if he’s flying in an airplane, that airplane is supported by air, which it itself supported by earth. The only way you can’t be “on earth” is if you’re in space and/or in freefall. And Musk is too much of a coward to climb aboard one of his own rockets.
Also, he’s definitely on something. Might be earth
My dictionary says it’s lower-case. I’ve only ever seen it in lower-case, unless you’re taking about it in the astronomical sense (e.g. “the planet Earth”).
Sorry Bernie forgot to capitalize EARTH TO MAKE IT A PROPER NOUN
It was an expensive victory. Dems shelled out a total of $40,000,000 on it. With musky, the repubs spent about $50,000,000.
Who names a planet after dirt?
Most of it isn’t even covered in dirt. Should have named it Water, or at least Rock.
Great job Wisconsin!
Um ackshully, can you name a person wealthier than Elon Musk that’s ever stood on dirt, loam, soil, silt, or clay?
Checkmate atheists
Mansa Musa of Mali. His wealth was in the trillions. He basically showed up in Cairo with a bunch of his buddies in tow and spent so much and so lavishly including just handing out gold to everyone that he wrecked Egypt’s economy for a decade. He owned something like half the world gold reserves at the time.
That’s kind of a myth. Musa and the Mali empire were certainly wealthy for the time but you can’t really compare an emperor in the 14th century with a modern oligarch.
Musa liked to boast about his wealth at every opportunity. Like, he would tell people that gold grows like a plant in Mali while he threw gold bars at them. And all the reports of his immense wealth come from the people he encountered on his pilgrimage.
The amount of gold he brought (18 tons!) would be worth about $1.5B today. That was likely all of the gold the empire had collected during his reign. And it wasn’t technically his, it belonged to the empire.
The price of gold in Egypt dropped by about 15%, which was a lot but well within normal fluctuations. He also ran out of gold on the return trip and had to beg for loans which he never repaid.
i am glad a more liberal judge was elected to the supreme court, but she was backed by the democratic party. this is not a grassroots movement, its backed by an extremely rich party committee. this wasnt a david v goliath.
make Felon Musk bankrupt.
i feel like this YT short might help explain it.
Technically he is standing on earth unless he is standing on ice.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
While we’re on the topic, that’s not how colons work.
Banana@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
When you can smell his colon on your pillow 🥰
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You want pink eye? Cause that’s how you get pink eye
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sounds like true love to me
Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 3 weeks ago
Hot take I know, but I don’t think he should be shitting on your pillows.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
You had me scanning the image (of text without alt text: bad, OP! BAD!) for a
:pretty hard until I settled on The New York Times messagefor a while. Had me wondering how else The New York Times is supposed to write that, because it looks correct.
This is why quoting exists.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did you finally find the culprit?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sure, but: it was right there all along.
Separately, Elon might be on Earth, but he’s also someimes on earth. Although he’s more of an indoors boy.
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Yeah. Never managed to properly get the hand of punctuation.
vladmech@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For a person complaining about pedantic language stuff you’re really falling apart 😂
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Hang of, not hand of.
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s ok, my colon doesn’t work very well either.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
How would you write that, then?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pretty much the same, but without a colon.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
but,