Themadbeagle

@Themadbeagle@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audubon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Take my breakdown with a grain of salt, as I did not dig into all of it, owing to the quantity of citations. Picking some at random, I found a mix between sources contemporary to the time period and ones that are secondary. I did not check the relevancy of the wiki quite, this was just 15 minutes of snooping around.

  This one was interesting as it claims it was minutes from a meeting of a contemporary society called the the American Philosophical Society.

  [103] Ord, George (1840). “Minutes from the Stated Meeting, September 18 [1840]”. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 1: 272.

  They still seem to be running to this day, and sound like they have a long history in the US. Not to say they are trustworthy, I know nothing about them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linguistic Perscriptivists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Be mad then I guess lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linguistic Perscriptivists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hate the idea of saying corrected in this context. There is really no right and wrong in language iself. Standardized language is not some “correct” way to speak, but a common guide to try to help an individual be understood by more people. Someone not following standard is not wrong, just maybe difficult to comprehend due to not following convention. I think in one off mistakes that are hard to understand, it is better to thinking in terms of asking for clarification. In more consistent problems of understanding, I think explaining (which is not the same as correcting) to them a more conventional way of speaking to easy future communication is the best path.

  Also equating individuals unique linguistic quirks to cancer is gross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Superheroes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew exactly what video that would link to before I clicked. Great video, glad to see someone else reference it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[C-SPAN] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Articles of Impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito (13:37)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the idea, but I highly doubt this is why they are not there in practice. I could be wrong as this is just purely speculative on my part, but I don’t have a lot of faith in most US politicians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is anti drugs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry some of us have empathy. You ever been in a room with someone dying an early death? Also thinking something is invalid because of spelling mistakes is incredibly childish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is anti drugs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No one is admitting defeat, they are just telling you to stop focusing on the symptoms and start focusing in the problem. You want to address drug misuse problems in western society? Start by addressing the problems that actually highly correlated with it. Help for unhoused persons. Better mental health systems. Those two things alone could curb a huge majority of drug misuse. If you take care of the symptoms then the problem will be mostly solved without need for any criminalization, be it criminalizing supply or demand. For the rest of people I think more funding of rehabilitation and drug education (and no, just telling people to abstain from drugs is not good education, just like abstinence is not good sex education).