snooggums

Has an old man encouraged you to take a ring to Mordor?

That is an organic language, natural is only an extra dollar…

English seems to lean in a lot harder and consistently as time goes on compared to other languages.

DAM!

As flawed as things are now (and there will always be a need to improve and fight injustice) slavery has been abolished,

Except in prisons

all men and women can vote,

Except for the ones who can’t because of felonies that are arbitrarily decided to be disqualifying.

child labor abolished,

Except for family businesses, and if you haven’t noticed Republicans are bringing child labor back.

40 hour work week,

Except for exempt employees.

gay marriage legal.

Conservatives are working on getting this overturned just like they overturned Roe v Wade.

Yeah, we aren’t as shitty as we were 250 years ago but the gains we have made in those centuries is pretty fucking basic. We still have massive problems and Republicans and their half of the voting population are working turelessly to bring back the absolute worst things.

Yes, I have read history.

Yes, I was pointing out why you shouldn’t try to convince yourself to think that there is any possible chance of a positive coming out of this.

Any reasonable court would equate requiring a warrant and requiring payment in the context of the 4th amendment (and similar rights/laws in other countries).

You should read some US history if you think that is going to happen.

At best there will be slight improvement for a couple decades while nobody in the administration or who helped to destroy the government suffers any consequences and they just do it all over again.

A ton of things I have signed up for spam me with trash emails that they don’t put in the ‘sales’ or ‘offers’ categories I unchecked. Just because I was forced to create an account to buy one thing doesn’t mean I have a ‘business relatiotionship’ that justifies multiple daily reminders of what they have in stock.

Those companies would get in legal trouble in the US if they admitted to doing it intentionally by calling it a bait and switch. They hide behind legal shenanigans like putting ‘limited supplies’ in fine print.

Everybody hates being on the receiving end of bait and switch. Nobody thinks it is clever except the person committing fraud, and they hate it when someone does it to them.

Bait and switch is literally promosing something and fhen replacing it with something else, which is what happened here. It doesn’t imply any cleverness and has extremely negative connotations.

There’s a Ye Power Tripping Bastards community on dbzero. I did know how to link at one point but forgot so this probably doesn’t work: https://lemmy.world/c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Bait and switch is a specific type type of fraud.

No way! People can type whatever they want?

I love the modlog because it frequently shows both users and mods can be lying. A user who claims they were banned for something other than racism who has three racist comments that the mods deleted or admins of a certain instance who claim any criticism of China is bigotry.

In this case I was entertained by the modlog entry. ‘Spreading lies in other communities’ is pretty funny.

“I don’t understand that inexperienced people are inexperienced.”

Assuming they are referring to new graduates.

I just can’t upvote this trash story even though you are correct about the usual reason for upvoting posts even when the subject matter is terrible.

You can look yourself up on the modlog to see why you were banned, except in rare cases where they didn’t federate the ban.

I love the public facing modlog.

The best thing about college is that for the most part a degree is a degree and only a few fields require one specific to that occupation. So if something seems interesting enough to complete the degree it will be useful for a lot of other fields too.

Exile from such a group sounds like a win to me, but then again I don’t understand religious wackos.