I’m in the process of being diagnosed as an adult, and I feel very validated as I relate to this very much.

Yikes

The censorship on Tiktok is crazy. The AI based comment removal is completely arbitrary - for example, I once had a comment removed for calling a public figure a walnut. Meanwhile, the comments are absolutely packed with the most vile comments. In particular, for content relating to my country there are thousands of comments openly celebrating and glorifying the deaths of migrants and some seriously explicitly racist rhetoric. It leads to people using silly workarounds to content filters that must be trivially easy to identify automatically, but aren’t, raising the question of why bother with such extreme censorship in the first place?

Goodbye, sweet prince

My understanding is that “persons” refers to people in discrete groups, where what separates those groups is pertinent to the topic being discussed.

For example - ‘indigenous persons’ refers collectively to indigenous people, but acknowledges that there are separate subgroups of indigenous people within that. You could equally say “indigenous people” and it would be correct but you lose that nuance by not acknowledging that there are internal divisions within the group you are referring to.

Not saying that’s the dictionary definition, but that’s how it’s generally used in my field.

As an outsider looking in, I’ve seen a lot of footage of rallies and events (on both sides) that are just absolutely crazy to me. Almost dystopian. People with painted faces, all kinds of merch, hollering and shouting and cheering like it’s the X Factor or a rock concert or something. You see people being interviewed outside the events and it’s like a festival in the background. It’s really, really bizarre. We have problems with our politics here too but not like that. I can’t believe that all of those people are ACTUALLY that passionate about any policies themselves, it’s just vague culture wars nonsense with a bizarre personality contest as a proxy for it.

As I say, I’m not trying to act superior. My country has its share of problems too, just a very different sort.

Ur… Yeah?

I think this tips it over the edge for me to switch to Firefox

Would it be worth reaching out to them on social media? Something like this would be great PR for them.

I do. Comments like his are actively contributing towards the racist violent disorder taking place right now. It’s disgusting.

Puffins always remind me of the Gordon Ramsay video where he cooks one and it looks delicious.

TIL it isn’t pronounced Jizz Lane. I’ve literally never heard it before (UK)

I’ve heard of people’s accents changing after receiving a brain injury. Whether that’s more likely than some form of attention seeking, who knows.

Not in Europe. Everyone just uses WhatsApp, even with an iPhone.