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  • “A kid being sick is one thing”

    You just wrecked your whole argument and put the flaw to OP and all the kid-free people here.

    If your opinion is that “a kid being sick is one thing” then all we’re talking about here is degree of consideration, not whether to consider or not.

    OP and others here are acting like having a kid is some get out of work card. “This one weird trick drives bosses insane!!”

    It very well may be the case that parents get a little more grace, but chances are that the boss has kids too. Because it starts with “a kid being sick is one thing.”












  • ristoril_zip@lemmy.ziptoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat word or term annonys you?
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    2 months ago

    The question was “what term annoys you” not “what term annoys you that you’re sure Lemmy will approve of” (or that a malignant narcissist billionaire isn’t also annoyed by).

    I’m open to an explanation of a commonplace situation where it’s necessary to have a separate word for “is of the gender that matches that assigned at birth.”

    To me it’s like if I say I enjoyed the sunrise" and someone says, “you mean the Earth sunrise?”

    I mean yeah, sunrises happen all over the solar system, there are different kinds of sunrises, probably all beautiful in their own ways, but in general the default “sunrise” a human is likely to be talking about is the one we experience on Earth.


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    “cis” I feel like it’s an extra term for “straight”. The “default” for lack of a better term (and one that isn’t othering) is near the not trans & not gay part of the gender / sexuality spectra. To me everyone in that zone is “straight” (boring/default/whatever).

    begs the question” because people exclusively use it wrong. Just say “leads to the question” or “poses the question.”

    And I’m still really salty about everyone giving up on the term “literally” to allow it to mean its exact opposite.






  • Is your question why a propaganda operation focused on disrupting or presidential elections would “go live” 18-ish months before the presidential election?

    And are you asking if I have specific evidence that they’re trolls? Or that the governments I’ve listed have troll farms? Or that specifically HB is specifically rife with trolls from this governments’ farms? Because I definitely don’t have specific evidence. Just the historical evidence of (attempted) general interference from those countries in our previous elections.


  • I think HB and some of the other groups are mostly trolls or Russian, Chinese, Iranian, North Korean, or aligned operatives trying to gas up trolls or wannabe trolls.

    There are definitely some well meaning Americans and others who get suckered into the bullshit tornado that is those sites. They are definitely worth saving if we can. But it’s hard. They ban and block anyone with a dissenting voice no matter how calmly presented.