To be fair to two of those people with something i learned as a Vermonter there is no idiot like a New Hampshire idiot.

Not the hyphen specifically - just a distinct symbol for contractions.

How to Respond to a Question on Title Capitalization: A Brief Commentary

It isn’t normal to capitalize every first letter… it’s normal to capitalize nearly every first letter.

George HW Bush: notable woke radical.

I think it’s a great idea not to idolize strangers. You say you liked Elon but folks in tech have always known he’s a piece of shit and some of his oldest “friends” (i.e. Thiel) fucking loathe him.

Wealth, generally, fucks people up so it’s good to avoid the wealthy and famous as a default rule…

Why not appreciate people around you, friends, family, your mail folk - these people are much more impactful on your life and their kindnesses in your times of need have the potential to be life saving.

So you’re of the opinion that somehow by making five hundred austerity cuts saving two million dollars each the GOP will shave a trillion from the budget? Is Trump going to increase or decrease the deficit in your mind?

The democrats are fiscally conservative. The GOP believes in budget unbalancing tax cuts and are fiscally liberal.

I assume they vote liberal or are uncomfortable being seen as the hateful sack of shit they are.

If we’re talking America the parties align like this:

• Democrat: Socially moderate, fiscally conservative
• Republican: Socially regressive, fiscally liberal

The majority of Americans didn’t vote to keep Trump out of office.

It’s likely they’ve done something like enter every email he ever received into evidence just to fuck with the defense.

I’d be cool with that - I don’t care how we mark contractions just as long as we stop reusing apostrophes for it.

Eh - I thought dash was a pretty reasonable symbol for “There’s a contraction here” I don’t really care about the actual symbol as long as we stop using the same symbol for contractions and possessives. In my sample It-s would currently be written It's and the it's (a possessive) would be its if that’s what you’re asking.

Possessives always get an apostrophe outside of weird exceptions where they clash with contractions. I’m proposing we fix that. Also - let’s bring back mass possessions like “At the bake sale Moms’ baked goods are always delicious”

Sure, Yale boy - I’m certain you really had to struggle to feed your family in your teens.

The pyramids mostly take care of themselves - most of the Roman sites were destroyed because people needed stone, and its easier to get pre-quarried stuff than dig it out of the ground yourself.

Our reverence of past architecture is a pretty modern trend - and the amount of work it’d take to keep repainting and gilting these ancient buildings is unreasonable if they aren’t useful.

The materials being repurposed is pretty awesome though, it sucks to lose old buildings but being able to reconstruct where stones from a given ended up going and them receiving care and maintenance in their new homes is better than the material being outright destroyed… and it helps weave history into our everyday lives.

One interesting debate you can follow right now (ish, it’s mostly been settled) is the repatriation of totem polls that were stolen from Haida and Coastal Salish peoples… there was a debate about trying to preserve them in museums or returning them to the tribes where they’ll serve their purpose and weather away to nothing. A takeaway from this discussion is that, if you have nothing else, it’s not a bad idea to try and preserve items so that future people can appreciate them… but there are also active totem carvers alive and passing on the knowledge today - it’s better to provide funding to keep the artform alive.

The inconsistency of apostrophe usage in English for possessives and contractions. If it was instead written…

It-s a wonderful day out today, take your phone but turn off it’s data so you can soak up the clear blue skies.

It’d be so much fucking easier and my OCD would be satiated.

It’s always a bit reassuring to see that even in private the assholes are actually just assholes and it isn’t an act they put on for the political stage. None of these fuckers are redeemable.

I guess the one piece of good news? (Gosh it’s fucking slim) is that if there is a Democratic president in the future they can mandate national voting by mail if the SC doesn’t injunction this bullshit.

I agree that the N-word is far worse - I didn’t mean to equate them but to use it as a point of comparison. The really fucking hateful and widespread usages of the n-word mostly date back to the 70s - it’s now used almost exclusively by badge wearing racists… so it has had about fifty years of pop culture non-hateful uses but is still clearly unacceptable.

The R-word was seeing widespread usage a mere twenty years ago - it’s still part of the active memory of millennials and older.

An interesting comparison might be gypsy (I type it out only because I can’t think of a clear way to abbreviate it) which is seen as an unacceptable slur (especially in the verb form) which had fallen out of social use in the 50s - even that word (though it is less openly hateful) is still pretty unacceptable.

It’s a similar story for other less common racial slurs - once a word becomes such a hateful slur it seems like the most common social response is to just abandon it with reclamation being a rarity and confined to the in group in every case I can think of (the n-word and the f-word both have gained some usage within their communities but it isn’t universal… I have an extremely negative memory of the f-word which makes me uncomfortable even when people I trust use it).

Barring transit delayed mail-in ballots is 100% the way these fucks will steal the next election.

I hope Vermont doesn’t deregister me - thankfully voting administration is done by the individual states so they’ll likely push back on the EO but I’m absolutely not going to fly to Burlington to prove my identity in person.

I think they mean recession.

(They actually mean that word from the 90s for developmentally challenged if you’re truly unaware).