Trump has waffled on whether the Israel-Gaza war should end. But speaking to wealthy donors behind closed doors, he said that he supports Israel’s right to continue “its war on terror.”...
This isn't an example of how modern English is going to the dogs. Less has been used this way for well over a thousand years—nearly as long as there's been a written English language. But for more than 200 years almost every usage writer and English teacher has declared such use to be wrong. The received rule seems to have originated with the critic Robert Baker, who expressed it not as a law but as a matter of personal preference. Somewhere along the way—it's not clear how—his preference was generalized and elevated to an absolute, inviolable rule.
doubling down on the stance of not understanding linguistics isn't the play you seem to think it is
the wikipedia article on zionism is several thousand words long, and you seem to think it's possible to accurately boil that down to a one or two sentence dictionary entry
I’m sure Republicans have many definitions for a liberal.
it's more that they don't have a definition at all
they use it similarly to "woke", in that its a nebulous word that takes on any given meaning that they want given the context
if you tried to distill its myriad of uses into an actual definition you'd get something like "person i disagree with to the point of dislike", at which point the dumb part becomes making an assertion as utterly vacuous as "i don't like people i don't like"
you're not avoiding excessive detail in a definition due to a limited character space, you're saying that a word can literally only ever have the precise meaning ascribed to it by the dictionary
those are two completely different things and it's astonishing that you would even try to make an argument that bad after opening this discussion with "i'm sure you can do better than that"
i'm not trying to justify my use of language, i'm explaining why you're wrong, and you're responding by gesturing vaguely towards the concept of a dictionary
The Biden administration has concluded it is “reasonable to assess” that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has violated international law, but has not found specific instances that would justify the withholding of military aid, the State Department told Congress on Friday....
if there were some figures i could fiddle to fit that narrative, do you think that would mean that cutting down 250 acres of forest would actually be worth it rather than a convenience somebody has gussied up as "necessary" because it would make them a profit?
which is wild, because there's clearly a lot of talent there that was just spunked up the wall trying to create a game that any idiot could see right from the outset was conceptually awful
i'm not defending tate he deserves to rot in prison
i'm saying that a government shouldn't have the power to just dump you in prison without having a reason for it
when tate was initially arrested he was held for months without being charged
being absolutely fine with a system that allows that because in this instance it happened to fall onto a guy you don't like is brain rot
you think the osu protestors that were just released without being charged would've been released at all without a law requiring them to be charged within 24 hours?
banning and deleting your multiple accounts troll accounts defending Tate
i have literally no idea what you're talking about and it makes you sound unhinged
yeah but ultimately it doesn't matter because the end product is good on the whole
i feel those kinds of details are exactly what meddlers would want to meddle in, when the entire argument of the article is that the game manages to be good on the whole not despite its lack of meddlers but because of it
if you respond to "touch grass" with anything along the lines of an imperious "hah what fallacious and illogical reasoning" while pushing up your glasses on the bridge of your nose like an anime villain, then yes i think it might be meadow time for you
you can be incredibly passionate while still having mbas breathing down your neck
if you don't think there was a ratio of developers to neck-breathers of at best 2:1 at blizzard you have more faith in their internal management than me
Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators (www.washingtonpost.com)
Trump has waffled on whether the Israel-Gaza war should end. But speaking to wealthy donors behind closed doors, he said that he supports Israel’s right to continue “its war on terror.”...
It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language. (lemmy.world)
Biden slams ICC prosecutor’s ‘outrageous’ request for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, Netanyahu (www.thehill.com)
Wrong Goons in the right place (lemmy.ca)
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The State Department said that Israel's military campaign in Gaza may have violated international law. (www.nytimes.com)
The Biden administration has concluded it is “reasonable to assess” that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has violated international law, but has not found specific instances that would justify the withholding of military aid, the State Department told Congress on Friday....
Climate protesters try to break into Tesla's Germany factory, multiple people arrested (www.cnbc.com)
Online dating apps be like (lemmy.world)
Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Forcibly displacing Rafah civilians would be war crime, France warns Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Man or cartoon, still my first crush (lemmy.world)
'Deeply unhappy' grocery shoppers plan to boycott Loblaw-owned stores in May (www.ctvnews.ca)
A boycott targeting Loblaw is gaining momentum online, with what could be thousands of shoppers taking their money elsewhere in May.
Andrew Tate and brother Tristan to be tried in Romania on rape and trafficking charges (www.bbc.com)
The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook (www.pcgamer.com)