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This is literally the passive voice

Active voice would be "Israeli strike kills two twins in Gaza as [their] father goes to register [their] birth" or something

The same reason people hate leftists, feminists, trans athletes, "gamer girls", people on welfare, blacks, etc. An image the right cultivated of the group, out of convenient easily-hateable annoying people in it that they could use to create a generalization/stereotype out of. It's something that's able to happen to any group, I could portray any hobbyist or activist in this way the same exact way as these "annoying" groups are portrayed, but the right is particularly willing to just flat out lie, slander, and cheat their way into making countercultural/anti-status-quo groups look as absurd as possible, to the point that the majority of the population falls for it (even those that don't consider themselves to be conservative).

I'll make a comparison. Conservative/"anti-sjw" thumbnails often have a picture of some angry-looking rainbow haired woman, usually the same few, in order to be like "look how irrational and crazy these feminazis are, she must hate men so much" and like 4 out of 5 of those times it's a picture of a woman that was protesting a literal neo-nazi gathering or something, not some sort of radical crazy man-hating feminist. But the internet has conditioned the average person to look at someone like that and immediately think they're an irrational "feminazi", and conservatives showing these pictures everywhere and making 100 videos on the same person makes people subconsciously believe they're rampant and have a massive (and bad) grip on society.

Same kind of thing happens with vegans, you have the same 10 or so internet vegans people use to portray veganism that conditions people to think poorly of the concept "vegan", and when these influencers are confronted about it they say "I don't hate veganism, I just hate the annoying vegans" then they go onto Twitter to complain about the vegans and how they're irrational for not eating meat and their brains must be de-evolving or something. They know what they're doing, but they can hide behind plausible deniability, and the majority of viewers fall for it.

exaggeratingly avoiding eye contact and making a stupid mouth expression is what overly dramatic/narcissistic people do to emphasize the hotness of their take, the sheer disagreeableness they presume their words or actions have

it's like "sorry not sorry" as an expression. it is pretentiousness incarnate. i think it's more of an adult pop-culture and person-with-radical-political-beliefs thing than a white person thing, it's the result of watching way too much american reality tv

Japan is an ultraconservative hellhole, their law & justice system is probably the most backwards in the first world. Their crime management is pretty much just fascism many times, extremely out of proportion punishments for the crimes, and if the government accuses you of something and it goes to trial, you're basically toast. They all but torture you while you're being processed, often times they use harsh treatment to try to force a confession out of you before trial. The state prosecutor also has no legal obligation to present all the facts, they have a lot of freedom to cherrypick and withhold information relevant to the trial in order to make the defendant look as guilty as possible.

They have a 99.8% criminal conviction rate.

Japanese inmates are often treated inhumanely, the way Japan treats prisoners regularly would be considered a human rights violation in most western countries.

Imagine how Republicans treat criminals, and multiply it by a hundred. Japanese society/government HATES anything that's out of order and does all it can to stamp out any "deviance" from norms. This usually results in them treating financial crimes, theft, drugs, etc. extremely harshly, but doing pretty much nothing about crimes like sexual harassment & sexual assault, which are kind of culturally prevalent or even slightly acceptable in Japan. Legally rape victims are treated far worse than rapists. You'd even probably be treated leniently for DUI as long as it wasn't a taboo/illegal drug (i.e., if it's alcohol).

The reason urban Japan seems so nice and orderly is similar to the reason that the streets of Pyongyang seem so clean and behaved. Extremely terrible treatment of people who step out of line, except in Japan it's mostly culturally than politically. There's a reason they're known for suicide and hikikomoris.

It is a very common misconception that Japan is very progressive because of anime and the extremely rampant sexualization/objectification of women in the form of cute/funny things like panty dispensing machines and wacky television game shows and cat girls, and in general Japanese stuff just being very bright and bouncy and all that. But it's very misleading, their culture obsessed with cuteness/"kawaii" stems from an attempt to radically and rapidly distance their cultural image from that of Imperial Japan. They definitely succeeded in changing the world's perception of them, but they didn't address their deep societal issues which were in part caused by the US basically controlling their politics after WW2.

I should point out though that not all Japanese prisons are dystopian torture chambers. But you still get very few rights and freedoms while imprisoned, even socializing may be completely forbidden.

I remember watching Techno every week for like 7 or 8 years straight. I was pretty sad when he died, I remember being at work seeing the notification "so long nerds" with a black screen and i was immediately like oh it's so over, but it took a minute of watching for it to really sink in that he was for real gone.

This kind of stuff is absolutely the number one failure of Democrats. They want to play fair and by the rules, so when there's opposition to their appointments they just lie down and accept it until the Republicans get exactly who they want. Meanwhile the Republicans will lie, cheat, and slander their way to anything they want, including getting ultra-conservatives in on positions that aren't supposed to be political.

Biden's been way better in this regard which is part of what makes him way better than previous Democrat presidents. But I still don't have high hopes for "the party of compromise" in getting progressives in these kinds of positions. In particular, we all remember what happened at the end of Obama's presidency with supreme court judges and Roe v Wade.

What do you mean women don't like a FOSS privacy-oriented user experience? Don't they like going through 500 pages of documentation when Gentoo breaks only to realize all along that the problem was fixed by turning the computer off and on again?

What do you mean men don't like that either?? What kind of place is this?!

The Republicans are getting cannibalized by their own voterbase. They've pushed their voters too far to the right, and now it's coming back to bite them in the ass. Whatever plausibly "moderate" views red politicians have now are going to be gone in a few years, if the Democrats winning the upcoming elections doesn't save them lol

The right have killed significantly more than communists. We just don't label it as murder when it's capitalists, because making "lower beings" suffer is the intended effect of capitalism. Why is it not capitalism's fault when conservative states fail catastrophically and cause the deaths of millions, but when a communist state fails it's suddenly socialism's problem?

Conservatives refuse to acknowledge that capitalism is built on mountains of bones, hubdreds of millions of bones at least, and is still completely dysfunctional. Their criticism of better ideologies is just projection of that.

The words themselves make sense but... not for lemmy.world lmao

Ukraine is the rightful successor to the Kyjivan Rus' and the Soviet Union, therefore they should get the UN permanent member seat and all of the former USSR's belongings, including Moscow. Do I get a medal now?

Off the top of my head, a lot. @FlyingSquid, @The_Picard_Maneuver, @AngryCommieKender, @captainlezbian, @DragonTypeWyvern, @Cryophilia, @masquenox, @jimmydoreisalefty, @SatansMaggotyCumFart, @BonesOfTheMoon, @1984, @Cryophilia, @Nurse_Robot. Some of them just have very memorable or kick-ass names (Nurse Robot? Why didn't I think of that???), and some of them are unavoidable on the site.

I also usually remember the active conservative and "centrist" specimens on this site, like intensely_human, IsThisAnAI, TubularTittyFrog, SpaceCowboy, Melvin_Ferd. I tend to strongly disagree with them a lot.

The original post is NOT Scots, please don't spread misinformation about the language more than internet people already have. Scots writing looks way different than this. The post is just English with some of the words being spelled eye-dialecty.

Among other things, you can tell by all the English words like "standing", "light", "thought", which would be "staun(d)in", "licht", and "thocht" in Scots (although "standing" could probably be used too). Reading the Scots Wikipedia page in Scots should make it obvious

Relevant Scots drama from a few years back

NO!!! must... imprison... minorities...

Very common first and last name in Russia and the former Russian Empire / USSR

When you have this problem communicating with everyone, you’re the problem.

Not really, when you're in the minority of course you're going to be outnumbered. But autistic people tend to have an easy time getting their point across to each other, compared to neurotypicals trying to have a mutual understanding. Neurotypicals tend to be very performative in conversation and don't really say things they actually intend to contribute to the conversation half the time (small talk is a form of this that has gone way too far). They're also usually evasive & implicitness-oriented, the cultural nuances/expectations/perceptions of the "right" and "wrong" way to convey something tend to get in the way of understanding very straightforward and mostly objective things. They're generally pretty condescending when you don't converse how they expect you to, and they judge a lot about your character, emotions, intentions, etc. based on how you speak, and will speak to you very differently based on outside factors. You can take 100 almost-strangers, and neurotypicals will speak in noticeably different ways with different amounts of honesty and indirection for each person in the otherwise same context.

Instead of just saying what they mean and listening to what you say, they throw in a bunch of random culture-dependent social cues and context irrelevant to the conversation that you're supposed to subconsciously/naturally pick up on to interpret their speech in a different way. And you're basically just supposed to guess whether something is socially significant indirection or not.

Neurotypicals basically just have the urge make simple conversation unnecessarily complex and care a lot about invisible or implied stuff affecting the conversation. It's not their fault of course, they were just born that way.

I don't have ASD but I can't keep count of the amount of times I will say something very plainly and the other person will try to find some hidden meaning in it or make egregious misinterpretations/false dichotomies based on a statement (basically the "i like pancakes" "so you hate waffles"? tweet), so I can relate. Autistic people are usually far more direct in conversations in my experience, and don't use nearly as much fluff/unnecessary performative conversation. Of course that's not to say Autistic people are just flat out better socially than neurotypicals, there are many things I personally find difficult to understand about friends with ASD that can make conversation hard (mainly people who have both ASD and ADHD though, not a fun combo for having conversations, getting ultra-fixated on random irrelevant stuff and just flat out omitting important things frequently even worse than neurotypicals do), it's just that they're usually very straightforward.

They're a troll who posts a bunch of pseudointellectual/pseudophilosophical comments saying stupid shit mentioning quantum physics or lambda calculus or euclidean geometry or other fancy looking math words

Japanese employers are currently under a major "crisis", that crisis being that Gen Z employees won't work 20-40 extra hours in a week unpaid, won't participate in corporate family culture "bonding with your boss" bullshit, wont take ｢no, I refuse your notice of quitting｣ as an answer, actually report workplace (sexual) harassment, among other things. Except unlike in America, the employers in Japan are actually having to adapt to employees respecting themselves because their population is on the brink of collapse from not having enough young people lol, they don't just have other people they can hire. Obviously because of the unbearable work "culture" which doesn't allow you to have a family life, combined with the rampant sexism against women throughout Japanese society and culture keeping them from interacting with men.

European cops are possibly significantly worse than American cops when it comes to protests. Especially in Italy/Germany/Austria

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"left propaganda" BAHAHAHA that's like complaining about seeing people using science in their daily lives or talking about science and calling it science propoganda

being right-wing is inherently irrational and anti-science, there is no room to complain about "left propoganda" especially when UBI isn't even inherently leftist, UBI still exists solely to prop up a broken capitalist system making it live on the right of the political spectrum. left propaganda would be advocating for socialism or something, this is just advocating for welfare capitalism (which has been proven to be far better for the populace than other forms of capitalism in use).

this post doesn't even state an opinion on UBI though, so it's weird that you took it as "propoganda", or even "political". it's literally just proportions. it's really hard to take someone who's saying "the objective truth is just political propaganda" seriously.

I feel as though the "human trafficking" part is more important than the bourgeois dog, why isn't that in the headline? Or specifying the work hours or exact pay (under $8/day)?

Are you seriously comparing clothing and makeup to skin color and ethnicity my guy?

Blackface demonizes/makes fun of being black. Drag does not demonize femininity; quite the opposite actually. Your logic doesn't logic.

Considering you post a lot of porn of women with objectifying remarks all over your profile, it's unsurprising you have misogynistic views... at least keep them to yourself man.

The calorie used to be the base unit, until we released in the 19th century "wait, heat isn't a gas" and threw out caloric theory, and made the joule. Now the calorie is defined as 4.184 joules.

Security guards are often losers wanting to feel like they have power who tried to become cops but failed. It's to an extent where you'll frequently see them (often illegally) put flashing lights on their "security vehicle" and plaster decals meant to mimic those of police on it. Some of them even buy a bunch of stolen police equipment to wear around them and put in their car. A large portion of the people that get arrested and charged with impersonating law enforcement is security guards. It's sad but it's also disgusting the lengths they will go to cosplay for their power trip.

These kinds of people are way more trigger happy than normal.

It's a lot better not to participate in rape culture and risk committing sexual assault, rather than submit to a woman perpetuating toxic masculinity, ngl. I wouldn't want to be the person to get raped just because other people think that accepting "no" for an answer is for pussies.

This likely isn't far from the truth, "straightness" is very much associated with culture being oppressive/biased against queerness, and most modern theory on the matter concludes that in a vacuum pansexuality, to varying degrees, is the "norm", and that near-complete heterosexuality and homosexuality are the outliers. Similar thing with monogamy, humans are likely to exhibit non-monogamous behaviours if there's no cultural influence involved – in fact, humans are the only great apes and one of the very few (in the single digits) simians to be observed participating in monogamy. Pretty much every species that is similar to us is primarily or almost entirely non-monogamous.

Outside of cultural pressures for or against certain sexual behaviours, you generally see pansexual and polygamous tendencies in most of the population – although pansexuality isn't as common as non-monogamy, in both humans and other primates; but it is still common in apes in general – especially bonobos, who are extremely similar to humans behaviourally and in the most related genus to us, are extremely social even for primates, and who have demonstrated many archaic human behaviours & advancements, even making/utilizing hunting tools like spears and stone tools devoid of any human influence.

Anyways heterosexuality being the norm is likely mostly the product of cultural pressures rather than "nature". And if we were to somehow magically erase cultural pressures or even the construct of sexuality, most people would exhibit at least somewhat pansexual behaviours, even if they had a strong preference for one sex/gender/whatever the fuck you wanna call it.

*Fun fact, bonobos have been shown to be able to competently & rationally communicate in complex English (complex, as in around as well as a conversational/intelligent 3-year old) and can even understand & respond to human speech accurately; they can have a lexicon of hundreds of words, associate those words with concrete ideas/real objects with near-100% accuracy, and distinguish "fake" words from "real" words in English speech. They're the only non-human animals to have been proven to have the ability to actually understand and communicate in human language (both with humans and with other bonobos), and understand human spoken language. They're also in the stone age (an equivalent of it, at least) and can be observed in the wild making intentionally cutting-edge tools (unlike chimps), and also have separately been trained to manufacture Oldowan human archeological industry stone tools and have found ways to use them, but I'm more interested in linguistics than that. It's kind of sad that people sensationalize fraudulent cases of alleged human language comprehension in other non-humans, like Koko the gorilla, when you have the actual phenomenon legitimately right here... It's also sad that bonobos and chimpanzees are caught in the middle of human warfare in the Congo and are being hunted for meat, and are predicted to become extinct within a few decades because of humans... a majority of simians/anthroform primates are likely to go extinct soon, both because they're being eaten and because they're being sold off as exotic pets. We're literally hunting, slave trading, and cannibalizing our closest relatives to extinction, some of which are capable of early human-like thought & society/culture and spontaneous invention of technology only ever seen in archaic humans.

I say we do this: Bonobos in capitivity can already light fires, and they use that cook food. Bonobos and chimapnzees are also highly cultural & social animals, and tool production & cultural customs have been observed to spread within groups and between groups (even of different great ape species/families). We should teach a group or a few of bonobos this skill, watch it spread, and destroy humanity and store the survivors in vats or something. Then, in a few million years, bonobos will have evolved modern human intelligence and sophisticated futuristic technology, and then they'd bring us back to life and out of the vats into the future. And then boom, humans and future bonobos live together happily forever after. It'll be just like Stellaris (not the genocide part though). I'm only joking of course...

Web bloat in a nutshell and why we need to switch to things like Web Assembly more than ever. It's not WASM, but I used Laminar which is a Scala.js library, and it's the absolute pinnacle of (frontend) web development. Scala in general is just really great for idiomatic web code, its flexibility is unbeatable.

Another amazing alternative would be anything Rust. In fact I've used that much more than Scala for web. I've mainly used Leptos for full-stack and and Actix for backend, but I've seen Dioxus and Axum in good use and they both seem really great too.

Apparently Lemmy uses Leptos for its UI so... that's a +1.

For a lot of English speakers, the "had" and "have" in contractions is completely omitted in certain contexts. It's more prevalent in some dialects (I'm in the south US and it's more common than not). Usually "had" is dropped more than "have".

Also, English can drop the pronoun, article, and even copula for certain indicative statements. I think it's specifically for observations, especially when the context is clear.

looking at someone's bracelet "Cool bracelet." [That's a]

wakes up "sigh Gotta get up and go to work..." [I've]

"Ain't no day for picking tomatoes like a Saturday." [There]

"No war but class war!" [There's]

"Forecast came in on the radio. Says there's gonna be a hell of a lot of rain today." [It said -> Says/Said]

"Can't count the number of Brits I've killed. Guess I'm just allergic to beans on toast." [I; I]

"House came tumblin' down after the sinkhole opened up" [The]

"I'd" can be "I would", mainly if used with a conditional or certain conjunctions/contrastive statements (if, but, however, unfortunately). Also when preceding "have" – e.g. "I'd have done that". Because "I had have" doesn't make sense, nor does "I had " anything. "I'd" as in "I had" is followed by a past participle.

"I'd" is usually "I had" otherwise, forming the past perfect tense. But in "I'd better", it's a bit confusing because "had better" is used in a different sense – the "had" here comes from "have to" (as in "to be necessary to") and can be treated as both a lexical verb and an auxiliary verb. "had better" is a bit of a leftover of more archaic constructions.

What the hell is "woke"? Isn't that just normal?

A large portion of medical practicioners are absolutely fucking insane. It's no wonder people have a massive distrust of healthcare. How is it possible that medical research and medical practice have such vastly different kinds of people in them?

It's scary when you realize that a medical degree is just a degree like any other, and that a lot of those people went through college the same way as any other person, probably not paying attention 90% of the time, and cheating on most of their assignments... your likelihood of having a dysfunctional doctor is about the same as your likelihood of having a dysfunctional tech support specialist.

I would say this is because Trump's potential voterbase doesn't give a damn about having a competent, sane candidate. Biden's potential voterbase has significantly higher standards. It's easy to point out that there could theoretically be a better-performing candidate than Biden, but I don't think it's so easy to find someone that will get more conservative voter engagement than Trump.

mfw non-commutativeness

It's hard for Republicans to argue against... but I imagine that would make environmentalists and people who want universal healthcare pretty annoyed. I mean most of those people will probably go out and vote Harris either way

Tax/fine Google more and give the profits to competitors like Mozilla (as long as those competitors use the funds for Firefox)

Glad to hear that your lobotomy was successful!

We could all collectively decide to chop the heads off of the elite. We don't need to argue about which capitalist is better every 4 years. There's nothing physically stopping 90% of the country from just overthrowing the other 10% if we really tried together

Shapiro is also very anti-Palestine and centrist so... nobody wants him if they can have Walz instead. Walz has accomplished far more positive things than Shapiro.

We need actual social democrats. The great things our nation has weren't the things brought on by centrism, but by progressives like FDR. Tim Walz is just that kind of guy. Democrats need people who won't dedicate their career to attempting bipartisanship or "reaching across the aisle" when the other side of the aisle is the alt-right, and they need someone who isn't controlled by corporate money. Because that kind of refusal to fight back against the right is what got the US into the mess it's in now. Tim Walz doesn't sucker up to fascists, as opposed to centrist Democrats.

Is this the r/linguistics logo bird

Congress passing the Taft-Hartley act and then overriding Truman's veto of it to enact laws to cripple unions (which made important union activities illegal, like solidarity strikes, jurisdictional strikes, and mass picketing) and basically completely fucked up unions, before Reagan went ahead and fucked them up even more than previously thought possible again

McCarthyism

Citizens United v. FEC