This. I have *asked* to speak French in the US because they think it’s exotic and pretty and whatever (and mind you I speak Quebec French - which most people in Canada do not think is pretty).

No one steals jobs. Employers hire people.

I have a co-worker that behaves much the same way, and it baffles me. She’s black, her kid is mixed, and her sister is a lesbian but yet she regularly shits on immigrants and the gay community. I’ve just never understood how the cognitive dissonance doesn’t vibrate her to pieces, I guess.

We are mysterious people, we steal jobs but we are lazy.

Fun fact: I lived in the US for 2 years, routinely spoke my native french everywhere with friends that were here with me, stole one of y’all jobs for a while, and weirdly enough, nobody ever told me to speak english. People usually swooned and squee’d.

But sure, it’s not racist ^^

I’ve argued with my wife, who thinks Hilary only lost because she was a woman, for 4 years. The lack of support for Ms. Warren, who is far and away the most qualified and most deserving candidate in this election, has ended my argument.

“From the day I first sat across the table from her, discussing why she should run for Senate, I knew that Elizabeth Warren was exactly the kind of person we need in office. She has run her campaign the way she has governed: with a clear vision for how to build a better America, a plan to put power in the hands of…

I’ve had a US customs agent ask me about each stamp in my passport, pressing for details on each trip and trying to trip me up. I think they held me there for like 15 minutes with this jack-assery. I literally have no idea why, but they did it anyway.

Easiest way to think about it is that your passport doesn’t actually belong to you. It’s issued to you on behalf of the country of your citizenship and is an official Government document. Treat your passport like your smartphone. Don’t do crap to it that would cause problems if you turned it back in, and you’ll be…

Articles like this remind me that people are stupid, and common sense isn’t so common.

I feel a bit surprised that anyone thought that it could be a fun idea to permanently add non-official things to a document that in many countries is a valid identification. Would anyone think it a good idea to make permanent markings on ones driving license as a memory of a long road trip? And if they did so, would…

Sapir-Whorf may be debunked, but no amount of linguists can stop me from shipping Bashir/Worf.

IIRC she does a lot of talking/pointing to words, and continues to speak as she writes to communicate in both formats. Am I misremembering?

They didn’t care about the pronunciation, at all. The decided that written form is easier to teach than the spoken, because the symbols are static and easier to duplicate. They stopped trying to teach the aliens spoken words entirely, and likewise stopped trying to understand their speech, instead focusing entirely on…

NDT has become “the commenter who didn’t read the whole article.”

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Jeremy Renner’s block-of-wood lack of charisma makes him easy to miss.

Is anyone dunking on him for calling them “septopoids” instead of the correct heptapods? I would look myself, but... Twitter. *shudder*

The real irony here is that cops are most likely to be killed by Nazis, yet they identify with often are them.

The real irony here is that cops are most likely to be killed by Nazis, yet they identify with them.