I’m surprised that people need to be taught this.

Mandatory minimum laws are obscene in all instances.

Did this guy fuck up and deserve to go to jail? Certainly.

There’s two problems with that though.

I’d have some concern that her fans might decide to try it themselves, dress and act as she does, and get injured/dead (many people are allergic but may not know it).

After detailed and thoughtful analysis like this, I really don’t understand why the “debate” continued and became so toxic and aggressive.

Well, Minecraft speedrun is all the rage back then. Many streamer attempt to do it live and compete with each other from succeeding a sub 1 hour time to slowly reach sub 30min time speedrun

After detailed and thoughtful analysis like this, I really don’t understand why the “debate” continued and became so toxic and aggressive

Here’s a great and easily approachable video that really explains the statistics of the debacle:

90% of my fiction books are Sci-Fi or Fantasy sub-genre plays a role

You’ll understand when you’re older, and NO, I don’t mean that in a shitty patronizing way. I reread because I sometimes don’t remember whodunit. Also, comfort reading during a pandemic is very... comforting. Barbara Michaels and Armistead Maupin got me through cancer. I’ve reread both at least twice.

Consider this wild idea: Arranging your books like they are actual BOOKS with CONTENT that you’re actually interested in: By subject and then author!

Arranging books by colour is book arranging for people who do not read!

The real problem is Paradox business model, in my opinion. It’s unique, and apparently works, but every single DLC they launch better be perfect, since they rely on dlc sales, and keep making them for years and years, intead of working in a sequel or new IP. Stellaris is from 2015, and the most recent dlc for the game…

Not sure I would call that buff? Seems like he just lost a ton of weight instead.

Well, sure, but that’s an ambiguous construction no matter what. In your particular example I would assume the pirates were falling upon the captain, because it would be weird to say that an individual fell upon a group like a storm rather than the opposite. Sure, you could save that sentence by saying “The captain…

Fun article, but I feel like the problem is anyone who needs convincing isn’t going to be convinced by any kind of reason. They are having an emotional reaction to something that isn’t about them, and it’s very hard to change that with any sort of discussion.

When talking directly to an individual, you say “you are”, not “you is”. Using “are” for a single person is already common usage.

And in particular, what verb tense do you use??? If talking about a non-binary person, do I say “They IS a Capricorn,” or “They ARE a Capricorn?”

The examples you give, which are possessive (“their locker” and “their car”), as well as most historic examples (ex., using “they” to describe an unknown person: “every one to rest themselves betake” by Shakespeare), all fail to address the biggest problem/issue/confusion: using they as a nominative pronoun. And in…