I have no shame of never having been a good speller. I went through school without spell-check and I get by, but heck, spelling bees aren’t a thing in many languages.

Ya know, because they HAVE a spelling system which they bother reforming to stay up to date, and not 10 in a trenchcoat.

To me any religion that excludes people or exalts people on the basis of tribe is not tolerant end of story.

I haven’t read the entirety of the Bible. But happy to be persuaded that my understanding of God and his chosen people is inaccurate.

For example, this was incredibly easy to search for: Destruction of the Canaanites

I would wager there are many such stories. Judaism, like most religions, is pretty fucked up.

If anyone really believes God chose their people over others, you inherently believe your tribe is more special, more righteous, or favoured by God. To me, that belief is nothing short of dangerous - *gestures broadly throughout human history*

I’m not really out of line here to assert that makes the orthodox belief foster ethnic/tribal supremacy.

I’m not saying everyone who believes in Judaism believes this way, but as a whole it’s pretty hard to argue their shit doesn’t smell as bad as the others.

Exclusion is just not a sign of tolerance. Sorry ¯_(ツ)_/¯

People are individuals, and I’d assert there’s a spectrum of views across believers.

If we’re talking about the religion in general? I’ll have to strongly disagree that it’s only inward looking.

Where in the US? I’ve never seen anything online where a US entity uses DD/MM/YYYY, or do you mean the month is spelled out?

MM/DD/YYYY genuinely causes issues, because it’s very easily misread by the rest of the world, and vise versa for Americans.

I have been mislead more than once, because the MM and DD are both ≤ 12.

MM/DD/YYYY needs to die

Month Day YYYY is fine, because it’s unambiguous when the month is spelled out.

YYYY.MM.DD, or similar, is the only way to sort dates properly anyway.

Yeah, the religion with the “chosen people” . Yep. Definitely tolerant of non-believers.

God’s wrath? This only is directed at believers right?

Lol

Jews are welcome to believe in whatever they like provided they’re not hurting anyone, but let’s not pretend their religion as written, or hell even widely practiced, is somehow more tolerant compared to other religions.

Just my two cents, not having a go at you:

This is why I’m a pragmatic prescriptivist, I want people to follow norms for ease of communication, unless their innovation fills a need/fixes something about the language.

Stupid english with its stupid verbs.

We’ve got “to” and “from” why do we need to have two differently spelt verbs for basically the same thing.

Sure, you could argue that you can just say “they are emigrating” to imply people are leaving the country permanently, but let’s be honest, not providing any other context it’s practically unheard of. You’ll at least be saying where they currently are, came from, or going to, unless you’re being very abstract. Even then, you couls say “the migrants were immigrating” to be very vague about it. Both immigrating and emigrating involve moving, wtf is the point?

I’m glad few people “properly” use “emigrate” these days. Let’s kill it, it’s redundant!

I may have even gotten the difference wrong, but I’m not gonna look it up since I don’t want to use it anyway haha

Oh neato then. I had a full-sized corded lawn mower back when I lived in a house where I was burdened with a lawn. It was quieter, but still loud.

Glad to hear that there are quieter ones.

Or the properties are just so huge you wouldn’t disturb anyone haha (I lived in a inner suburban place where the next house was less than 5m wall to wall)

Why would you run it at night? They’re not as loud as petrol mowers, but spinning blades are not exactly quiet when mowing

“Bear” and “Bull” as terms are so cringe and I can’t put my finger on why.

I think I just associate them with grifters and idiots.

Props to musk. He’s doing what the rest of the oligarchs are doing. He’s just making it plainly obvious.

Hopefully people then start to wake up to who their enemies truly are.

Do people not wash daily? This seems like a general hygiene issue, and not that closely correlated with bidet use.

Source: I have never used a bidet, and my butt does not itch, ya know, because I wash daily?

Oh don’t get me wrong. The strong adherence to pacifism is laudable. But they have not reckoned with their atrocities committed during and prior world war II. They practically deny them ever happening.

Your whataboutism is not appreciated.

Japan has never really reckoned with its past. They were just pacified.

I judge the country as a whole for this, since they keep electing politicians who continue to do very little to reckon with their past.

I feel a lot could be gained by apologising to the people and nations for the past, and nothing lost, other than nationalistic pride, bring forced into self reflection, and being genuinely sorry on behalf of the country.

People who think they shouldn’t apologise because it wasn’t them personally are stupid, frankly, and standing in the way of reducing tensions.

Will it fix everything in the region? No. Will it take some of the steam out of the war machine? Probably.

Would he not have already sold most when they went public?

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It’s absolutely wild they expect you to pay taxes when you don’t live there, and I’m pretty sure not widly practiced by other countries.

I find Australia’s travel advice contradictory.

No offence to people living in the US, but I’d say most people in Australia would think many places in the US are not generally as safe as here.

For political reasons (we are the US’ vassals, see $300 bn submarines), we will likely hold out a long time before heightening headline travel advice, but to me some of the advice given does not fall under the category of exercising “normal safety precautions” as is claimed by DFAT:

• Violent crime is more common in the United States than in Australia. Gun crime is also prevalent. If you live in the United States, learn and practice active shooter drills.

• There is a persistent threat of mass casualty violence and terrorist attacks in the United States. Be alert, particularly in public places and at events.

Practicing active shooter drills isn’t normal. At all.

https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/americas/united-states-america

I hate that saying “they are fascists” is not at all in the slightest hyperbole :(

WTF is this timeline?

Hmmm, I better send a suggestion letter to the ATO (Australian Taxation Office) to put the tax bracket breakdown directly into your return with the amounts populated.

Hey, they give us a breakdown graph of where our tax is going, this seems like it’s within the realm of possibility.

I think sadly there are also many people here who have no idea how tax brackets work…