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still big, no longer in Japan

[carbonatedgatorade]

the next few years will be marked by an explosion in popularity of cyberpunk aesthetics (neuromancer show, cyberpunk edgerunners, blade runner 2099) and the thing people will take away from it is “it’s cool to love corporations”

[gremlininho]

let me. innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[spaghettiwoman46]

Ugh they are always doing this

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

Little freaks

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

"Scam" you mean people are fighting back against housing discrimination??? I don't think these people know what the word scam means

Scams are designed to trick someone into giving up money based on lies. This is just.. asking for information then legally enforcing the law??

Fuck landlords

[emeraldspiral]

[corvidconventicle]

You can’t blame someone in this situation for defending themselves however they can—but you have to ask why claiming to have better grammar than your antagonist is so often the weapon of choice. Linguists posit that this has to do with notion that bigots are not only depraved, but also stupid, and that the two are connected. “It allows their critics to feel intellectually and culturally as well as morally superior,” Cameron explains. That is a satisfying feeling, to be sure, but the reality is that grammar and morality don’t actually have anything to do with one another, and attacking a bigot’s poor grammar does not itself prove you are a better person. It might prove that you had the opportunity to become more educated than they did, or that you spent a lot of time mastering the rules of standard English. However, the moral significance of what someone says is about the content, not the grammar. As Cameron says, “Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence.”

The other problem with policing people’s preposition usage or dangling modifiers is that “poor grammar” is often a criticism hurled at what is really just a nonstandard English dialect. For instance, one might call out a speaker of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) for using a double negative (“I didn’t say nothing”) without realizing that AAVE is a systematic dialect, and the double negative isn’t a mistake but instead a legitimate part of AAVE grammar. It isn’t something we find in standard English anymore, but it used to be—centuries ago, everyone from Chaucer to Shakespeare to everyday English speakers used double negatives. Again, it wasn’t until those stuffy grammarians from the English standardization period decided we should copy Latin and nix the double negative that it was considered “incorrect.”

Linguists know that nonstandard forms of a language are not objectively “bad.” The grammatical forms themselves, like saying “he be”* instead of “he is,” are not inherently worse or better than what we learned in English class. They’re simply stigmatized based on how we feel about the type of person using them.

When highly educated folks engage in grammar policing, they’re basically just doing what misogynists do when they dismiss what a woman is saying because she uses uptalk or vocal fry; it’s another example of judging someone’s speech based on preconceptions of who they are. Discerning listeners can tell that addressing someone’s grammar is often just a way of avoiding the message itself. “Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,” Cameron says. “And that, IMHO, is nothing to be proud of.”

Wordslut: A Hilarious and Informative Exploration of Gendered Language and Its Impact on Women - Amanda Montell

[crimsonservbot]

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

[stoopkidlisteningtocsh]

Was feeling Emotions than was quickly hit by very different ones upon opening the comments

[yaggesworld]

[thats-a-cat]

that's a cat ✅️

[aromanticduck]

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

[porcelain-dollbones]

it really is kind of interesting how attached people are to the idea of the improvised line and the genuine reaction in film. nearly every single famous moment or line has some sort of claim floating around that it wasn't in the script and was either made up on the spot by an actor or was sprung as a surprise on the actors to get their 'real' reaction. you know, sometimes people do come up with good lines in advance and write them down, and sometimes people can pretend to be have a convincing emotional response on screen

[squishy-gumble]

also important to note that a lot of the 'improvised' lines that people talk about are things that might not be in the script, that the actors cone up with while shooting, but still discuss and figure out with the director before shooting the final takes. genuinely improvised lines without any prior knowledge are pretty rare. i think instances when the people involved in making a film collaborate to make changes to a script are really cool, and the fetishisation of the 'genuine reaction' and 'improvised line' also cheapen this form of 'improvisation' i.e. collaboration and flexibility among artists

[desertmarble]

I think in retrospect one thing that will be historically notable about the 2020s is the use of online smear campaigns against powerful women. Like it’s extremely frightening. So many of them also were quite literally funded by men who were angry about “getting MeTooed” and wanted to ruin a woman’s life the same way.

[dailymanners]

I've gotten so many frustrating voice mails that are just "it's Dana, call me back", and I can't call them back because I don't know who they are or how to get in touch!

Here is a basic template that you can use in just about any situation where you're leaving a message. Line breaks indicate where you should pause for at least one full second:

Hi, this is [your first and last name] from [your organization] calling [the person you are trying to reach] about [reason you are calling in 10 words or less]

Please call me back at [phone number with area code] by [date/time]

Once again...

This is [your name] from [your organization]

Please call me back about [topic] at [phone number], that's

[phone number one more time, this time v e r y ... s l o w l y]

Thank you!

Obviously some of this information might not be relevant to your particular message, so feel free to skip anything that doesn't apply.

A short message (under 30 seconds) is usually better than a long one, but your message should always include 1) who you are, 2) why you are calling, and 3) how and when the other person can reach you.

[sevensixone]

Also! If your message includes any phone numbers, account numbers, or other long sequences of random characters, you not only need to repeat that number multiple times, you need to have the rhythm!

[exwife-of-frankenstein]

Youtube is full of ads, spotify is full of ads, tumblr is full of ads, pinterest is full of ads. Everything uses ai. Every new update makes the website/app worse. Youtube auto translates almost every video I want to watch. Sometimes pinterest only loads ads for me. Check out this new ai feature. Here's a new update that breaks ur laptop. Here's a new update that breaks ur phone. Why are u complaining about ur phone, just get the newest iphone lol. Join my patreon. Join my membership. Pay a monthly membership to get all features. Upgrade your membership to get even more features. Subscribe to netflix. Subscribe to disney. Subscribe to amazon. Subscribe to hulu. This content isn't available in ur country. This content was removed. This website was removed. This feature only exists for apple. This app only exists for apple. U need to a WiFi connection to play this game. U need an account. We need your email to finish creating this account. We need your number to finish creating your account. We need your id to finish creating your account. In order to delete your account please write an email. In order to delete your account you need a laptop. Oops our database was hacked and ur information was stolen. Ur data was sold from this random website u used once 10 years ago. Spam call. Spam call. Spam call.

[microraptorhours]

i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.

[markv5]

via https://t.me/russian_cat_meme

[ghost-opal]

Tech companies have discovered a new anti-pattern recently and its called violating your muscle memory by putting links to shitty features nobody likes where the most commonly used button used to be

[ghost-opal]

I call the kinds of UX designers who do this "tech pests"

[sevensixone]

[fairycosmos]

my dead wife. the ad free internet

[fairycosmos]

watching dreamily recorded footage of a web forum from 2003