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And these don't even tank top ten in the "worst shit committed by 'men of god' in the Bible". Hell it doesn't even make top 10 in the Old Testament.

Why even specify that it's only familiar to people in the US?

This literally happens to all the bilingual/multilingual people, especially with other similarly bilingual/multilingual (as in, speaking the same languages) people.

For example, I'm Hungarian, I live in the UK, and with other Hungarians, we almost always speak a sort of Hunglish, because some terms simply come to us better in English, or don't have a direct, frequently used translation.

But I've seen the exact same thing happen in border towns all across Europe - most people in those areas will speak the languages of both countries of the border, as thanks to the EU and Schengen, the border is administrative at most, and the people of the town often come and go, requiring both languages, and depending on proficiency, there's lots of switching going on.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

On a more serious note, I feel the same.

Don't get me wrong, I actually do like my job. I'm working with people I like, I like what I'm actually doing, and I'm not waking up with dread every (or really, any) morning. I can't even complain because I'm getting paid well, great benefits, tons of time off (so much in fact that my manager had to force me to take Fridays off until EOY just so I use up my base rate PTOs), great bonus situation, lots of options to travel, management is generally good as well.

But every single day, I just feel exhausted after work. Even when I'm WFH, or have little actually exhausting tasks to do... I'm just exhausted. Tired. No energy for anything but running a quick bath, or shower, reading for an hour or two, then sleeping.

In fact this lack of energy has been so bad recently that I've taken to inserting a workout+cooking+everythingelse hour in the middle of my WFH days just so things get done.

That pretty much happens every time any government tries to introduce an "economy kickstart benefit".

See for example, Hungary. The government introduced "CSOK" a few years back, which was basically a "start your family" free money kit - if you marry and have X kids within Y years of taking part in this program, you get to keep the money for free, no need to pay it back, otherwise it turns into a loan (with sub-market rates mind you so it's worth taking even if you don't want kids).

The amount per family was fixed, at IIRC 20 million HUF, or around $60k USD.

Guess what happened?

Property prices shot up, practically overnight, by that amount.

Shit do be like that at times

Fedisniper strikes again. When will this terror end?

Of course it's a losing battle. Remember what Sartre said:

Never believe that fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The fascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Conservatives around the world for the past ~30 years (if not longer) have been slowly adopting fascist methods and talking points. And for the past ~10 years, conservatives and fascists have formed a Venn diagram of a circle.

Nobody mention the tissues or the suspicious white spots on their shirts!

The bridge has been closed for a while, of course there were no casualties...

You can be a little trans, as a treat

Why do you presume that all AI advancement is purely by technofascists?