@mekkaokereke The residents seem like entitled assholes. I keep thinking of all the back folks that get pulled over for a busted tail light (or DWB) and end up getting killed.
@WarnerCrocker This is getting close to Department of Propaganda–level reporting, with the part about spray-painted messages saying "Gaza is bleeding" and "Stop the genocide" being buried way, way down the article.
@carnage4life Apple are pissed because they want to stop anyone offering subscriptions direct to iPhone users. They want their 30% cut of every transaction related to an app that runs on their phones. And the EU is penalizing them for their anti-trust behavior.
There are of course lots of people who think Apple are the good guys and those challenging their anti-competitive practices are evil, and/or shooting themselves in the foot when Apple retaliates.
@randahl When a US businessman says that falsifying business records is no big deal it’s probably a good idea to look very closely at his business records.
@WarnerCrocker That ad was horrible. Watching all those beautiful and useful creative tools being destroyed was nauseating. It was a celebration of pure vandalistic philistinism.
@CloudyMrs I don't think I ever heard anyone say "Good New Year" anywhere I lived in Scotland (mainly Fife and Glasgow), unless they were using the expression "A guid New Year tae ane and aw."
@CloudyMrs As a Scot living in the US for over 25 years ... Americans do often say "New Year's" but it's shorthand for "New Year's Eve (or Day)." It's a possessive, not a plural.
Some people will write "New Years," but that's a failure to include the possessive apostrophe, which I believe happens sometimes in Blighty as well.
The thing that puzzles me is the difference in spoken emphasis. Americans say "Happy NEW Year" while in Scotland I think we always said "Happy New YEAR."
I've seen several people post this image, but none of them have used alt text, despite the fact that the web interface for Mastodon even offers to extract the text for you.
Anyway, here it is. And this is indeed some Nazi shit.
I’m wondering if anyone in Scotland still carves turnips. We did when we were kids, which is a lot later than the “19th and early 20th century” dates this article gives.
Due to global warming, Vivaldi's Four Seasons have been reworked so that the Summer movement is 30% longer and played fortissimo, Winter is 10% shorter and played pianissimo, with some random bars played sforzando to account for the slowing of the North Atlantic Current, and both Spring and Autumn are now played very quickly and with abrupt changes in key, indicating their chaotic nature.
@BonehouseWasps@Teri_Kanefield It sounded to me that the riots they were expecting would be people protesting Trump’s coup. That’s why he’d invoke the Insurrection Act and send in the troops.
@tzimmer_history Let's make sure that Hunter Biden is impeached and thrown out of office. (Apologies: I've just been informed that he's not occupying any government office.)
in that case we'll have to subject him to the same kind of legal sanction that Clarence Thomas has faced. (Sorry, I've just learned that Hunter has been indicted and Thomas hasn't.)
Wait, does this mean that Chait is practicing false equivalence? Surely not!
@inthehands You're right of course about one being a noun and the other a verb. Login = the act of logging in (or the credentials you use to do so). I disagree about the labeling, though.
A button saying "log in" is saying "I am the button that allows you to log in." One saying "login" is saying "I am the button that allows you to perform the act of logging in."
"Checkout" and "check out" are a similar noun/verb pair, but there's no confusion about a supermarket sign saying "Checkout."
Born and raised in Scotland, currently living in New Hampshire. Author of several books, mostly on meditation and Buddhist practice. Fan of Scots language. Learning #dansk and #svenska. Dabbler in #Pali.