“Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened” they said about 80 generations ago.

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I only p2p but I can’t do much, NAS is so expensive in my country :(

Even those makeup are kinda useless since they can track you to your door, see the cars you got in, the people you met, see if those people posted on social media if they know someone trying anti-facial recognition methods, etc. They can easily make a list of people prone to use anti-facial recognition that lives in or walks by certain areas then recognize them by body-type, height, walking rhythm…

Just blame Christianism. Rome was doing well before.

I love the part where the scumbag CEO call people terrorists for pointing where his cameras are.

She met him when she was 25.

I just checked and she met her husband when she was 25. For me the meme just comes out as classical American moralism.

Is it saying she was underage when she started a relationship with her husband (I don’t know who she is, so I can’t check), or that what consenting adults do is other people’s business and they should have no autonomy over their bodies?

sloped lot. I put them there before the walls.

Here the sewer is 80% (so for every $10 you consume of water they charge another $8 for sewer). In those months I don’t use their water I still pay for the sewer minimal fee (up to 10m³ water consumption, my average in the months I use their water is 18m³)

Butt breathing became a real medical treatment about 400 or 500 years ago, though… ever heard about blowing smoke up your ass? The medical term is Tobacco Smoke Enema.

Is not-liking-being-monitored-by-some-asshole-billionaire-ceo-who-is-selling-all-my-movements-and-habits-to-people-i-know-nothing-about-and-i-have-no-reason-to-trust-their-intentions a hobby?

The people who put the Q in the LGBT said fuck you all and applied the meaning they wanted to the word and it stopped being a slur, because being offended is a choice. If it was another generation, they’d try to police what other people can say instead…
If you look at “guy” in the dictionary, you will see it was way more “dehumanizing” than being called a young bird, but no one makes it their battle to stop people from using the word “guy” - it’s not a fashionable enough cause hehe
Anyway, unfortunately, there is little we can do about generational changes, so just move on and use your vocabulary on your social circle and people your age. You know your intent when using the words and so does your generation. The internet is full of drama, let the young ones to their newspeak.

There were a couple of years with extended drought season and the city’s water reserves got dangerously low and there was rationing. Since then, I got another five 260L barrels and tons of 5L bottles filled with rainwater under my stairs just for use on my lawn, garden, and houseplants. I don’t believe the climate is going to get any better in the future, nor that the population will get smaller or industry will use less water. Every year is hotter than the previous one. What I expect are longer and longer drought seasons, and I don’t think I’m prepared enough :P

Another thing users are “agreeing” by default and have to opt-out?

I’m not a native speaker. I just mean I use the city water supply when it’s not raining season, and when it starts raining (about half of the year here) I stop using (and paying for) it and use only rainwater. As I wrote in another comment here, my city has a lot of natural springs and I get water for drinking there.

If your written language isn’t messy you actually read syllables.
There is this guy called Paulo Freire that developed a literacy method for adults that is really impressive and it was tested in several parts of the world. It has a whole part about making it relatable to the person learning and using its environment and social reality, but the reading/writing part is based on phonetics, so in two months his method can get adults from poor regions that have never went to school reading and writing - but as it’s based on phonetics, and language is messy, at start they mix syllables that have same sound, like stuff with c and k, or ch and sh, or ks and x, but if they know how it sounds they can read it, and regardless of grammatical mistakes when writing, what they write is understandable and “right” when it comes to phonetics, so even though it’s “wrong” you can still read and understand it, and that’s possible because the written language is based on syllables… now imagine having to teach 3000 to 4000 different symbols and if you make one stroke to the wrong side or miss one stroke it’s a completely different word?

The continued existence of written Chinese means as much as the continued existence of Christianity and how it spread through other continents, it has nothing to do with how good it is, but with historical power relations - and if Chinese becomes the next Lingua Franca, as it will probably be, it will because China won at capitalism and conquered the world’s markets, and not because its language is good - I actually can’t say if the language is good or not, but the writing system, it’s beyond bad.

ps: this has nothing to do with some Eurocentric view of language, because I actually find the Korean writing system pretty awesome.