Americans not understanding other countries exist, an exhibit:

why don’t you tell us how you really feel

Wouldn’t expect much more from a TERF paper.

Ah shit, has The Guardian platformed TERFs?

Yeah that’s a great point.

I swear it feels like the rabidly anti-AI people are just as fucking stupid as the rabidly pro-AI ones

I do it out of love for LLM scrapers.

Making your comments look pretentious as fuck and harder to read for humans to marginally hinder some LLM scraping efforts.

Galaxy brain move.

Want to have a nice cry about it?

me_irl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo

“Showed up out of nowhere”, ie. in development since the mid 90’s; “made the most bank”, ie. made the 2nd most bank; “disappeared”, ie. Cameron said that there would be 4 sequels and that they’re being worked on; “came back out of nowhere”, ie. the first sequel came out more or less when it was supposed to, and Cameron said in 2020 that filming on Avatar 3 was nearly finished.

what needs to happen is companies not have this much power ever.

There is zero chance that we can get the oligarchy to surrender power peacefully, so that’s not going to happen unless…

^{For legal purposes this comment is a joke}

Riiiight, like the Nazis wanted Jews to “voluntarily migrate” until they just started murdering them on an industrial scale?

I hope you wear the velcro shoes for your own sake

I wonder what the daily recommended allowance of irony is

I mean I’m like 99.9999% sure the post itself is satire, but what worries me is that I’m not sure if the concept of “higher order vibes” is itself satire or not

But he’s speaking too clearly and enunciating too well

he what

mOvE fAsT aNd BrEaK tHiNgS

I could understand mmmmmaaaaayyyybe like 70% (if we’re being generous, and we are, aren’t we?) of what the dude in that video was saying.

Regional accents can be really hard for me to understand sometimes, but I still love hearing them. The “standard American” accent and RP get so boring

Thanks for the explanation! I really had no idea about any of this.

After listening to the interview on that Excursion Around The Bay video I got interested in hearing more of the accent so I went and dug up more videos and ran into this https://youtu.be/yl9hQpG_c34

That accent is a delight. It’s so interesting.

Can someone explain this to a dirty Yuropean peasant like me?

The hell did you want me to call it then? “Military service” is a completely common expression to use, and it applies whether we like what they’re doing or not.

And before you get any bright ideas: no, I’m not American and no, I don’t support what their military does. This kind of completely pointless semantic wankery just really activates my almonds

Both world wars look like “clear lines” to you after the fact. Of course you can just point at, say, Ferdinand getting assassinated and go “yeah that’s what started WW I” but do you think anyone at that time thought “yup that’s going to start the mother of all wars”?

As others have pointed out they absolutely didn’t look like it when they were kicking off.