“maybe people who disagree with me should stop voting?”

OK so after like a dozen comments we’ve finally reached my point again. This is politics.

In this section, bestiality means any contact, for a sexual purpose, with an animal.

You are wrong.

Edit:

of a person committing bestiality.

You are right.

Maybe they do! But they can still vote.

Somehow, I don’t think that religious people see it this way.

what do you mean by “entirely a private matter”? people go to church; churches post things on social media; etc.

I suspect religious people would be irritated if their texts were labelled as hate speech. It would be politically a bad move if this turned out to be the case. That’s why it’s a “bad thing.”

I’d feel much more sympathetic to that response if you hadn’t been such an asshole in this thread.

this is on both of you :|

I think both of you could learn about the term “be the bigger man.” How absolutely disappointing that you both react to each other with spiraling passive-aggression rather than sympathy or mutual understanding. Please, let’s keep lemmy habitable.

Seems like a sensible policy. They do get a bit confused about traditional ML vs genAI but so does everyone else at the moment.

Basically every language has situations like this. "plus” in French comes to mind. I think the worst one in English is particularly bad though – “can” and “can’t” pronounced nearly identically in my dialect.

Yep! That’s why I specified the meaning.

wdym?

right:

• the news affected me.
• What effect will the new curriculum have on the kids?

wrong:

• the news effected me
• what affect will the new curriculum have on the kids?

If they were serious about privacy-preserving age verification, they’d be looking at zero-knowledge proofs. Since ZKP is not on the table, this is really about control and surveillance.

I believe headline meant “mustn’t.”

not blaming you but now you know. affect is the verb meaning “to influence or alter,” effect is the noun meaning “the result of a cause.”

*affect

“jobsworth,” British slang for someone like that.

Oh no, fanfic fodder for the American politics fandom…

Yeah one time my passport got slightly wet – just enough to make it a bit crinkly – and my gov’t forced me to process it as “damaged” and pay a fine