29 Likes
25 Likes
Canāt read paywalled article but that image, of Trump next to RFKJr caching flies, has been given the perfect āDumb and Dumberā caption.
19 Likes
16 Likes
We have never seen a more corrupt administration. Ever. The only defense the Republicans have is that this corruption is in the open. Bidenās, Mike Johnson said, was hidden. I deeply doubt the charges against the Bidenās. But the idea that the claims against them ā tiny in comparison to the facts that stain this administrationāare corruption because hidden, while the charges against Trump are not corruption because in the open is just embarrassing. In-plain-sight corruption is an even worse corruption than corruption that are hidden, because the in-plain-sight corruption asserts āI am above or beyond or untouchable by the law.ā It is not just corruption, it is the denial of the rule of law. This is, again, the most corrupt administration in the history of America.
22 Likes
I find this interesting, in that while the article notes that the Jewish community in the ATL leans much more heavily democratic (about 70%, the article says), they seem to have slightly more Republican voices in this articleā¦
It should also be noted that the first minority mayor was Sam Massell, who was Jewish and Maynard Jackson, our first Black mayor, was his vice-mayor, back when we had that position in city government. Jackson was the last person to serve in that capacity, if Iām remembering correctly. And that many synagogues in town were supportive of the Civil Rights movement back in the 50s and 60s, and at least one was bombed as a result in the 1950s.
16 Likes
Thanks.
āWe will follow the truth wherever it leads, uphold rigorous science, and drive bold policies that put the health, development, and future of every child first,ā RFK Jr. said
(My bold)
Science, eh? Whereās that āthat word does not mean what you think it doesā meme?
Same for rigorous.
14 Likes
That occurred to me, but didnāt seem like the particular hill I wanted to die on. Iām sure they could send the debt to collections, and also refuse to deliver future packages.
Itās the redundancy, and also the partial subversion of the abbreviation, or at least thatās the most logical argument I can make. I imagine itās similar to how some people react to words like moist. It just feels wrong. I have a similar reaction to people using loose when they mean lose.
Hereās another example from my work. People will often refer to a PAT(Personal Access Token) as a PAT Token.
19 Likes
I donāt know, wearing a baseball cap for delivering a speech to West Point graduates seems a little off.
21 Likes
All right, but letās be clear ā you literally just said PAT and spelled it out in full, so what is actually bothering you is not redundancy but just the lack of parentheses.
Trump miscapitalized Vat too, but also Trade Barriers, Corporate Penalties, and so on and so onā¦I assume pointing out that he capitalizes like someone who knows English is different than German but has no idea how is too common to bother now.
11 Likes
Tough on crime, my assā¦
21 Likes
I assumed that most wouldnāt know what a PAT is, so provided the expansion as a convenience. If I were to continue using it after establishing that, I wouldnāt refer to it as a PAT Token since the definition/expansion is no longer necessary. For other initialisms (VAT, ATM, PIN, and to a lesser degree UMB), They are generally well-known enough that it shouldnāt be necessary to add more context. Iām all for trying to understand your audience when communicating and avoiding lesser known abbreviations or adding context where necessary. My problem is when it becomes a pattern and no longer provides value.
All that said, I try to keep my prescriptive tendencies to myself, but they rise to the surface sometimes. 
14 Likes
23 Likes
26 Likes
Holy shit it is like he saw tweets criticizing us foreign policy and took it as a compliment.
28 Likes
Butā¦ butā¦ I was told he was the PEACE and anti-imperial prezident!!! /s
25 Likes