Hello! I played D&D first in nineteen-eighty-fucking-one and lived through the Satanic Panic. Have you seen Tom Hanks in his first big acting role? My parents sat me down in front of that. But I’m still playing D&D in a campaign right now, and my son plays as well. Aha, take that Satanic Panic!
It’s the same shit every decade. They just need something to blame violence on, because surely it can’t be gun culture.
So, the solution to CEOs is more violent video games?
Ugh, why give them money and then tax it again? That makes no sense.
We do that on America’s Unemployment Income, and it seems ridiculous. Why give it, if you’re just taking away some later?
Thank you for this argument. I had found that mentally I was getting trapped in this line of thinking about UBI.
My way around in my mental way if thinking it was Universal Basic Medicine, Universal Basic Food, Universal Basic Housing, and so on. That way, if some jackass landlord decided to raise rent too high, you’re not homeless. Also, in my ideal world, the health insurance industry should be “taken out”.
Well you can if you want. It just won’t help the sting.
In other news, I just tried Kubuntu in an older laptop a few weeks ago, and I’m pleasantly surprised. Superior to Windows in almost every way.
I don’t think it’s “ready for Grandma” yet, but pretty darn close.
“Totally legal executive action”
Bingo!
Maybe CEOs should practice their active shooter drills.
Native English speaker here, and I graduated with an English writing degree, so I’m a word nerd. Pluralization and apostrophe use is baffling in English, and even native English speakers frequently get it wrong. I’ve found a good general guide for apostrophe use here.
McDonald’s is a brand name, so “We’re eating at McDonald’s” is proper. “Dingo” is also a brand name, used by OJ in the first speech bubble. Its plural would be “DINGOS”. It would be like Stetson hats, which we could say that “We are wearing Stetsons.”
Touch-and-go being a noun seems like a strange side case, but I found it in some dictionaries as airplane jargon. As such, I think it being hyphenated as “touch-and-goes” or “touch-and-gos” would be fine.
I think it’s more likely that this is a phrase that should be reworded to be more clear. “Touch and go” seems like a phrase which could be made into a compound adjective if preceding the noun.
We survived several touch-and-go situations. – Use of a hyphenated compound adjective before a noun.
The landings were touch and go. – However, when separated from the noun after the verb, no hyphens.
I think rewording to avoid the weirdness is the best solution to make the writing clear. However if you encounter something like this in the future and get it wrong, don’t worry too much. You’re in good company. Native English speakers and writers get these rules wrong all the time, and the standard rules from experts have evolved over my lifetime.
That pluralization traumatize’s me.
I’m mid-50s, and expect my share that I’ve been counting on for more than 3 decades of work to be disappeared. Pull the rug out at the last minute.
I’m Gen-X and have been screwed by Boomers (and younger deplorable “Gen-X Boomers”) my whole life. T***p was one final fuck-you to my generation. The Gen-X morons don’t yet realize their own self-goal.
Damn straight we are. He’s a national hero.
Absolutely true story.
I was a latchkey Gen-X. Once, as a young teenager, I was sure I witnessed a UFO landing in my back yard. It was night in the fall, and I was alone.I was alerted to a sound like a giant vacuum cleaner. I looked outside and saw smoke and a big machine with lights, either in my back yard or neighboring field. It crept closer, and spun around. My heart was racing.
Then I realized it was a combine tractor in the neighboring field, harvesting cross at night. The smoke was dust from the harvest. That’s when I realized: Anything can be a UFO if you are bad at identifying things, and don’t realize it’s not flying.
That’s a misconception. Typical healthy urine has microbe flora, most of which are helpful.
He wasn’t a billionaire, but he was filthy sticking rich, and made his money by causing untold stress and harm on other people.
I mean his company was already notoriously evil when he was just a high-ranking executive. But he took the helm, and wanted more money by being crueler than that.
Say what you want about him, but the last CEO “made a difference”. Just not in the way that smug punchable asshole intended.