there’s an irony in calling your channel ‘unlearning economics’ and then making a bunch of videos outing yourself as a smooth-brained succdem that refuses to investigate marxism beyond a superficial level

i love that ‘pissboy’ is more frequent than ‘piss stain’

It never stops bothering me when people say “comprised of”, as opposed to just “comprises”, or “composed of”.
I try to remind myself that I’m witnessing the evolution of language in real-time, but it just annoys me that what causes language to evolve is just people misusing it.

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I’ve been on farming simulator 22 for about a month. never thought it would be much more than just satisfyingly harvesting wheat for a few hours, but now I’m practically a tractor enthusiast

is this loss?

the character creation is kinda superfluous at this point, you can spend loads of time naming them, making a coat of arms etc. but in my experience it never comes up anywhere, nor does your leader character. there’s no real plot or politics to speak of, it’s just a medieval city simulator. there are some policies you can enact but the only impact is just ‘raise taxes = people sad’ and the like. maybe in future more stuff will be added but at the moment it’s not got anything i would consider problematic
there are already mods to change things like character avatars so you could potentially just make whatever character portrait you like and put that in the game

has anyone else had the issue where livestock just doesn’t get bought for years on end? every playthrough I set a family at the livestock trader to buy like 50 sheep, and 3 years later they’ve bought 1, even if I had money to spare in all that time

got a labour flyer through the letterbox today, turns out that among their candidate’s campaign promises are “stop the boats, end the hotel use for refugees and remove those with no legal right to be here”, which kinda just shows what they’re going for - daily mail readers
it’s been a while since i’ve been canvassed, but i wonder if i could restrain myself from revealing that far from ever being willing to support and vote for right-wingers, I want only to literally pull their heads off as a service to mankind and the world in general

Scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 22, “Symbiosis”, in which Capt. Picard attempts to mediate a trade dispute between the Brekkians, (pictured) who possess large quantities of a valuable medicine called “spice”, and the Ornarans, who are in need of the drug to cure a plague.

In my own anecdotal experience, some people, consciously or otherwise, will continue to refer to trans people as ‘they’ after it’s been made apparent what their identity is.
It could be inferred that they’re uncomfortable with stating a trans person’s identified gender because they don’t ‘believe it’, which implies their usage of they/them is not simply being overly cautious or polite but because they don’t want to acknowledge said identity.
This would also apply to people using neopronouns too - refusing to use them essentially implies that you don’t believe in them and don’t acknowledge that person’s right to determine their own identity.

No, you can’t ask that - it’s whataboutism

Which, coincidentally, was originally coined in Ireland in the 70s, referring to people who defended the IRA