That’s the real account. The joke account is Jiankui Him.

It’s not an idea, that’s just how the word works. It can have different and more specific meanings in different context but generally a criminal is someone who has committed a crime.

I think “criminal” can just mean someone who has committed a crime while not having been in a trial convicted of it

Still a really important correction imo

Back in MY day we used the phone plan money on logos and ringtones

Even their own food?

Do you feel like OP knows that?

I was just saying that way you said it does seem to assume others understood you’re talking about the US. If you specify it (“we in the US”) then that avoids the whole issue.

Yes it does imo, and the “we” would include everyone else as part of that city, which is what bothers some people.

I’ve had people be absolutely furious when I didn’t specify that the country I was talking about was Finland and not the US.

“We should do X”

“But we do, here’s a link”

“That’s about the US, not Finland”

“Why would you assume we know you’re from Finland??”

It’s pretty funny and I admit that I do it on purpose.

“We need this as a city” and “we need this in my city” have a different meaning imo. First one makes it sound like you’re including us in your “we”, as in the people in your city.

If I said “we need public transit as a city” am I assuming that everyone lives in my city or am I simply talking about my own city?

I mean you meant the US, though, right?

I guess what makes it weird is all of those other religions having a religious episode

That’d be cool but I think people are interested to know if this actually happened

I didn’t think the word alone was offensive but rather the directed use of it. Gonna make discussion hard if you can’t even use the actual word when discussing it…

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Ayyyy I’m driving here

I think the difference is the idea of people from the community, with the consent of the community, policing said community. From the community, for the community. I think it’s a nice idea, but it really depends on the actual community what that would look like. More peaceful and inclusive in some places, horribly authoritarian and racist (even worse than US cops now) in others.

But yeah it’d just be different form of policing and those doing it could be just called police.

Taler is a cool and fitting name

Makes me think of TikTok videos and how they have that super fast text with words highlighted and the robot voice