Notices by Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club), page 26

@GeoffWozniak
Time to combine themes I've tooted about: prescriptivists get the guillotine.
@allan

@GeoffWozniak
Yeah, the passive voice isn't *wrong*. It's just rarely the best way to phrase something.
@allan

@freakazoid Your question was clear. My answer, apparently, was not. According to the article, most millennials expect to inherit more wealth than they actually will, and they expect to inherit sooner than they actually will.

@allan I mean, we need some kind of grammar in order to actually communicate, but it's obviously pretty flexible given the vast number of English dialects that can, mostly, be understood by anyone who is fluent in *some* version of English.

@allan Yeah, those people are generally insufferable. "No split infinitives" is a pet peeve of mine, because it's a rule that someone made up because they thought English should be more like Latin, a language in which it is literally impossible to split an infinitive. In English, it is possible and the meaning is easily understood. Some guy just said, "This is a rule," and people decided to go with it because he put it in a book.

@freakazoid More, by a fair bit. And they apparently expect to receive it sooner than is likely.

@allan > at our whim and fancy

What you call garbage, others might call whimsical.

But, I mean, yeah. There's a reason English is considered one of the hardest languages to become fluent in. It's a cobbled together mess, with influence from a bunch of unrelated sources (romance languages AND germanic?), plus no central body setting standards like some other languages have.

It's a mess, but it's a beautiful mess.

I'm assuming I'll inherent nothing, so I guess I'm in for a pleasant surprise (to the extent that would be possible in the context).

@allan The Germans would like to have a word with you...

Made this recipe tonight and it's a keeper. The tofu isn't super crispy once you sautee it with the peanut sauce, but it's sticky and delicious served over jasmine rice. Add diced green onion and black sesame seeds... *chef kiss*

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ElaborateRichBlueandgoldmackaw-small.gif

https://minimalistbaker.com/baked-crispy-peanut-tofu/

@FssOfDeath @opendork This isn't a naive call to "unite the left," since the Liberals, Greens and NDP are all too different to really form a single party, but it is a major flaw in our FPTP system, IMO.

@opendork @FssOfDeath The other big problem is that we've got at least 3 mainstream liberal or left-wing parties and only one right-wing party. Canadians, on the whole, favour the centre and centre left, but FPTP leads to Conservatives governments that most people don't want (this is also true of Liberal governments, but it honestly seems like the Liberals really benefit from strategic voting to a greater extent than any of the other parties).

@staticsafe I thought only "cheaters" use AWP.

That was often my weapon of choice when playing CS2, but I know a lot of servers banned it because they thought made it too easy for people to get headshots.

@policeinchains I haven't actually seen the movie and mostly don't want it actually spoiled, so I'm just going to pretend that Thor defeats Thanos by besting him in a pie eating contest. Now Thor as a bit of a tummy-tum and that's OK. Stop body shaming Thor, Ironman!

@opendork @FssOfDeath Of course, it's hard for people to take that risk when it could have very real, negative consequences for them if it doesn't pan out.

@FssOfDeath @opendork So, while I do support electoral reform of some sort, to reduce the need for strategic voting, the need is partly one of perception. I honestly wonder if the electoral landscape would look different if everyone actually voted for the party that best aligns with their values and/or interests, rather than the one they think they need to vote for in order to keep out the one they like least.

@opendork @FssOfDeath Strategic voting sucks, but I understand why people do it. But it's partly a result of people assuming everyone around them will vote a certain way. Recent coverage of the Canadian Greens has mentioned this a bit: lots of people say they'd vote Green, but assume most other people don't care as much about climate change as they do, so they don't vote for the party because they assume no one else will and it'll be a "wasted" vote.

I mean, I get that attitude. That could easily be me, except that I was once poor and so I know better. I am that privileged jerk, except that I know politics and who is in power actually does matter a lot to most people. The changing of the guard, as it were, mostly doesn't affect me. But when I vote I don't think about how it will benefit me, personally. I think about who will do the best for the most people (or at least who'll do the least harm).