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because undocumented immigrants are people.

like any group of people, a handful of them are bound to be fucking stupid.

think statistically. in a nation of 100s of millions this fascist power grab is less boneheaded than it appears on the surface; a tragedy fs

h3 is an incredibly interesting part of internet fandom/history. my phones about to die but if anyone is into it, i’ve “personally been there” since the very early days of their channel and think i have a decent perspective on the entire dynamic here, i might do a little actual, extensive write up in an edit here when i get home later.

i find h3 is fun to discuss as throughout his history on the internet he’s unique in of that he has entirely abandoned his audience multiple times. on the outside he’s a hypocrite (which is definitely true don’t get me wrong), but i think “inside” it’s a more machievallian and sinister sort of thing. frankly ethan and hila not only do alt-right dogwhistling better than anyone else; they invented a whole new technique. idk what to call it. but their snake-y nature lets them subvert typical premonitions and community norms time and time again and infiltrate way further into communities any other alt-righter would get nowhere near as close into the spheres of.

lmfao this comment under a literal image of pepe is peek fucking zeitgeist of the age holy shiiiit

i would listen to these warnings. i know how devastating it can be to lose a valued item like that, but it really would be irresponsible to use it to serve food again. i know id be a little upset if i saw a friend had made my dinner with such a colander, as dickish as it may sound.

i don’t know how sound your theory here is. i’m not a chemist or a food scientist myself but hang around a lot of them for my studies and work rn. i sincerely doubt the veracity of it being “still as food-safe as it was,” as even just the coating being porous could render it an unsafe surface to prepare food upon. and again, that’s assuming that is the only thing that’s different about the coating, which is a bold assumption.

edit: if you really cannot part with it (which again, is understandable) then i second everyone telling you to get it refurbished/do it yourself by sandblasting all of the existing coating off ~~and then reapplying a new ceramic coating (you can go with other food safe options that don’t require a high temp furnace but at this point of this process we’re getting into “can easily fuck it up more permanently” territory, hence the recommendation for professional services if this colander is that important)~~. depending on when the ceramic was made, what the coating is, and other factors this could definitely be anywhere from “cool to do in the garage on a nice day” to “absolutely do not get anywhere near the dust and keep good track of every single bit of it” levels of danger.

quick edit again: i didn’t wanna misinform you so i asked my friend who’s into ceramics rq. i was wrong. seems only the high temp silica glazes are food safe, all the enamel stuff you can do at home isn’t kosher for eating with apparently. my apologies

i like this comment but i feel the need to reply because it touches upon a pet peeve of mine in linguistics: there is a persistent myth in the modern period that grammatical gender is useless, pointless, or somehow arbitrary and is just some sort of vestigial, rotting, lexical limb that made it to the 21st century by fluke.

this is simply not true. just because grammatical gender often appears arbitrary or illogical doesn’t mean it actually is. and just because grammatical gender follows many, many rules does not mean there are no rules. grammatical gender is just a fairly common form of noun class system. as with most forms of noun classing, what the rules are in a given dialect can be a little wishy-washy but they are certainly not arbitrary.

for example, you point out the german Mädchen as an example of illogical noun gendering. this is an opinion often expressed by foreigners learning the language, and even by linguistically-ignorant germans. it makes sense on the face of it, this word has a similar meaning to the english phrase “little girl,” so it is strange the germans decided to sort this word into the neuter gender, no?

well, no. it isn’t strange and it isn’t illogical, in actuality. -chen is a diminutive in german. for those who are unaware, diminutives are suffixes/prefixes in languages that serve to make nouns feel smaller or more cute in a language. think booklet vs book or dog vs doggie for some english examples.

what are some examples of more german diminutives?

das Kätzchen - kitten

das Hündchen - puppy

das Plätzchen - a cookie (depends on dialect exactly what this refers to afaik but generally is always some sort of cookie)

das Ohrläppchen - earlobe

noticing a trend? these are all neuter! and thus we uncover a little grammatical rule that grammatical gender was trying to tell us. all diminutives are neuter.

most every “arbitrary” example of grammatical gender people provide has some sort of similar reasoning or rule behind it, some story or information it is trying to give you that makes speaking the language that much easier.

just because what it is encoding doesn’t seem useful or logical to (rhetorical) you doesn’t mean it is not. grammatical gender is much more than just gender-washing everyday speech for kicks and does carry useful meaning, if you can be bothered to puzzle it out. attempts i’ve seen to “de-gender” spanish (this is just what is local to me) all fundamentally misunderstand what it is they’re even trying to do and often opt for rotely tearing out the entire gendered case system without offering proper lexical and linguistic infrastructure for the language to actually effectively function without it. these attempts sound clunky because they are clunky! and to be perfectly clear i’m not dogging on the premise, just the serious attempts i’ve seen implemented in real life speech and their implementation. i think it’s relevant bc it showcases how modern misunderstanding of what grammatical gender is can realize as actual, negative manifestations in the non-conceptual world. why this is important to think about more than passingly!

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no it doesn’t. this is terrible and loans/grants are currently under scrutiny, so this could be the case soon, but don’t spread misinformation.

pell grants and stafford loans are still paying out

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/business/trump-federal-freeze-grants-student-loans.html

oh no the art was made with *gasp* DIGITAL TOOLS THAT ARE NOT ALREADY TRADITIONAL.

I AM GOING TO FUCKING SEETH AT THE MOUTH

I AM GOING TO EXPLODE

EEEEEaaaAAAAAUUUUURGH

seriously lmao the “AI” hate, as someone working in this field, gets more and more annoying everyday.

half these people making plagiarism machine jokes probably can’t even tell you what chatGPT and similar models’ tech stacks LOOK like beyond “huuuurrrr it’s an -L. -L. -M. riiight?”

not to point the finger at you specifically ekZepp, just the general zeitgeist. yes there are ethical issues with the current tools coming out. as someone who doesn’t really believe in the premise of intellectual property, the “copyright” problem is the absolute least problematic thing about these tools.

what will you do when megacorps sift through their dragon’s hoarde of data in previously impossible sums of time that then enables them to implement actual, dystopic surveillance and policy? do we just sit there and continue throwing tantrums like big babies about “ai took mah jab” and how it’s a garbage worthless excuse for technology? do people like you not realize that regardless of how much emotion juice you put towards the “vibe” of current tools being worthless hacks, that doesn’t synthesize that into reality? these tools are here, they’re real, and people better fucking grow up and learn to live with them rather than complaining endlessly about tenuous ethics issues. seriously. wise up, learn about the cutting edge and where it is today; and then learn how we can use modern innovations to stay ahead in the eternal game of proletarian cat-n-mouse.

being a stupid, stubborn, bull-headed reactionary about things gets us nowhere and i’m fucking tired of seeing this attitude ALL across the web. you people should grow up. do something instead of puking hate online to make yourself feel better.

sorry rant over thx for coming to my tedtalk

i think the original commenter is just reaffirming the idea presented in the meme by sharing their own conceptions of iran. this highlights how westerners generally seem to view the region.

i wouldn’t use the word mediterranean here myself but i see where they’re coming from saying that, especially with regards to cultural perception versus the real, lived culture.

westerners traditionally associate the stylings of like, Parthia or maybe the Sassanids with iran/persia. those cultures are also inextricably linked with a wider western image of the bronze age and greece. i think the more interesting part of note here is that westerners tend to conflate classical cultures as all having a general “vibe” that might be described as mediterranean, and both in the case of modern iran or greece it seems that this lasting cultural image is heavily impressed in the social consciousness

i’m responding to this one comment but more generally to the sentiment:

i know this is just a green text

however, it still pisses me off. that’s the written word for ya, huh?

i think you’re one of the people who kind of gets that tho, it’s why im responding here.

the well wishes mean a lot, but, i don’t know if you’re ever truly in a better spot after that.

all we can do is make it better for the next guy. i used to think suicide was the answer. i realized if i was willing to hurt myself i should be willing to help.

token “im an atheist,” but i really think it doesn’t matter what you think. things are right for inherent reasons beyond us. only so many ways to cut a cake and all

i’m sure if we continue down a rabbit hole of discourse i’ll find multiple points where we can agree, but overall it seems we might have different outlooks on life.

that’s okay; people are allowed to be different!

i appreciate your civility and hope i didn’t offend.

remember to live well and for others, u/Classy. if only we all could.

are you and the 93 people who upvoted you crazy??

lmfao in what fucking world is serving divorce papers and then tearing them up right after they’re signed not even just a little bit toxic, if not emotionally abusive?

maybe a fucking adam sandler movie but this is real life.

think before you do stupid shit? other people don’t owe you discretion bc you’re an idiot? “uwu but what about the wife’s feeeeelings????” brother man grow tf up this isn’t a high school fling it’s a marriage. if you wanted to pull shit like this, why did you change it from girlfriend/boyfriend to husband/wife? was that about feelings too?

oop shouldve ran when they had the chance and the papers were signed.

sorry as someone who grew up as a child caught between this stupid shit people like you piss me off so much. this is traumatic for all involved.