[–] 2 points 2 years ago

all of life has dying built in… that’s a pretty big limit to your limitless growth….

in an ecosystem when a population doesn’t balance, that’s called a plague and it kills themselves and everything else.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    yeah, it’s almost as if language is an evolving thing….
    but fuck that noise, i only accept definitions from the 1876 edition of Merrium-Webster… all other usages are wrong.
    (i do seriously had when the nounify a verb like “cringe” or making “sus” mean anything at all bad…

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    dude is masculine in every definition i’ve found (looked it up) except for a city slicker new to a ranch…
    i’ve always known it to be gender neutral… but i have a female friend that gets offended every time someone calls her that.
    but the fact that it keeps happening means that it’s gender neutral to all of those people too (she’s a fairly feminine female).
    that said, it’s best to just call people terms that they are comfortable with, not ones that you’re comfortable calling them.
    personally, i find calling a single person they/them a little obtuse, but it’s not really that hard. (slightly confusing when there’s a question of whether im referring to them or a group of people).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    rittenhouse should’ve been federal… but he (supposedly) crossed state lines to enforce the law and ended up murdering someone….
    i think he hoped to murder someone but still, it’s different and pretty clearly a federal case.
    ….
    they definitely selectively enforce it, like when some anarchists drove from portland to Seattle in order to spray paint a courthouse during a protest: that became federal charges because they anarchists, mostly….
    i was honestly surprised when states were charging luigi instead of the feds at first

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    that’s not how it works….
    luigi, allegedly, traveled across state lines for the sole purpose of the killing, and immediately left the state.
    Zapeta-Calil was living in ny and committed a murder while he was there. He didn’t travel there just to burn someone… he was there already and did it….
    but god damn that’s a horrible way to die. the worst i can imagine except for some deliberately slow torture….

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