I also definitely would not eat there. I don’t know why it’s assumed that you would eat dinner there after being stood up. I’d be sad and I’d want to be alone, at absolute most I’d get takeout, but there’s probably a greasier takeout that I want, but have been restraining myself from. I’d very much prefer tacos/falafel to a date restaurant meal if I’ve just been stood up.

PBS/NPR?

I assumed it was a really dark joke about missing First Nations women

You have to cherry pick to post a meme like this

To be fair, there’s a shocking number of made up words… that’s part of the fun?

Do you think all people are exactly the same level of social or just dislike that it’s considered a binary?

Depends on how wrong it is. I’m unable to digest pork and will say something if there’s bacon on my food. I don’t like sun dried tomatoes and will happily pick them off.

I’ve thought about launching an anti woke brand and doing it, but the amount of hate I’d need to surround myself by would not be good for the soul

That’s you indulging in your fears about cultural change through a straw man, obviously it will disgust you. Luckily it’s not real, so you can focus on other things.

In the study, Professor Henneberg and colleagues aimed to investigate the prevalence of persistent median arteries in postnatal humans over the last 250 years and to test the hypothesis that a secular trend of increase in its prevalence has occurred.

That’s a fun new definition of “secular”

Technically slowing down is also a form of acceleration, because it’s a change in speed/direction. Technically the US is developing, just downwards.

💦👏🧴👏💦 damn. That’s really the closest you can get

I have no idea if they decided to write the article in a biased way, but I don’t know if that matters. The people reading it still associate the article with “baseless claims,” which colors their view.

No, it’s the word choice in the sentence as a whole. “Baseless claims” and “categorically denied” make it seem like the article was nonsense. “Controversy” acknowledges that there are different accounts of what happened, but doesn’t pick a side and “denied” feels like the most neutral choice to me, but I’m a layperson and there are entire classes in journalism programs dedicated to neutral phrasing. Calling the article “insightful journalism” is obviously biased and saying “continues to deny” sounds even more supportive of the journalist’s claims, because it implies that people are continuously asking Israel about it, which further implies that multiple people are unsatisfied with Israel’s account of the events.

The article included baseless claims such as capturing soldiers in Jabaliya, which the IDF categorically denied.

This is a sentence from the article. If they were neutral towards the subject, they might have written it like this:

controversy surrounded the article, which described the IDF capturing soldiers in Jabaliya, something the Israeli government has denied.

If they were active supporters, it might have sounded like this:

his insightful journalistic work exposed the IDF’s capture of soldiers in Jabaliya, which they continue to deny.

I don’t pronounce that in my dialect, so I intentionally don’t write it in informal situations. The loss of American dialects in favor of TV English is a tragedy, in my opinion, so I try to keep mine alive :)

They better lower the retirement age for women as well, or they’re just stealing a year of women’s lives.

Also “morphing into”? Maybe I’m out of touch, but this is not new

Why the grudge?

Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, though he was elected in 2008, so it’s easy to confuse.