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Thankfully it doesn’t say it all.
Media doesn’t report it all, just the parts that keep people scared.
Don’t forget depressed and helpless too. We survived a pandemic and a failed coup, we’re pretty bad ass.
I don’t think Prem Thakker’s mastered semicolons quite yet.
sometimes in math textbooks they use semicolons when listing things. maybe prem thakker’s writing this post for the mathematicians
You can use semicolons when listing things instead of commas, but that’s usually only for clarity when listing things with commas in them (e.g. “Last summer I visited Las Vegas, Nevada; Tucson, Arizona; Seattle, Washington; and Sacramento, California.”)
I’m mean, you’re not wrong about the semicolon usage but your example is absolute dogwater. I may be sleep deprived but why in Poseidon’s briny deeps would you use a semicolon to separate sentence fragments into their own phrases?!
e.g. “Last year, I went to Germany, Spain, Italy, and France; and ate schnitzel, ham, gelato, and olives.”
Because that was the usage I was describing. What you’re describing is just ordinary usage.
That comes with Premium Thakker;
Semicolons can be used to list items that are more than just a word or two long, and may/may not contain commas. So if you’re listing phrases contain commas, putting a comma between list entries would be confusing as fuck.
For example… I will list a few US capital cities, and their corresponding states: Albany, New York, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Sacramento, California, Houston, Texas…
Compare that to: Albany, New York; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Sacramento, California; Houston, Texas.
See? Much clearer.
I don’t know if this person did it exactly correctly, and I’m not going to go back and read it again to check, but the idea itself is just fine.
Unless a lot has changed about semi-colons in the past 20 years.
Edit: I reluctantly went up to read it again, and it seems like the only thing missing would be a colon after “The combo of” and a comma before “really says it all”
I think the semicolons are correct too (though the colon you mentioned would add a lot of clarity). This grammar rule comes up infrequently enough that it can be jarring to encounter a semicolon before reaching the end of a properly formed independent clause.
How can they when schools are so dangerous!?
Same as it ever was.
Or as we call it in America, Tuesday
Truth
Hehe it kinda almost rhymes
This is getting way too much arguing for a 4 day old post. I’m going to lock it.
What’s this about leader inciting terrorism to demonize immigrants? Does anyone know what he’s referring to?
That would be the Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates’ false claims that the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are 1) illegal, 2) causing mass crime, and 3) eating the townsfolk’s pets. All of these have been debunked. That has not stopped bomb threats, school and business closings, and rantings by other right-wing nutjob clingers-on to the same effect, denigrating a full 20% of this Midwestern town.
Several area Republicans have come out pleading for the rhetoric to stop, but because the hate is a feature, not a bug, the VP candidate came out and said: “if I have to make stories up to get the media’s attention I will and won’t feel bad”, and has doubled down on these lies.
Bro, I don’t get why you’re being down voted when asking for clarification on content and therefore contributing to the conversation. I’ve slightly tipped those scales as this is a critically important scandal leading up to the election
…really says it all huh
No it doesn’t. It doesn’t say it all. All it says is that the author is addicted to the infotainment algorithms and fancies himself to understand EVERYTHING… and it’s all bleak, all cynicism.
Nothing they said is false though… I don’t know the exact cop shooting and school shooting being referred to, but those are pretty interchangeable, aren’t they? Plenty of options there.
So should we just ignore societal issues because they’re bleak? How has that worked out for us?
Welcome to Lemmy, enjoy the propaganda.
What are they referencing in the first instance?
If it’s the subway thing, I’m pretty sure you need four people to be a mass shooting.
Also don’t pull knives on cops.
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You could always try less than lethal weapons, like a Taser.
Oh wait, they did. Twice.
You could let the asshole go and not be a murderer
So he can threaten someone else with a knife? That dude was a time bomb.
Yeah someone could get killed if he got away! Oh wait …
Wild that people would suggest that if someone threatens the police with a knife they should decide to let them go.
Andy they would be screaming if he then proceeded to attack someone else.
Yeah, the intention is just to divide people.
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I don’t think objecting to police brutality and summary execution is authoritarian. That’s more like the opposite.
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Yes, of course that’s not authoritarian, but it is probably authoritarian propaganda.
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Assume much?
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A good reminder of the effort I’ve put in fighting authoritarian propaganda, thanks.
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Did they wind up finding the knife? Last I heard they weren’t able to, which cast doubt on its existence.
If the dude was threatening the cops with a knife there’s no way they would have let the knife out of their sight. I doubt there ever was a knife, and if there ever was it sounds like they abandoned the weapon to go kill the guy.
Also don’t pull knives on cops.
and even more importantly: always believe whatever the cops say! :)
get out and stop paying taxes that finance policies you don’t support.
there’s plenty of other more affordable, beautiful places to live with all the modern amenities, plus the social services lacking in the US.
Getting to those countries is not exactly cheap or easy especially if the IRS is after you for tax evasion
It’s a few hundred dollars to get to Asia, less to Europe, and usually less than $100 to fly from country to country after that for 3 to 6 months at a time, visa free or filling out a ten minute e-visa application.
stack that up against $1,600 a month for an apartment in the states, plus insurance and car payments and all that bullshit, traveling is the vastly cheaper option.
do not evade taxes, get educated.
If you live outside of the US for 330 or more days out of the year, you qualify for the FEIE, Foreign earned income exclusion.
you fill out one more IRS tax form at the same time as all your other tax forms, and you don’t pay up to $120,000 in US income tax.
That’s the US tax code and is in no way tax evasion.
My bad didn’t realize how easy it is for anyone to have a few hundred laying around then fly to a new country every couple of months. It’s hard enough to move across a state let alone the planet. What visas do you expect to be able to acquire with such frequency? Work visas? Do you need to find a new job in a new country every few months? Pay double taxes for the first year? Learn 10 languages to find work? Have no friends family or belongings? Or instead of working should people be saving up all the money required to do this while paying all those US costs you’re saying are so high? How does a work visa work if you go the savings route? How do you find housing every few months? Blindly apply to places and hope you don’t stumble into a slumlord situation? Only monthly agreements? Where are you finding plane tickets from the US to Europe or Asia so cheap (this one is an actual question I want to travel and need to know)? If this plan works for you honestly that’s amazing I’m happy for you live your best life. But honestly who exactly do you think a majority of people are that they can just stand up one day and fuck off to the other side of the planet like they’re picking out new clothes?
Please pay all the taxes you are supposed to, even if you leave.
If you live outside of the US for 330 or more days out of the year, you qualify for FEIE, Foreign earned income exclusion.
you fill out one more IRS tax form, the FEIE form, at the same time as all your other tax forms, and you don’t pay up to $120,000 in US income tax according to IRS regulations.
That’s the US tax code.
Countries that are worth moving to are typically quite choosy about who they let in.
You’re accusing beautiful countries with unique, fascinating cultures like Japan, France, Laos, Australia, England and 100 other countries of not being worth traveling to.
It’s easy to get to these countries, with or without a Visa.
every place in Western Europe is one visa-free plane ticket away.
other great countries are a connecting flight or train ride.
a visa takes 15 minutes if you need one.
Tourist visa, sure. The process to actually relocate somewhere is a whole different ballgame.
same process.
buy a ticket, hop over.
or buy a ticket, fill out a visa form, hop over.
whatever the type of Visa is, you check the requirements, fill out a(usually online) form, submit it and receive your Visa.
Dude, immigration is not as easy as you think it is.
It’s incredible just how detached from reality they are.
everything I’ve said is backed up with incontrovertible evidence.
You’re modeling fashionably ignorant cynicism because you don’t understand how the big, wide world works.
It’s genuinely amazing how far out of touch you are, I don’t even know where to start.
You definitely don’t just fill out an online form to move to my country permanently.
“I don’t even know where to start.”
you sure don’t.
“You definitely don’t just fill out an online form to move to my country permanently.”
wherever you heard that, you’re misunderstanding how travel works again.
If you want to move to one country and never move again, you usually have to become a permanent resident, which is slightly different than a visa process, but ultimately similar with longer waiting periods.
