I suspect one of two things are happening, or maybe a mix of both:

1. Trump doesn’t like the insinutations that he himself isn’t in control.

2. Musk’s public image issues are now affecting the bottom lines of his companies.

These things are direct results of both men being complete imbeciles. Nothing more to see here.

The value is getting you not to use competitors.

Privatization is literally the “solution” the GOP has for everything. Even when there isn’t necessarily a problem, they will claim privatization is the solution.

That’s what happens when there is a party by the rich for the rich.

Free games are pure marketing. Don’t confuse it.

They can take them away at their whim.

Their sole purpose is to get you used to using Epic over other services.

If When

No good options anymore. I have been naked for 3 ½ years.

Whew, good thing I heard there will be no new wars with Trump as US president

Gee, if only Mitch had known someone in some high position with an actual chance to stop the fucking Trump train…

I get the sneaking suspicion that all the “but both parties are the same people” are going to end up kind of right – but maybe not in the way they thought.

From my vantage point, there is only rich vs poor. Any other ideological divide either a) has been worsened by rich vs poor, or b) was invented to keep attention away from rich vs poor, à la divide and conquer.

ChatGPT and any AI model will trend however its training data trends. If right-wing content trends upward online, it will influence model output.

Republicans just took power.

Not unexpected at all.

This kind of thinking is exactly what is meant by “prescriptive grammar”. It is, in many ways, not even grammar, at least not in the scientific sense.

Amusingly enough, modern day prescriptivists would now probably flag Mr. Ellwood for a run-on sentence.

It has been in usage a long time – and yet, it is still considered “improper” English by many a grammarian (though improper English is as nonexistent as Standard American English).

In the 18th century, there was a push away from singular they on the basis that it did not fit within the logic of the agreement paradigm as some understood it. Most (if not all) rules suggesting it is poor usage derive from this thinking.

But this is exactly the problem: the fact that singular they arose naturally is the point. If it does not fit within one’s understanding of the agreement paradigm, then that understanding is wrong. That is the key difference between prescriptivism and descriptivism, at least in the way those are often discussed in Linguistics.

If those grammarians cared about grammar as much as they claimed, they would be seeking to better describe it and not trying to change the way that others use it. When I say that they don’t understand “language change is pervasive and unstoppable”, I mean that prescriptivism is naturally conservative in suggesting that one should not deviate from some particular usage; that isn’t how language works.

PS- I assume your quoting is to suggest “ingrained”, but I’d argue that ingrained and engrained both work in this context. Even if we disagree there, spelling isn’t really about language either – simply one possible representation of it. Given that the purpose of language is information transfer, if I had put “ngrayned” above and you had gotten my meaning, then it would have served its purpose.

People who were/are upset about singular they really don’t understand that language change is pervasive and unstoppable. Shifts in pronoun agreement are no different.

Prescriptive grammarians cling to their (arbitrary) rules because they believe in a “pure” form of the language. That itself is a misunderstanding and just mirrors other common things some people do to divide the masses. Do not listen to such people.

As someone deeply engrained in the field of Linguistics for decades (personally, academically, and professionally), I can tell you that one of the biggest challenges in teaching people how language actually works is breaking down the preconceived notions they have about such things – the exact notions those prescriptivists tout.

They don’t want educated people. They want large numbers of the uneducated because it keeps labor costs low.

There is reason that birthrate and education are always top of the list (after tax cuts for the rich).

Tax dollars are definitely being stolen… by this unelected buffoon

Sure seems like he’s filled that swamp back up

My parents holding fast with “well, it’s always been like that” made me realize how big this generational divide is.

There are good boomers who get it, yes. There are also some really dumb ones who have literally no clue what kind of world they helped create. Full stop.

attempted coup

Never forget: the P in GOP stands for “projection”.

The free speech absolutist at work