Says the guy who said they asked 3 people from a closely associated subgroup about their preferred term, they all agreed with my stance, and so I applied it to the general population, specifically an individual who isn’t also a part of that subgroup. At least, I sincerely hope you aren’t a close relative of Trump.
First, when you use someone who obviously has dementia as your reference point for what a group of people do, you are probably wrong unless the groups you’re referring to is people with dementia.
Second, promoters use the terms people are most likely to associate with the products they’re promoting, not what it is or think it should be called. That’s why you’ll hear diamond advertisements use the word diamond and not carbon allotrope, because one of them has no relevance to their customers.
Third, I’m not here to talk about Trump. Ive been saying shitty things about him since before Lemmy existed, and this tidbit is almost completely irrelevant to the issues Canada has with respect to Trump. I’m here to talk about your hot take that is probably relevant to the 2% of Americans (that number is for color and is neither an opinion nor an assertion, and if it is a fact, that is purely coincidental) who naturally assume hockey refers to field hockey or who have declined sufficiently due to dementia that they have difficulty with context when speaking.
And my point is that most Americans know of hockey just like most Canadians do, and while there may be more Americans playing field hockey than Canadians, I expect most Americans also refer to ice hockey as hockey, and field hockey as field hockey. Unless they’re an ignoramus with dementia, in which case, here we are.
One can also reference how the promoters of the leagues refer to themselves.
https://www.usafieldhockey.com/
Both the people running ice hockey and field hockey in America recognize that, in general for the country, hockey by itself refers to ice hockey and not field hockey.
Also, while there may be some dialectical differences in this respect between Canadians and Americans, that likely doesn’t apply to someone who grew up in New York City. Moreover, his education until his twenties was gained in New York City, so it’s difficult to say it was some quirk of his education. So how they refer to hockey in some region of America that hasn’t touched ice that wasn’t floating in a drink isn’t really relevant to this discussion.
Oh, I’m sorry, I wasn’t aware that field hockey was one of the major league sports that can be found playing in any sports bar in America provided it’s in season. That must be the big difference between Americans and Canadians. Thanks for clearing that up!
Look at videos of him speaking in the 80s, after 9/11, during his 2016 campaign, and now. He’s always been a narcissistic prick, and was showing clear signs of decline in 2016 to 2020, but it’s worse now.
We don’t have to guess about these things, we have documented records of him showing his best face throughout the years, and it’s clear he’s becoming less articulate and having less control (or desire to control) what he says. The latter may certainly be choice, but the former doesn’t really look like it. This isn’t a matter of him using simpler language to appeal to his audience, this is him having less capability to form coherent thoughts.
I had this exact opinion when Amazon lost less money than expected in 1999. I’m sure people had similar opinions before 1929. This isn’t something new.
Exactly so.
This reminds me of a story. I knew someone who worked with an autistic person, and he’d keep answering the door in his underwear. She’d say, “Hey, you need to get dressed,” and off he’d go to get dressed, but she complained that this just kept happening. So I said to her, “Did you try telling him that he should be dressed before he answers the door?” Well, no, of course she hadn’t told him that because obviously she doesn’t want him answering the door in his underwear. So I told her, “The next time this happens, tell him, ‘It’s not appropriate to answer the door in your underwear. When I’m coming over, make sure you’re dressed before you answer the door.’” And what do you know, this autistic retiree doesn’t answer the door in his underwear any more. For her, at least, which is still an improvement, and at an age where most would have given up on him learning anything new. It just needed to be presented to him in a clear, unambiguous manner and he was happy to comply.
I had a child with ASD who couldn’t draw a bath by the time they were 10. My wife and I were separated and she just coddled them. Once I realized their siblings were doing it for them, I spent 2 weekends showing them what to do and the problem was solved. Years worth of delay because they’re “special”. Still dealing with the aftermath of that attitude where just because things will be harder for them their mom didn’t even try.
Ah, I knew I recognized the guy. Thank you!
White Christmas, released in 1954, for example.
I need movie sources!
Pretty sure the other one was Jingle All the Way, but I can’t pin this one down.
What they’re saying is this is only tangentially agriculture. We grow crops, process them, and make additives for fuel or just fuel. If we stopped doing all that, we could provide enough electricity to make all the cars electric.
This, of course, doesn’t take into consideration things such as battery requirements, etc. but it does give perspective on just how much land is being used for some small fraction of car fuel, and how absurd biofuel is, given how little we actually use relative to our overall fuel use.
Edit: everything else you said is true, but even turning biofuel land into grazing land and having it covered by solar panels would be more useful. And we need more batteries.
TLDR; they use e-bike batteries for electrical power rather than gasoline generators.
This isn’t the early 2000s, pretty much any video player can slow down without audio distortion. Play that back at 50% speed and find me that R you’re talking about. I’m not hearing it.
I should, but I don’t need to to know the horrors of war, even if I’ve been fortunate enough to not experience them personally. I’ve also read Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and have a fair idea about the horrors of living under an authoritarian regime, even if I’ve been fortunate enough to not experience them personally. One of the best ways to stop war is to resist those who would change the borders of other nations through violence, using whatever means are necessary, particularly if there are known abuses of their own citizens, let alone those they conquer, such as we have seen so many times with Russia.
He’s done little better than an index fund overall, financially. This isn’t a credit to his supposed financial genius, index funds are very conservative.
I’m okay with being at war with any country that crosses their neighbors borders and starts attacking them. Russia is on that list, as is America since they attacked Venezuela.
Also hurt the wrong people - rich people.
They did everything wrong in that video. On of their assertions was that soldiers wouldn’t be able to keep their mirrors properly polished. I don’t know about now, but even 40 years ago, polishing brass was a common punishment detail. I imagine it was moreso in Archimedes’ day, when brass and bronze were the thing to use. Also, there are techniques for using a signaling mirror to hit a specific location which aren’t that complicated, would certainly be something that Archimedes could figure out, and would work better for aligning the mirrors than “try really hard to aim at that spot.” The ridiculous assumptions they make besides those also detract from the goal of a best effort to test the heat ray, and seem to stem from the idea that people back then were stupider than we are rather than just not having accumulated as much knowledge as we had.
It was entertaining, but not as informative as I would have liked.