Well that’s the trick, isn’t it? The people who rule presume consent, but what they are really expecting is compliance. Your compliance is presumed consent. You can revoke your compliance any time you like, but the rulers will respond to noncompliance with force.
There’s a process within the law, and there’s a process where we replace the current law with something else. Within the law, we can vote for representatives who will impeach the current corrupt justices and approve new ones who are hopefully not corrupt. Let’s call that option A.
Option B is the total overthrow of the government, which is ridiculous to even consider, but it’s the alternative you’re hinting at. Denouncing the SCOTUS doesn’t change the ruling government in any way. Society is built on the idea that we all more or less agree to be ruled in exchange for fair rules and national defense. In a democracy, you have the appearance of agency, but you cannot simply withdraw consent to be ruled. The difference between democracy and fascism is that fascism explicitly defines violence as the means of control, while democracy merely implies that violence will be used to keep order. Once a democratically elected ruler decides to become fascist, there is no remedy but violence.
To wit, those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.
That said, I do not think we’re quite there yet. I have no doubt Trump will try to go all in to remain in power, but I don’t think he actually has enough followers to pull it off.
But that still leaves the corrupt justices on the bench. We need to focus on elections for representatives willing to impeach corrupt justices. If you think that process is too slow, consider that a violent revolution would probably take decades of bloodshed, and there’s no guarantee we don’t get some other despot as a result. Violence is not the answer to this question.
That’s not an argument. You’re just being insulting and belligerent. Acronyms are not pronounced based on their constituent words. You need to let that go, because it makes you the asshole.
There are two factors that determine how words are pronounced in English, and this is precisely true of every fucking word in the language. There’s the original pronunciation, and then there’s common usage. If English borrows a word from another language, like “bruschetta,” there’s the original pronunciation “brooskett” and then there’s the American pronunciation “brooshetta” because fuck all that. Say either one and you’ll be understood, and you’ll have spoken English. Neither is “wrong” because people know you want some expensive salsa on tiny toast.
It’s the same with gif. There was the original pronunciation, and then basically nobody said the word out loud for 20 years because only nerds cared about the extension format wars. Then the internet brought memes to your grandmother, and suddenly everyone was sharing dancing_baby.gif and hardly anyone knew how to say it. People actively avoided saying the word because they didn’t want to sound stupid.
Then one day, some extra stupid people decided that they had enough of that bullshit, and they would not be made to feel stupid for not knowing how to pronounce a word. They shouldn’t have felt stupid, because again, English doesn’t work that way, but at that time the nerds were strutting around like they had invented confidence. Technical pronunciations were like a geek shibboleth that signaled you had in fact RTFM, and because pendulums swing, techies were bullying people online about it.
But I did call them stupid people, because they were stupid. Not because they didn’t know how to pronounce a word, but because they chose obstinate ignorance over truth. There was a common, original pronunciation for gif, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. The fact that graphics is pronounced with a hard g doesn’t matter in the slightest, because that’s not a rule that ever existed before someone got mad about gifs. The only thing worse than a shitbag who bullies you for being wrong about something is a shitbag who bullies you for being right about something.
Talk how you like. This is, for now, a free world. English evolves, and life is too short to spend your days arguing with an amateur linguist online, because this guy has two thumbs and will absolutely continue this conversation until you regret engaging in it. Be free. Your hard on for the hard g is a stone you carry around for no one, and all you have to do is set it down.
You’re welcome to pronounce any word any way you like. I’m not going to change the way I’ve been saying a word for 30 years just because you don’t like it. If you’re understood, it’s all good.
Check out Immich next. It’s sort of like a self-hosted Google photos except it allows you to own your photos.
There’s dozens of us! I’m just old enough to remember when the file format was new and people talked about it.
You can just block whole communities and even instances, if you prefer. I use the blocking feature for forums in foreign languages. It’s not like an insult or anything. You can just hide all the F1 and comic book stuff.
More than half. Less than 25% of people use the original pronunciation of gif, and two people in this thread have repeated the absurd misconceptions that popularized the new pronunciation.
There is no wrong. English doesn’t have wrong pronunciations. You’re either understood or you aren’t. There’s the original pronunciation, and there’s the new pronunciation. Both are used, so neither is wrong.
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Acronyms do not work that way! It isn’t a thing. You’re talking nonsense.
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You’ll never end the debate about how to pronounce Gif. Homophones exist. There’s a pronunciation guide in the original documentation, and that didn’t end the debate.
I agree with my boss, too, even when she’s wrong.
Nothing wrong with Swift, but she’s not a political though-leader. Best I can tell, the conservative vitriol has more to do with misogyny than any particular message she’s putting out into the world.
Who’s that lady that wrote the folk song “It’s not going away”? There are like three or four folk groups and troubadours writing protest songs for tiktok. Mon Rovia with Heavy Foot, Jesse Welles with The Poor, stuff like that.
Taylor Swift sorta got under Trump’s skin, but she’s not particularly political.
4k tvs existed before the content existed. I think the larger issue is that the difference between what is and what could be is not worth the additional expense, especially at a time when most people struggle to pay rent, food, and medicine. More people watch videos on their phones than watch broadcast television. 8k is a solution looking for a problem.
ER was the first one that came to mind.
It is good, and really easy to make. Matter of fact, I could use one right now.
It was a trend that had a little burst of popularity. It’s a type of frappe that is popular in Korea. It’s made with instant coffee, sugar, and water. Whip that until it forms silky peaks. Take a tall glass with ice, add 8 oz of milk, top with the whipped coffee mixture.
When everything shut down and supply chains were temporarily disrupted, coffee shops were closed and fresh coffee beans were at a premium. Dalgona coffee is a fancy frappe made with cheap, shelf-stable ingredients (you could substituted the milk for nut milk or powdered).
If he talked to you about it, you probably would have talked him out of it. Tells me deep down he knew it was stupid, but he wanted to do it.
I would talk to him about that part of it, help him recognize the choice he made to ignore your voice of reason in his own head.
I wouldn’t punish him for it, especially because he came to you to talk about it, but he’s getting closer to the age when he has to really pay attention to that voice in his head because you won’t be with him for every decision. Although, my kids often act like having to talk to me about things is punishment enough.