I love how the message of SpongeBob as a character is that you don't have to suppress your joyful nature to be an adult. You can be an adult thats true to themselves and in touch with their silly side. You should just be you since you're the only person who can ever be you
"he or she" is LEGITIMATELY grammatically inferior to "they"
- breaks up sentence flow
- unneeded contingency
- clunky and annoying when repeated
- forces an unnecessary assumption onto the reader that acts as a cognitive obstacle
If $20/hr min wage bothers you because it's more or the same or “too close to” what you're making, direct that anger to your bosses who are underpaying you, not to other people who are also underpaid.
Once you recognize the “nuclear family” as a mechanism to enforce the view of women + children as assets to be managed as opposed to socially develop its participants, you will recognize why it needs to be utterly abolished
capitalism has ruined people’s outlook on the world and made people think it’s ok to be extremely selfish and greedy when it isn’t.
it’s not normal to think human beings should go without shelter, food, and healthcare if they have no money. it’s so dystopian
if you live in a society where people are stealing food to survive that’s an indictment of that society’s institutional failures. it is not a moral failing of individuals
I appreciate the sentiment, but that is not who they came for first. You should look up who they came for first. Many people at that parade are coming for them, too.
copy editing straight up does not fucking exist anymore & publications of all kinds at the highest levels of professionalism are rife with spelling, grammatical, mechanical, usage errors & AI killed any hope of it ever getting better because they're training on the shitty data.
y’all ever think about how if you don’t get an annual raise equal to or greater than the rate of currency inflation, you have effectively gotten a pay cut