Gul Dukat did nothing wrong!

“Only god can judge you. BTW, I’m judging and removing your comments.”

If only two people’s lives are saved as a result of it, it’s a net positive.

Good thing no assumptions have to be made. CEO’s policies had already killed hundreds of thousands of people.

people arrested in Germany for their social media posts that were considered hateful or violent (which is frankly a culture shock to me as an American)

Might want to get used to the idea come 2025…

Oh, that’s “freeze peach.”

we are not a (US) free speech instance.

The “free speech” you always hear people hollering about has nothing to do with this. “Free speech” in the US refers to the government not being allowed to arrest you for what you say, not a social media site removing comments.

No.

1/20/25: FBI Orders Americans to Use Unencrypted Messaging Apps

That doesn’t mean it’s not still a skill issue.

Right, and the poem is written in such a way that implies they do not.

No, go the other way, it’s closer to Aristotle’s name in the original Greek. Ah-ree-stoh-teh-leese.

So did you think “goose” was pronounced like “choose?” Understandable.

I can see why he’d have trouble with those two, because Spanish doesn’t have the English “z” sound. They’ll both sound the same using Spanish pronunciation .

Usually the reason is either because some jerks intentionally changed certain spellings to look more French/Latin (“receipt” didn’t have a “p” originally, for example), or just because English is such a mongrel language with words taken from various other languages with different spelling and pronunciation rules.

They aren’t universally, just in certain dialects. I pronounce the “th” just like with “clothing.”

“Made” and “bade” supposedly not rhyming confused me, how is “bade” supposed to be pronounced?

Same, does it go by another name or something?

He was this timeline’s Anchor Being. Now we’re doomed.