I don’t think of it as an insult generally, but it reads like an insult in this context to me since you certainly weren’t using it a clinical sense and it doesn’t land as a joke imo; now you can say that’s all on me if you want but communication has 2+ parties involved. Even if it wasn’t meant as an insult, it is still ableist language in this context imo and I will call it out even if it makes people uncomfortable.

I really don’t understand why people find it acceptable to make a joke where the punchline is accusing someone of having a mental illness.

To me there is very little difference between that and putting someone down.

Why is it funny to accuse someone with making a minor correction of having OCD?

Sorry, I didn’t mean to strike a nerve. Also sorry to hear you and your spouse have some difficulties with mental and physical challenges in today’s world. I hope you can find some understanding people to cooperate with.

Intent deducing should also go both ways, I did interpret your posts in a somewhat light-hearted manner in line with the comm vibe, but it also just doesn’'t sit right with me using real disorders people have as an insult. I replied in it in the same format as you did but you seemed took offense when I did it even though you used the same format in your comment.

Anyway, I wish you good luck in your journey and thanks for reading.

As you hinted religion is a potential way to control a population into doing what you want as it is a way of controlling what is talked about (and how it is talked about) to manipulate people.

I think what has changed is that now the owners of the media and information landscape can use new technology and psychology to control the narrative better mostly to extract a bit more profit. It is more profitable to keep people scrolling or listening to ragebait on your platform or show than to do proper investigative journalism.

The problem is the vast majority of media sources are controlled by elites who skew their messaging to the perceived whims of their owners which happen to predominately be far right. The population is forced to follow their lead as they have no easy way of influencing public opinion at scale.

And who was it that believed that there was a need for a lie to “deceive” the population into doing the decent thing? I can’t remember which of them said that.

I was going to say it sounds like Vance when he was spreading lies about Haitians migrants eating dogs, but then I saw the decent bit of it.

Also I wonder is that spelling intentional pedant bait? Probably not, but it is in my head canon :)

^ This is a person using OCD as an insult and helping to spread ableist language.

Asking ”what is tagalog” is really disrespectful waste of everybody’s time.

That maybe a bit of an ironic opinion in this community. :)

The phrase ”english and tagalog” clearly indicates that it’s a language. Moreover, it is a single word, which is really, really easy to use a search engine for.

I get that but clarification can be helpful for the next 100 people that read the thread. Chances are most people won’t search it but they still wouldn’t mind knowing anyway.

Maybe I should’ve put an ‘um aCtUaLlY’ in front of the first point as I knew you weren’t saying it literally. I didn’t mean to insult or to put you down, I know we all have different things that annoy us. Anyway thanks for being so gracious and empathetic. :)

No, they are not. Big tech corps don’t care about you, they care about profit. They will gladly assist in genocide for a bit more profit.

There is really no need to reply with that to tell someone to search something themselves. There are better ways to encourage someone to look something up than that.

It is also lowkey annoying to ask a question and get a glib answer like that.

I would say it is mostly an awareness thing. Electric vehicles are thought of as the best for the environment and people aren’t really aware or don’t care that they can cut their Co2 related output by about ~50% with their existing ICE vehicle. People just don’t know that they can choose to use a different fuel and have environmental benefits that way because no one from the car makers to the gas pumps really advertised or educated them on it.

A few car makers did have branded Flex fuel cars but really they were only branded that way to take advantage of a poorly crafted government tax credit. Many existing cars that can run e85 have no indication that they can run it and run cleaner with it which can lead to less maintenance issues and make the mechanic’s job easier.

With that said ethanol is in some respects a worse fuel, since it attracts water which doesn’t play nice with burning and as you mentioned is not as dense, but it is a much better fuel from an environmental perspective. Neither of those issues are deal breaker’s since you can just fill up a little more often or add a fuel additive occasionally to dehydrate the fuel.

I also think maybe the politics of farm subsidies for corn and ethanol are also somewhat of an issue, since massive government subsidies for corn growing and ethanol production are unfairly distorting the market quite a bit. But then again that’s par for the course compared with oil.

I have heard that most of the producers of ethanol have been bought out and taken over by oil companies, so I wouldn’t expect them to make a serious effort to promote it’s benefits or compete well since the oil companies wouldn’t like that.

Any governor that signs a bill rolling back a recent democratically passed voter initiative should be automatically trigger a recall election at the very least.