Yeah counterintuitively there are a lot of people who learn English as a 2nd language who have better grammar than native speakers because they actually learn the rules.

I can see where you are coming from. My BIL has learning difficulties and was borderline illiterate before smart phones enabled him to communicate in situations he otherwise wouldn’t have been able to. Unfortunately the “like” button still causes issues such as when he liked/shared a meme of a scantily clad black lady with the subtitle “When a n*gga dick hits just right” or something along those lines on facebook - his black cousin was quite offended by that.

That said, I agree with the other commenter that ableism is highly situationally dependent. Screen readers do not handle misspellings well like they mentioned. In my opinon it would be ableist if you were debating with someone or downvoted them due to an ad hominen dislike of their spelling as opposed to their sentiment.

Could be people using a second language like others have mentioned. Another thing could be British vs US english. Webster changed how words were spelt in the early 20th centry to make them more phonetic for Americans, i.e. “colour” -> “color”

Ah yeah that was it. Has been a while!

Amazon warehouse worker cages (so called “wagie cages”) got approved so idk if morality is a limiting factor

Several plot points in that film are absolutely horrifying like the shopkeeper deafening him as a child

How did you download tor?

If I find out then I’ll 100% be making it my ringtone to see which of my friends/colleagues react

Your body starts betraying you.

More specific to becoming a middle aged man, I started finding any sport enjoyable regardless of what it was. Additionally I started listening to history podcasts. Not sure these are gendered activities but there is definitely a stereotype that men start getting more involved in sport and history.

Kind of similar with me. It turned out IBS-like symptoms were one aspect of an Ankylosing Spondylitus diagnosis I got (posted about the disease in more detail yesterday). I had assumed I had a “fast metabolism” or something because I needed the bathroom almost immediately after eating a meal.

Yes I think it is. I’ve always had back pain from mild scoliosis but it got much worse when I hit 30. I got diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitus at 31 which explained why I was getting more extreme bouts of pain in my legs all of a sudden. That disease comes with strange symptoms, in addition to the main ones of rheumatoid arthritus I’ve also had trouble with my motivation/energy levels and uveitis (eye inflammation) problems.

It kind of makes sense on some level that after your mid/late 20s your body has stopped growing and started its slow process of dying. I’m lucky I’ve still got all my hair I guess although that randomly fell out for a year in 2021!

There is a famous US tv edit of Snakes On A Plane where Samuel L Jackson shouts at a pivitol moment, “I’ve had it with these monkey eating snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!”

TV edit of Big Lebowski to be shown on US daytime.

Next time just ask for une pipe

They just respond in English after hearing my childlike attempts to parle français

Never been banned on reddit but I prefer how there is less of a moderation here for my searing hot takes when I feel like shitposting

Yeah if I were being charitable I might imagine they aren’t on the list because they are already subject to extremely high tarrifs and embargoes. Maybe increased those tarrifs could be a bargaining chip in ending the Ukraine invasion. Impossible to tell with Trump though.

Uh I guess my movie enthusiast opinion is that Clerks is a very funny movie that has some surprisingly good social commentary burried under the irreverence.

If we’re talking about the actual morality of normal people working at “evil” companies, then I guess it wouldn’t be an injustice if there was some kind of cosmic punishment for it. The reality is that capitalism is cut throat and typically more “evil” companies like the arms, gambling or tobacco industry offer you better benefits or financial renumeration than ones that don’t have that stigma.

At the same time I’d argue that there are very few truly “good” jobs. A large component of the charity sector is essentially sales; even if you are working at a company building some inoffensive productivity app or B2B software you can end up potentially automating work that used to be done by a human office admin.

At the end of the day you need to work out what your individual tolerance level is for the excesses of capitalism. If society really frowns upon an industry then people vote and the laws change so ultimately those are the parameters you are working within.

My friend used to work at the call centre for Sky tv who are like a cable company in the UK. People phone up because they want to cancel and their job is to try to discourage them from cancelling for another few days. He left after convincing a legally blind lady to keep her tv subscription.

The purpose of school is to get you used to going to a grey building with people you hate every day