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Cake day: September 29th, 2023

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  • While I hate Tesla as much as the next person and definitely don’t think anyone should be buying new ones, it’s a little unfair to ask people to just dump their car and buy a new one. That’s a very privileged perspective of like “oh ya I can just sell this and get a new one” especially if (I assume) the value for them has dropped.

    Besides, buying a new one will just put more money into other capitalist pockets because even though other car manufacturers aren’t outright Nazis, they’re still capitalists.

    Many people that bought Tesla in the earlier days thought they were doing a good thing, so I think it’s unfair to punish them now if they can’t afford/don’t want to buy a new one. Put a fuck Elon sticker on it something, sure.





  • garbagebagel@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone11 years ago
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    25 days ago

    I was gonna say… The use of singular they has been around for a heck of a lot longer than 11 years. I didn’t realize it dated all the way back to the 14th century though, that’s neat.

    I get the point, that it wasn’t in common use until somewhat recently (even growing up I had textbooks that used he exclusively), but it’s not a new radical concept of the English language either.


  • garbagebagel@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldDammit OneDrive
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    25 days ago

    I absolutely hate OneDrive and similarly to you would go out of my way to save on my device for work. We had to upgrade to win11 recently and now all my documents, pictures, etc automatically redirect to OneDrive… :| this is an “improvement” according to them.

    Also the amount of copilot that’s being pushed on us. I know AI can do lots of things but holy God let me read my own fucking emails.


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    26 days ago

    I’ve always understood them as either/or, although I always though people wput their preferred one first. Sometimes people will use both when they’re questioning or just want to test one out to see if it feels more comfortable, or sometimes they truly just don’t care.

    Though I remember someone once wanted each specific pronoun to be used depending on what you were saying (i.e. she went to the store where their friend was waiting), which I would try to respect but honestly that’s a whole other level of thinking and I can’t imagine most people being this particular.