cf. “teachers”

You are a hominid. We are a troupe species. We are susceptible to social manipulation which can overwhelm our reasoning, because we survived based on trust.

Some of us have overstimulated amygdalas because of biology and various kinds of anxiety. This enhances the vulnerability to manipulation by another minority, the sociopaths.

For the species to continue to survive, we must keep the sociopaths from manipulating and the amygdaloids from falling into cults.

If you accept it, this is your mission.

Hm, I guess an encyclopedia article is more relevant than a dictionary definition, so sure. I was using the looser secondary definition… in this case an elision that references a dialect in order to call up regional relevance to the opinion expressed.

I dunno, cf. 1.b definition of idiom in the OED: dialect usage, and 2.a is dialect usage for effect. Maybe the definition is changing with the ages, or your usage is overly strict.

Well we can argue over the niceties of the word idiom, but as it’s referring to the way the word is pronounced in specific regions of North America, it qualifies as meeting one of the definitions of idiom.

Elision refers more to the absence of an understood word, such as saying ‘my bad’.

My bad, elision can also refer to slurring syllables together, so it’s both.

I haven’t analyzed this or studied it properly, but I suspect that the bias referenced here is more “settler state good” and “colonialism by allies is fine”, and it’s particularly acute in this context because so much money and ideology and geopolitical fuckery relies upon Israel.

That speling gave me eye twitches.

In the English language, specifically North American dialects, this is a form of idiom.

Nah, the commenter calls out Israel in other threads.

I thought it was just a troll account but madlian has posted 200+ comments on a 1 week account and is not agitating or a contrarian, is not even wrong most of the time, just contemptuous and enjoys being an asshole.

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Try and find a non-American credit card that actually works. It’s fucked.

It’s David Fucking Suzuki. He’s a bit of a turd in some parts of his personal life but on the environment he’s completely dedicated, and generally Not Wrong about science.

GardaWorld = Police Planet

Fuck those guys eh

Yes, we call that “structural racism”.

Yep, all of that too: Okotoks and Airdrie are basically suburbs now.

Calgary relatives: “oh I’m just going to zip up to Edmonton for the day” or go for a coffee 40km to the other side of town or just do the daily 130km commute etc.

There are many reasons to buy local, especially for canadians.

When it comes to food, you benefit from better practices, for instance. In B.C., even if you aren’t buying organic, most of our producers are using some form of integrated pest management, and are smaller family farms, so you’re getting a cleaner product.

Also, more obviously, we have decent safety standards, and while we also have a big farm worker exploitation problem to solve, there’s some momentum in improving that.

That’s… a very russian attitude!

Yeah way to advertise that you’re a mouth-breather, right?

Slept in. Talked about layers of post colonial identity over coffee. Worked on our resilience garden. Now working on all the little dishes for a mezze table for and cleaning up the BBQ.

Patriotism sucks and it’s particularly bad right now because it’s nose-holdingly necessary.

Happy not-fukan-amurrican day.

Going to add a few Iranian dishes to the menu in that spirit.