So has the US, but I don’t think that’s gonna save us.

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Or there maybe there should be appropriate repercussions for being here illegally, and not jump straight to imprisonment unless there’s violent crime involved. Also, the path to legal citizenship should be reasonable and equal for all. As an aside, maybe stop deporting legal citizens too, but now I’m really talking crazy!

Exactly the same here. Even started making my own bread. So much better than store bought anyway!

I feel kinda bad for small local businesses and restaurants, but I just don’t trust the economy to spend anything discretionary right now.

I think I’m even more scared now that this has gone from “potentially screwing up by adding the wrong person to a Signal group,” to “doesn’t even know how to add a contact to their iPhone” level of incompetence. How do these people even manage to put on their pants?

Because this just “happens” to everyone, right? The iPhone did it, not him screwing up. This feels like “the dog ate my homework“ level of investigation.

I don’t need a timer though.

I have brief mode on, she doesn’t give a shit. I need “say the absolute minimum number of words” mode.

Now they can hear me scream “shut the fuck up Alexa!!!” every time she says “…by the way…” when I just want to know what time it is.

…and now I have Careless Whispers stuck in my head. You’re welcome.

But wait, isn’t this some sort of official government communication channel now? Sure there must be uptime agreements and penalties for such a thing, right? Right?!?

Just post a bunch of geese as your border guards (and maybe international trade negotiators too?) and you’ll be fine. I feel they’re an underutilized Canadian resource!

Unfortunately it likely won’t be the billionaires suffering, so I’m not sure how much meaningful rethinking will be going on unless pressure on them is relentless.

“Meat shield” is not a new term and explicitly means using another human to prevent being shot / killed. That’s all people are saying about Musk’s behavior when they refer to him using his kid in this fashion. Nothing beyond that (by that specific term anyway).

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/meat_shield

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/human_shield#English

That doesn’t change the fact his father is using him as an anti-assassination accessory. It’s in no way criticizing the kid, but calling out his father’s abhorrent behavior. In fact we should call it out because maybe it will shame Musk into stopping (of course it won’t).

And I stand by mine, as “snuff something out” in the modern Cambridge dictionary is “to cause to end suddenly,” and of course that’s what they’re trying to do by using a polygraph as “evidence” (which it’s not going to accomplish, but that doesn’t stop attempted improper usage of the device). Their approach (as in many things) is horribly wrong, but the reporter’s word usage is not improper.

If you want to go the linguistic history route, “snuff” literally meant “to sniff at in order to examine” starting in 1810, so it’s technically (the best kind of?) correct to use it in this context, although still awkward in terms of modern colloquialisms.

I think it’s meant to “snuff out” as in “kill” the leaks, not necessarily the perpetrators. Like, we’re gonna do this to end the leaks. The wording is somewhat awkward and questionable, but not necessarily incorrect. Snuff out is used to refer to extinguishing candles, so it’s not unheard of to use it in contexts other than ending human lives.

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