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  • Case in point.

  • "Does anyone else... (have trouble finishing video games/use their toenail clippings to add texture to a pot of chili/etc.)?"

  • Upvoted for the appropriate Salt and Sanctuary reference.

  • No, I have it the right way around. Artificial languages can be irregular, so your order doesn't follow.

    No regular language can be natural, though, so if you come across a regular language, you can always correctly conclude that it's artificial through modus tollens:

    "If a language is natural, then it is not regular. This language is regular, therefore it is not natural."

  • Lots of !badlinguistics in this thread (but some goodlinguistics too though!).

  • You must resent every single natural human language then, since all of them show the exact same kinds of irregularities, for the most part.

    And, if we all did decide to use Esperanto because it's regular (and therefore artificial), irregularities would inevitably be introduced within a single generation, because the nature of human language is to change, and that change will always result in irregularity.

  • An excellent choice.

  • Probably a-ha's "Take On Me" if I'm being honest.

  • I'm an older millennial and I have no idea who Cypress Hill is.

  • Since you're getting blasted here, I just wanted to hop on the downvote train to let you know that I think you're exactly right on all counts.

  • For anyone else who was unfamiliar, the GPI is the "Global Peace Index", and it has literally nothing to do with this conversation - it's just the first metric TechNerdWizard42 could pull out of their ass where the US is ranked low.

  • TIL we actually live on the Bionis

  • Like go ahead and argue for an end to misandristic violence if you’d like.

    Nah, I'll go ahead and argue for an end to all violent crime, and not exclude the victims who aren't lucky enough to have their gender be the reason they were murdered.

    I've never understood this prevalent idea that murder victims are only worth caring about if their gender played a role. Like, how horribly fucked-up is it to say that some murder victims are more worthy of concern than others, especially when those victims only comprise a small minority of murders?

    Being killed because of your gender and being killed because you were in the wrong place or because you looked like an easy mark are all equally bad reasons to murder someone. They're also all phenomena that could just as easily be addressed by government programs like in the OP, and yet all we ever hear about is the "violence against women" epidemic that only affects a minority of victims.

    Plus, even if the numbers of women murdered for their gender is going up (which is obviously horrible and inexcusable), that number still has a long way to go before it even approaches the much higher number of men who are already being killed every year. Like, of course it's a horrible thing that the number of murdered women is increasing, but I fail to see how that's so much more important than the much higher number of men who are already being killed, but that nobody is doing anything about.

    I mean, the reason for it is the same as it always is - men are seen as disposable by society and therefore issues affecting them are ignored - it just sucks to constantly be inundated with evidence of just how deeply ingrained this misandry is in our society.

  • This but unironically. Please, please stop demonizing men and actually think about them for once.

  • The incredibly tiny proportion of the population who are murderers, I'd assume (less than 1 out of every 10,000 people in the US per year if my math is right).

    Both sets of victims are equally dead, of course, just with a much higher percentage of those dead victims being men, and a much smaller percentage of those dead victims being the ones stories like this always seem to focus on.

  • I betcha ten bucks the number of men violently killed in Australia so far this year is significantly higher, just like it is every year. Weird how I can never find any articles about that though.

  • Thanks!