I mean, yah. That probably falls under the umbrella of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. DEI is good, and we shouldn’t stop using the term just cuz Orange Man upset (IMO).

Fair enough, I learned some things today. I was under the impression that indigenous languages were a lot more normalized than they actually are. I still think that using more indigenous language in everyday stuff is low-key a win, but for it to be commericalized while denying it elsewhere is just a slap in the face.

Enh, it’s at least a little more complicated than that. Native or mestizo people are much more common in Mexico than the US. For example, Nahuatl has somewhere between 1.3 and 1.7 million speakers, mostly in Mexico. This is not counting over a dozen other languages that have hundreds of thousands of speakers apiece (wiki. By comparison, in the entire US there were only about 372,000 people that speak any indigenous language.

Depending on how you want to look at it, this could be just…a normal name, or even a tribute to the Nahuatl community. Or just a cynical attempt to sell more cars by looking inclusive. How many people need to speak a language before it’s ‘normal’, after all? We don’t go asking Italians before we put stuff in Latin. Or the Irish before we sell St Paddy’s Day shirts. Etc.

Anyone think about what they used to do before we started making indelible records of all our social activity? Probably ask you some questions and that’s it. Yet now they think it’s ‘vital’ that they be able to see everything you ever said to your friends? Bullshit it is, they’re just powerhungry petty tyrants.

The chat built into my hospital’s charting software has the ‘thumbs up’ react so you can quickly and easily show that you’ve read it. So for me it just means ‘heard’, ‘roger’, etc.

Martial law generally has legal mechanisms in place to provide some limitations to duration etc.

In other words, it would be an improvement over what is currently happening.

…where do you live that people DON’T have a dishwasher? Everyone house I’ve ever seen in MN has one.

Sooo what, can I murder someone and claim it’s part of my religion?

Just pointing out that your ‘handling your own response’ sure seems to include getting a lot of money from the feds.

No, actually. They should still be vaccinated, they just also need to stop overcrowding them in deeply unsanitary and hellish conditions.

Ideally, of course, you would just stop raising them entirely as people transition to less destructive and unethical foods.

Rent free.

That amendment doesn’t nullify shit. It’s waffle language. When the court cases eventually come up over this, judges will shrug and say that it doesn’t clearly forbid it, so it’s fine. Mark my words.

No? If I ACTUALLY wanted to ride out through some sort of apocalypse, a bunker ain’t gonna cut it. I would bankroll and actively participate in a fully self-sustaining off-the-grid community. Rich people always forget the second part, probably because they are psychopaths. Remember that article where they were asking about putting shock collars on their bunker security guys? If they literally just got beers with them once a week, they’d probably shoot all the migrants you ask them to. It’s an irony that they consider their time ‘too valuable’ for that, as it turns out that the one thing you can’t buy is a sense of community.

Of course, I would endeavor to not own several billion dollars of stolen property in the first place, but different strokes.

Yes, because rioting definitely never has any sort of effect on the economy.

T_T

As a 5’6" man…is 5’8" supposed to be short or something 0_0

Wow, it’s almost like if you routinely put people in authority over others, someone will misuse it. Huh. I wonder if anyone had maybe thought about that before.

Infections do not have have the ability to choose to not damage their host. People do have that choice, and many make it.

You are, I think, making a mistake that many people do, in thinking humans should have zero impact on the environment. This is nonsense. Does any other animal have zero impact on the environment? Beavers and wild boars can change entire watersheds! An ecologically aware future is not one where humanity has disappeared, merely one where we have consciously limited our effects on it. Ask a virus to do that.

Oh see, I just back them up to my desktop. Where they sit. Just in case. I don’t have a problem, I swear.