Alternatively, instead of saying “Thank you” end every interaction with “Fuck you” to cost them just as much.

Will the US comply with EU regulation?

Be very careful with mutual funds in this climate. Most are heavily weighted towards the Mag7 which include some of the most massively overinflated stocks.

I moved my stocks into non-US bonds and GICs when the first round of tariffs against us (Canada) happened. At this point I think it’d be a terrible idea to jump ship because you’ll realize that loss.

To be fair to two of those people with something i learned as a Vermonter there is no idiot like a New Hampshire idiot.

Not the hyphen specifically - just a distinct symbol for contractions.

Ah, you mean imported Hákarl from Iceland?

You mean Greenlanders don’t want to invite a fucker that’s trying to colonize them in for a spot of tea? Color me surprised.

Maybe they could try bribing homeless people with food again?

Is Bolsonaro still hiding out in Florida or did he return to Brazil?

So you’re of the opinion that somehow by making five hundred austerity cuts saving two million dollars each the GOP will shave a trillion from the budget? Is Trump going to increase or decrease the deficit in your mind?

The democrats are fiscally conservative. The GOP believes in budget unbalancing tax cuts and are fiscally liberal.

I assume they vote liberal or are uncomfortable being seen as the hateful sack of shit they are.

If we’re talking America the parties align like this:

• Democrat: Socially moderate, fiscally conservative
• Republican: Socially regressive, fiscally liberal

It’s likely they’ve done something like enter every email he ever received into evidence just to fuck with the defense.

I’d be cool with that - I don’t care how we mark contractions just as long as we stop reusing apostrophes for it.

Eh - I thought dash was a pretty reasonable symbol for “There’s a contraction here” I don’t really care about the actual symbol as long as we stop using the same symbol for contractions and possessives. In my sample It-s would currently be written It's and the it's (a possessive) would be its if that’s what you’re asking.

Possessives always get an apostrophe outside of weird exceptions where they clash with contractions. I’m proposing we fix that. Also - let’s bring back mass possessions like “At the bake sale Moms’ baked goods are always delicious”

Sure, Yale boy - I’m certain you really had to struggle to feed your family in your teens.

The inconsistency of apostrophe usage in English for possessives and contractions. If it was instead written…

It-s a wonderful day out today, take your phone but turn off it’s data so you can soak up the clear blue skies.

It’d be so much fucking easier and my OCD would be satiated.

It’s always a bit reassuring to see that even in private the assholes are actually just assholes and it isn’t an act they put on for the political stage. None of these fuckers are redeemable.

Nah, let them come… and then don’t let them leave.

I agree that the N-word is far worse - I didn’t mean to equate them but to use it as a point of comparison. The really fucking hateful and widespread usages of the n-word mostly date back to the 70s - it’s now used almost exclusively by badge wearing racists… so it has had about fifty years of pop culture non-hateful uses but is still clearly unacceptable.

The R-word was seeing widespread usage a mere twenty years ago - it’s still part of the active memory of millennials and older.

An interesting comparison might be gypsy (I type it out only because I can’t think of a clear way to abbreviate it) which is seen as an unacceptable slur (especially in the verb form) which had fallen out of social use in the 50s - even that word (though it is less openly hateful) is still pretty unacceptable.

It’s a similar story for other less common racial slurs - once a word becomes such a hateful slur it seems like the most common social response is to just abandon it with reclamation being a rarity and confined to the in group in every case I can think of (the n-word and the f-word both have gained some usage within their communities but it isn’t universal… I have an extremely negative memory of the f-word which makes me uncomfortable even when people I trust use it).