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  • It's a rerun. The episode still exists, they just didn't want to run an episode making fun of a guy who just died. I don't have anything nice to say about Charlie Kirk, but I don't think it's cowardly to decide not to shit on the man while his body is still warm. They didn't run a tribute or a moment of silence instead. They just switched out the rerun.

  • That's not an argument. You're just being insulting and belligerent. Acronyms are not pronounced based on their constituent words. You need to let that go, because it makes you the asshole.

    There are two factors that determine how words are pronounced in English, and this is precisely true of every fucking word in the language. There's the original pronunciation, and then there's common usage. If English borrows a word from another language, like "bruschetta," there's the original pronunciation "brooskett" and then there's the American pronunciation "brooshetta" because fuck all that. Say either one and you'll be understood, and you'll have spoken English. Neither is "wrong" because people know you want some expensive salsa on tiny toast.

    It's the same with gif. There was the original pronunciation, and then basically nobody said the word out loud for 20 years because only nerds cared about the extension format wars. Then the internet brought memes to your grandmother, and suddenly everyone was sharing dancing_baby.gif and hardly anyone knew how to say it. People actively avoided saying the word because they didn't want to sound stupid.

    Then one day, some extra stupid people decided that they had enough of that bullshit, and they would not be made to feel stupid for not knowing how to pronounce a word. They shouldn't have felt stupid, because again, English doesn't work that way, but at that time the nerds were strutting around like they had invented confidence. Technical pronunciations were like a geek shibboleth that signaled you had in fact RTFM, and because pendulums swing, techies were bullying people online about it.

    But I did call them stupid people, because they were stupid. Not because they didn't know how to pronounce a word, but because they chose obstinate ignorance over truth. There was a common, original pronunciation for gif, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. The fact that graphics is pronounced with a hard g doesn't matter in the slightest, because that's not a rule that ever existed before someone got mad about gifs. The only thing worse than a shitbag who bullies you for being wrong about something is a shitbag who bullies you for being right about something.

    Talk how you like. This is, for now, a free world. English evolves, and life is too short to spend your days arguing with an amateur linguist online, because this guy has two thumbs and will absolutely continue this conversation until you regret engaging in it. Be free. Your hard on for the hard g is a stone you carry around for no one, and all you have to do is set it down.

  • No, I'm sorry, the answe is "profit." The US has a lot of natural gas, and the people who force it out of the ground bought enough politicians to build pipelines everywherr so we could sell gas to more people. Electric and heat pumps are far more efficient, but the cost per btu of heat is so cheap for natural gas that it doesn't make sense to switch to electric even when the energy costs are low, and the cost to install a heatpump or geothermal might reduce monthly costs, but it would be decades before it pays for itself. Most people don't expect to live in a house long enough to reap the benefits of more efficient investments.

  • Not one of those people ever did anything worth a damn. They produced no value, created nothing novel, built nothing, contributed nothing, or earned a fair wage for honest work. Each of them was born with more money than they could spend in a lifetime, and they will use that leverage to grow their fortunes.

    Humanity will continue to aupport their oppulence at the cost of our own joy and liberty. Billionaires are parasites.

  • "Effective" is a relative term. Going meatless won't fix the underlying problems that allowed factory farming to destroy the world. Why aren't electric cars mandated? Why do we pipe natural gas into homes? The same shortsighted, profit-motivated decision processes will still exist even if we make better personal choices.

  • The difference between telling a funny joke and being funny is whether you ask if they are koalified to make such distinctions.

    My friend and I once met a koala holding a little plaquard saying "Bear X-ing" and an arrow pointing to herself. My friend said "She's not a bear!" and I replied that he should look again at ursine.

  • There is no wrong. English doesn't have wrong pronunciations. You're either understood or you aren't. There's the original pronunciation, and there's the new pronunciation. Both are used, so neither is wrong.

  • I would say that there's a lot of work to do in general. Protest voting is like any protest. It's disruption to draw attention to a problem. It doesn't solve problems, it isn't even an attempt to solve a problem. Protest is the last step before violence, and most people aren't willing to go any further.

    The fact that people are willing to protest vote is everybody's problem. You can't say the protesters are wrong, or their methods are wrong, or that they don't have valid concerns.