https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rCPPCQrzxWg

Jumping Jimminy! One of my college English lit courses spent 4 full weeks on Donne. It was all his religious poems, certainly not this.

I’m done with the project requiring me to keep Windows. But going back to Linux after 15 years is like starting new. Ik mint was always considered one of the best for novices. Any others?

I’m doing this now. For Mr/Ms fix it myself, I don’t find much elsewhere. I hope that changes.

Tbh I figured they have bots crawling social media to find out what people are using to avoid their annoying, intrusive, abusive practices and use that to get ever more obnoxious.

We’re the ones that seeded and birthed it.

Nah, that’s our collective karma for not caring for our habitat.

Buckle up, Bible Belt. It’s going to be wild.

That is because it’s beneficial to their bottom line.

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/academic-skills-kit/study-skills/critical-thinking/using-evidence-to-support-your-argument/

🫡 Really

Common knowledge You don’t have to back up absolutely everything you say with evidence (or you’d soon run out of wordcount to advance your own point properly!). Some things are common knowledge. That could mean that a fact is just generally known by everyone, and not disputed or in doubt. This could include:

•facts such as London is the capital of the United Kingdom •well documented dates such as the start of the First World War in 1914 •H20 being the chemical formula for water •things which everyone knows from their lived experience, such as the sky is blue.

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Unless it’s common knowledge or easily sourced.

Let it go. Move on to those more receptive.

I remember when one conservative parent was absolutely furious with GW Bush over invading Iraq. Then they were all in MAGA for nine years. They’ve finally disavowed that one, but I don’t know how much time they have to come further left, or how the trajectory may shift. We actually had a pleasant few days together, with each of us clenching our teeth and walking away a few times, but that’s any relationship. Some things we (everyone) feel strongly about really aren’t worth that argument. In fact, a lot of them.

“If it doesn’t apply, let it fly.” “Hit dogs holler.”

Oh? I noticed that issue last couple of days using invidious on librewolf, and thought it was YT doing invidious shenanigans again.

Yes, that bathroom is probably more area than most people’s current total livable space.

Ah yes, because people with dirty jobs and aching backs are the problem, not industries.

Maybe. I’m just so used to it on another instance by moderators who ever ban for “civility”, it doesn’t even phase me. Maybe read past the words to the meaning. And don’t wander into any irc channels, if that causes you offense.

Literally your first response to me in this entire thread was uncivil condescension.

Can you please copy and paste what bit seems so to you?