You go ahead and enjoy your wine, I promise I won't respond to any further comments on this post as I find it disappointing that a community based around calling out stupidity can't discuss some light hearted pushback against the logic in the post. Have a great Sunday as well!
Blaidd
joined 2 years ago
I don't consider my comments combative at all. Tone is hard to read through text, perhaps my tone is just too relaxed and overly familiar? My questions are light hearted and intended to foster discussion. Questions are better for inviting discussion than statements, in my opinion.
I'm not being rude or argumentative, I'm just relaxing on a Saturday morning and communicating by asking questions. Are questions rude and argumentative?
When did anyone, including the guy screenshotted, say anything about the first dictionary?
He wrote the dictionary
And?
edit: I think this is probably the question that came across as combative, so I apologize. I would point out that the American in the screenshot did not say America wrote the first dictionary, just the dictionary, and the screenshot cuts out all context to what was being replied to so do we know it's incorrect? In America, America wrote the dictionary, and this is a world instance. (I actually would not use the word "America" here, but rather "the US", but I am matching the phrasing in the post title that America wrote the dictionary)
Everybody is an individual. There's a woman whose nose is so sensitive that she can smell diseases on clothes. Your eyes just might be more sensitive to blue light than the average.
There's also the fact that US media wants to show this bad stuff because it helps keep people afraid of the world around them and makes them easier to manipulate.
When you say you're old, how old do you actually mean? I'm in my mid 30s and I feel exactly the same way.
If I'm understanding correctly, you're saying you don't see the trend of office real estate losing value? This might be a problem mostly for the US, but Manhattan real estate is definitely struggling. There's also the company WeWork, which is basically AirBnB for office spaces, which is now on the brink of collapse.. WeWork had bought up so much office space for renting out that US banks are legit concerned over what happens if the business fails.