mindlesscrollyparrot

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

This feels like an attempt to justify their already pro-reform stance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Since they speak multiple languages, they probably spend quite a lot of time thinking about the subtle differences in meaning between words, so the precise meaning of the word "polyglot" no doubt matters quite a lot to them.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Horse deserves serious praise! How is 'e even gripping that pencil?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Promoting American industry by ~~buying American~~ getting airplanes as gifts from other countries.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

And the taxpayer should subsidize the construction, no doubt.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They also said that they were cancelling lifetime contracts that hadn't been used in 6 months. Hard to see how those could be sinking the company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's the BBC editorial team at work. The letter was signed by 400 artists.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

The bicycles are another thing they're ignoring. If someone wanted to leave the area, why wouldn't they go on their bicycle? It would be faster. Those people didn't want to be in the road, and they wanted to get out of the road in enough of a hurry that they didn't wheel their bicycles to the side.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (7 children)

They spend loads of time labelling people with "taking cover" without ever considering that people take cover when they are being fired on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

They don't want to find themselves committed to 5 years of software updates. It's against company policy to support a product for that long.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The fact that this is being billed as 'a treat for nature lovers' and not 'a sign of how we're destroying the planet' is a big part of the problem.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

It isn't the case that they have to engage in diplomacy to bring him back. They are paying El Salvador to take these prisoners. El Salvador has no reason not to hand him over.

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