If I had to take a guess, it’s about perceived tone. Connotation becomes extremely important in online discourse.
Rather than “No. Here is the rest of what I have to say,” I recommend “Nah, here is the rest of what I have to say.”
It’s a lot less forceful, more conversational.
Careful. Confirmation bias makes it exceptionally easy to come up with reasons to disbelieve things that don’t fit what we presume about a topic.
I think it’s fair to say we don’t know the shooter’s motivations for sure. Being confident that the shooter was far right just because his family is seems just as terrible a conclusion to jump to. How many of us have conservative families we disagree with?
I guess they have to change the lyric in The Book of Mormon the Musical again.
Yeah, the vehicle in question definitely screams “PoC” and not “white fucknugget.” /s
My point is the greta derrangement syndrome you only care about the flotilla when she is there and she is not you don't care
It’s not that people don’t care. It’s that people don’t know. That’s my entire point. Media pays more attention because a name people know is involved.
If people aren’t talking about it, other people won’t hear about it. That’s why “famous” people get involved, to bring attention to it.
“Greta derangement syndrome”?
Yuuuuup. And if I’m stuck on my phone, repeatedly opening Voyager, remembering I need to do something, closing it, then opening it again, I can hit play on my audiobook or podcast. Then I get up and go do stuff.
I dunno, have you tried the Reese’s collab?
Same as you guys. You where nowhere to be found when the last one without her tried to break the siege
I’m sorry I, a random dude in the Midwest, didn’t know about a thing happening in the Mediterranean that no one told me about. I’m so ashamed. /s
What exactly is your point?
I think a better connotation would be “lends.” Greta Thunberg lends her name and fame to.
The media would care a lot less about the flotilla if it didn’t have a household name onboard. “Hitches” implies Thunberg is doing it for her own benefit. “Lends” has the opposite implication.
No one said that in 2007.
Halo 3, Assassin’s Creed, The Orange Box (Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Portal), Mass Effect, CoD4:MW, Uncharted, Mario Galaxy, BioShock, Crackdown, The Witcher, Crysis, God of War 2, Metroid Prime 3…
That year was historic.
(But I realize this ruins the joke.)
Honestly? Once you acquire a taste for it, I recommend reading Discworld in publication order. You’ll catch more of the cross-references, more inside jokes, and the books consistently get better and better (until The Embuggerence, which did diminish quality a bit).
But it is quite the undertaking, and not for everyone.
Why not? You didn’t know anyone in college who liked to speak differently sometimes, whether for fun, to be ironic, or to be flowery and “romantic”? People are figuring out who they are in college, some people do stuff other people might consider weird. That type of language doesn’t shock me at all.