orcrist

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[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

What a terrible headline. All of us? No. Next.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Ah, classic sophistry. If you omit the actor, you can draw a bad conclusion and pretend you didn't know it was a bad one. But maybe I'm mistaken and you actually don't know the answer to your question. Why don't you read the article? It answers it.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Did you just use some made-up term, so that you could deflect from the real issue? In reality, being trans is not a health problem. I know you want to pretend it is one, so that you can say it's similar to asthma, but you're wrong.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lots of people are prescribed pills for lots of things. What the hell does that have to do with anything? You know it doesn't.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My friend, anyone who watches the news on an occasional basis knows that you're lying, and that you know you're lying. I'm not sure why you're wasting our time, or yours.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

We all know who the real criminals are. The people in uniforms with badges and guns, who love to target minorities, who lie every day of their lives, under oath and on the stand, and pretend they're not the bad guys because it was their coworker who did the horrible action, not them, they only stood by and watched.

Of course any death is sad. My heart goes out to both families. Also, if you want the problem to be solved, you start by locking up the dirty pigs, not by accusing the general public of ... checks notes ... understanding the current state of reality.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

When the cops back the blue, when they lie and cheat to cover up their coworkers' misdeeds, they all become targets...

And look, my friend, this is old news. We have said for decades that either cops regulate themselves or they will be regulated by the people. Even now, this message is still falling on deaf ears.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

You can define it that way, but the problem is that the authors of the article didn't give a definition. For example, I think they think the term means to do what's in your job description and contract. And they think that workers should be going above and beyond that. But if they were forced to spell it out, then people would ask why companies don't change the job description or contract, because obviously it's ridiculous to ask people to do what you didn't ask them to do.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"kills" ... This is still occurring, let's use the present tense.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Exactly. Workers are doing their jobs! Gasp!

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 92 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Holy f***, God forbid making settings menus that actually get you to where you want to go, definitely wouldn't want to do that, much better to AI.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

If you really want the whole thing to end, just confess. Say that you're the one who did it, then they can lock you up, you won't even need a trial.

What kind of human being would wish that a man gets killed for a crime he didn't even commit? That's really sad, and for you to blame it on your boredom, that's just horrible.

 

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Here's Ozzy Man's critical analysis of Johnny Howard the Prime Minister buying back guns and crushin' them ay. It may have some relevance to current American events.

 

WINDER, GA—In the hours following a violent rampage in Georgia in which a lone attacker killed at least four individuals and injured nine others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place...

 

Can you think of any titles from real journal articles or essays that are eye-catching?

I'm writing a document for high school students taking an English writing class, and rather than create my own examples, why not use real ones? Several of my students have expressed frustration, and I have some guidelines and brainstorming tools, but what I don't have are two dozen neat examples.

 

OSAKA – An American man known for streaming provocative videos has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a construction site in Osaka, police said Friday.

Ramsey Khalid Ismael, 23, known as "Johnny Somali" on YouTube, was arrested with another American, Jeremiah Dwane Branch, 24, who says he is a university student, according to police.

Ismael's videos include those in which he makes light of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and makes racist comments about Japanese people.

The two men allegedly made an unauthorized entry into a hotel construction site in Osaka's Chuo Ward on Aug. 30 with Branch filming a masked Ismael at the scene, according to the police.

They have told police they will not speak until they see lawyers, police said.

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