Focusing? Believe it or not, jail.

Because we can’t have the visually impaired knowing what we say in memes, it’s top secret!

Fingers and toes

It’s like a wear mark on tires

It’s a loaded term that should be replaced with a more nimble definition.

A dog whistle is the name for a loaded term that is used to tag a specific target with a large baggage of information, but in a way where only people who are part of the “in group” can understand the baggage of the word, hence “dog whistle”, only heard by dogs.

In the case of the word “degeneracy”, it’s a vague word that has been often used to attack, among other things, LGBTQ and their allies as well as non-religious people. The term is vague enough that the user can easily weasel their way out of criticism for its usage, but the target audience gets the message loud and clear: “[target] should be attacked for being [thing].”

Another example of such a word would be “woke”.

Eh I’ll stay away from Xitter.

Sunk cost fallacy

GDM won’t be able to launch X11 environments after GNOME 50 is my understanding.

You will have your tor-connected 1024x768 anonymous window and you will like it!

That’s really funny and really sad at the same time.

Most Canadians know all US states, and I’m fairly certain I can match 95% of state postal abbreviations to their corresponding state (save for the ones starting with M, good luck lol). I’d like to see Americans try to put the huge landmass that is Manitoba (MB) on a map 😄

I don’t think I’ve ever been confused between what’s Mexico and what’s USA, and I feel like uneducated racist people may just be going off of the name, like Nevada / Arizona being spanish names and New Mexico referencing Mexico.

ADHD is contagious, like AIDS

/s

Unfortunately, some people still believe this is true, just like some people believe AIDS is contagious by touch: https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/08/17/432541935/belief-that-mental-illness-can-be-contagious-contributes-to-isolation

SOAD’s “Deer Dance” plays in my head a little too often these days.

Oh yeah no it’s a big, fat hint haha

My first thought for some reason was “northern Manitoba” lol

Gotta preach where the choir is.

“Oil tanker spills 60,000 tons of crude into the Pacific after hull biodegrades, more at 6”

Honestly this would most likely work very well as advertising, and generate a lot of free publicity around the unconventionality of it all.

Absolutely, and being repeatedly reminded to get your COVID or measles shots is “positive” propaganda. Herd immunity is objectively a good thing, but any sort of PSA is propaganda. (please get your shots)

It’s like the word “consequence”, people always think consequences are always bad, when you could say “I got rich as a consequence of winning the lottery”, or, re-worded, “I won the lottery, and consequently, I became rich”.

Bref, if you are not immune to positive propaganda, you are also not immune to negative propaganda.

It is definitely propaganda against propaganda, everything is propaganda.

There’s “good” propaganda and “bad” propaganda, and whether you think any propaganda is “good” or "bad’ is propaganda in itself just by sharing such an opinion.

I’m not talking about this website specifically, a lot of sites ask for way too much info.

I just click away when I see a login wall, regardless of requirements. If I really want to read it, I use 12ft.io or similar.

Edit: Here’s a wall-less link: https://archive.ph/mFHH8

I really don’t feel like setting up an alt email address just to read a single article.