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While it's true that mandatory identity verification will inevitably be leaked on a massive scale, the thing you need to understand when framing these arguments is that a lot of the folks in favour of such measures don't see that as a bad thing. Full de-anonymisation of the Internet is their explicit goal. Like, the actual objective here is for everyone to have a public record of everything they say and do – online or otherwise – linked to their government ID. The universal panopticon is the good ending as far as these people are concerned.

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Every Republican voted for gerrymandering.

Never forget their intentions.

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Texas GOP are gerrymandering House seats to help Republicans steal the 2026 midterms.

Texas Democrats have left the state to stop the process.

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hey bro can i ask you a question that will reveal a deep and fundamental gap in my knowledge of the world

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Getting thiiiiiiis close to bringing back One Drop Rules.

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Went back to the book I'm currently reading, and in this very chapter I'm currently reading (less than fifteen minutes after making this post), a teasing sibling says "A and J are going camping this weekend!", when they know full well that they'll be staying in a cabin with electricity and running water. Now, yes, that is a mischievous younger sibling deliberately misrepresenting the situation, but it still stuck out to me as another usage variation documenting the lexical drift, so... (Since I'm using my fancy linguistics vocab here, I suppose I should also report on where I found said usage case. Harlequin romance novel "Rivalry at Play" by Nadine Gonzalez, ch 7).

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I actually do agree overall, but I also have heard of people who refer to going to live at a camp as camping.

It's an understandable lexical drift - let's say you're staying at a camp ground that has a rustic cabin, some people living in an RV, and a few people living out of tents. You're all at camp together.

Maybe one day you hike a long way and sleep in a tent overnight before hiking back, so you really have done some actual camping.

When you're back at school/work and reporting on what you did over the summer, and show pictures of the cabin you stayed in? It's not unreasonable for people who did not grow up doing recreational survival training to think that going to a camp = camping.

To anyone who does know their recreational survival training at all, camp does not equal camping. But I see why people who haven't participated (or been made to participate) in said hobby wouldn't know the difference.

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Wealth hoarding needs to be recognized as a disease that harms both the individual's own mental health (constantly feeling like everyone's trying to take advantage of them, causing isolation from society and depression) and seriously undermines the general well-being of society. Easiest way to avoid the diagnosis is to pay your taxes and shut up about how unhappy you are that some of your wealth might be going to people you don't consider deserving of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

i hate when rich people condescend with the whole 'money can't buy happiness' argument like listen. just because buying your fourth car didn't fill the void in your deluded disconnected-from-reality life doesn't mean not having to worry about food/ bills/medicine wouldn't greatly improve the mental health of literally everyone else on the planet

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let's run around the kitchen with mama

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I think the English language is hindering the actual debate here - because camping can mean living rough in the woods, or it can mean participating in a temporary, somewhat rustic, living situation. That is, there's a difference between "we are camping overnight" and "yeah, we'll be camping this summer". And like, kids who go to summer camp, and/or adults/families who rent a cabin on a camping ground to spend two weeks together in nature... the word "camping" means that, too. In Swedish, we use "tälta" (lit. tent-ing, which, I know tenting means something different in English, not the point) to describe taking temporary shelter in the woods (normally with a tent or self-built survival shelter), and "kampa" for any kind of camp-style situation, whether in a tent, RV, caravan, or camp housing). Also, as a side note... cots do include fold-out cots, don't they? Because I've known plenty of people who've brought that style of bed to sleep in a tent.

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kids deserve so much more respect and it turns out that saying that is a great way to locate the horrible people in any community <3

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one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

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Uk media reporting on the OSA:

Reality:

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hey wait! i know you! we used to be chained next to each other in the cave! wow, so good to see you, how are ya? man. remember how we used to talk about the shadows on the wall together. gosh that was a long time ago. but hey. sure is one heck of a sun out here, right? it's good to see you.