@idiomaddict - eviltoast
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  • However, the fact-checking website Snopes said the image showed protests in Los Angeles following the death of George Floyd in May 2020.

    The governor’s office wrote on X on Friday: “HUGE DEVELOPMENT: An official Department of Defense account is spreading fake images—from old protests—to justify Trump’s illegal militarization of Los Angeles. This isn’t just disinformation. It’s a propaganda campaign from the Pentagon.”

    This is the next paragraph, I think the “however” refers to the posting, not newsoms reaction to it. Ultimately, old pictures are real and their use is deceitful. Calling them fake is adequate in my book, but not entirely accurate.


  • That’s so interesting! I wonder how it works in Switzerland now, and if there’s a shift between franco- and germanophone areas or if they just split the difference/let Italian or romansh dictate formality.

    You’re in your thirties, that’s a complete adult (as am I, even if it doesn’t always feel it). Do you think you’d be offended by someone using tu without knowing you? Or would it feel more like they’re hitting on you/trying to build rapport to sell you something?







  • It was combative because the OC called the recipient unworthy and you replied that it was because they didn’t understand things that most people who can read at a third grade level do.

    That’s messed up, and I was intending to point out that that’s the implication of your comment so you could rephrase it if it was unintended.

    Some people don’t seek to understand, but this person’s asking multiple questions to figure out what this means, and then wants to talk verbally because they’re not getting it via text. I don’t see a reason to suspect they’re not looking to understand.




  • Even for customers in their 20s? I’m in Germany and some youngish people actually get annoyed when I use the formal you with them. I would prefer they get annoyed in that direction, so I keep doing it (unless they appear to be at least a decade younger than me or I feel like I actually know them well enough to be informal- my metric is whether I’d feel comfortable making a genuine joke vs. a customer service joke with them), but it’s definitely not helping with any tips.




  • I also don’t use TikTok and I’m exactly the wrong age to know anything about teenagers/young adults, but it’s my understanding that its base outside of the US means that it isn’t (as) subject to American social-political pressure. Therefore people were exposed to more pro-Palestinian content through TikTok than instagram/facebook, youtube, or reddit, and TikTok’s relative popularity with gen z contributed to the popularity of BDS across college campuses in the US.

    I don’t know if that’s been substantiated by much actual research though.