EleventhHour

Damn you, you beat me to it

I read this in the voice of Lieutenant Commander Data

I always upvote the major

For instance, I dance a lot. I have even started ballet dancing. And in the past I had an eating disorder. Now I know this may sound a kind of bigoted or stereotypical. But I don’t mean it that way, this is purely based on statistics.

these things do make not a person LGBTQ+

However I feel in no way that I am in the wrong body. I like being a man, I like the idea of masculinity

this seems to be pretty much the qualifying criterion, and, to this, I’d ay no, you’re (very probably) not trans.

But it makes me “worried” if I do end up tran

people are born LGBTQ+ and typically know it all their lives. From you descriptions, it seems like you might just be Bi. Enjoying “non-masculine” activities doesn’t really mean anything in and of itself. Being LGBTQ+ isn’t something one “ends up as”-- it’s something we always have been.

when I already have a wife and children

and so what? sure, there may be some adjustments for them to make, but, unless they’re transphobes, it shouldn’t be a problem.

Before Correl bought WordPerfect and made it usable!

WordPerfect was a nightmare to use, and I’m very glad that it’s dead.

It can also reduce stress

Oh. I thought I’d heard him say that… I guess I misheard?

He and his brother started run the channel now, but they didn’t start it.

Edit: fixed

Now no person is going to directly report the drug money, it will be reported via a front company where cash transactions are normal and expected.

aka money laundering

while it’s probably true that the IRS is more interested in you paying your taxes than prosecuting you because that income may have been “illegitimate,” that doesn’t mean that other agencies might not be interested in the information you provide to the IRS. The FBI/DEA/DHS could easily get a hold of those records and use them to pursue an investigation.

and, yes, your tax returns can be used as evidence in court.

this is why money laundering (obfuscating the origin of illegitimate earnings to make them appear legitimate, esp for tax purposes) is such a lucrative trade.

my advice: never volunteer information which could later be used against you.

I believe what they were separating was Fascist leaders versus fascist followers.

Now you’re equivocating and using personal insults.

And there were “experts” who said that COVID vaccine causes autism.

Facts make one correct. Not authority.

Wrong. Authority is not what makes an argument correct— facts are. And those exist regardless of any claimed authority— therefore, to argue that one’s authority makes them correct is a fallacy, for it is facts and evidence, not authority, from which truth is derived.

If Neil Degrasse Tyson said something that’s incorrect and then claimed he was correct simply because he was a physicist does not make him correct.

Thanks for playing!

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Nope, as I explained in my other comment, it’s standard usage.

you explained more or less what i did, except the whole “using the grammar and spelling of a 3 year-old is valid because language is fluid!” BS argument i outright reject–

and your claims of being an English teacher? it bears no weight here.

Argument from authority

An argument from authority (argumentum ab auctoritate), also called an appeal to authority, or argumentum ad verecundiam, is a form of argument in which the opinion of an influential figure is used as evidence to support an argument.[1]

The argument from authority is a logical fallacy,[2] and obtaining knowledge in this way is fallible.[3][4]

so, this comment…

In English, we often use the definite article when speaking in general about a specific activity or action that involves a non-specific object. E.g. “go to the bathroom” or “catch the bus”, or “read the newspaper”. It’s not poor form at all.

and if you can’t comprehend that this is simply another way of explaining what i did, then i certainly question your claims of being an English teacher.

“You have something on your face; go take a look in the mirror” is just as grammatically correct in English

yes, but only if you’re referring to a specific mirror. so, “go look in the mirror” would be appropriate if you’re also indicating to/pointing at a mirror, or there’s been a specific mirror under discussion already (or if the audience already knew there was only one mirror they could be referring to.)

also, it’s not technically a grammatical error, but one of poor style/form.

edit: also, i’m not a fan of the “using the grammar and spelling of a 3 year-old is valid because language is fluid!” argument. bad grammar and poor style/form are just that. just because doing so may be popular doesn’t magically make it “valid”. to me, that whole argument reeks of, “I’m not wrong for being ignorant, you’re wrong for pointing out my mistake-- so it’s magically not a mistake anymore so I can avoid acknowledging ever being wrong!”

in my experience, people use both, but in different contexts.

“in the mirror” tends to more often refer to a metaphorical “mirror”, typically when discussing self-reflection

• “I took a look in the mirror and decided to change my ways.”

“in a mirror” tends to refer most often to actual mirrors that exist in reality, not metaphorically

• “I looked into a mirror to fix my eyeliner.”

I’ve seen people use each interchangeably, but i would consider that a common mistake of style and form, not as a common valid usage.

This is referred to as “downcycling”, and isn’t limited to content. It happens with lots of stuff.

It’s actually quite common, and, usually, a good way to extend the life of things rather than just throwing them away.