Well, now I’m worried for your friend too. I hope you can get a hold of her and she’s all right.

As long as they can identifying that “we win” is the same as “I win,” that’s fine. I’d invite them to join us for cooperative games.

Legit, I think this is why board games are a great activity when getting to know new people. Most people don’t want to play with someone ultra competitive, who’ll either gloat when they win, or flip the board when they lose. If someone’s willing to behave that way over a game, imagine how they’d be over something that’s actually important.

I didn’t reach to find that era - it was referenced from the article, even the snippet at the top of this very page:

But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence.

Then you provided examples that occured within the most recent .1% sliver of humanity’s existence. Anything more recent than ~30,000 BCE is within that .1% time frame. Ergo, Ancient Rome doesn’t count.

flowers advertising themselves to insects and birds advertising their singing abilities to each other.

This is why it’s important to define terms before beginning debates. The advertising people are referencing here is the modern kind targeted at humans in order to manipulate them. To compare that to the symbiotic relationships between flowers and their pollinators, or to animals seeking a mate, (both scenarios that benefit all parties mutually) is a false equivalence.

Anyway, I tried to keep things light-hearted in that last post, to show that I’m not looking to attack anyone. I gave you credit for providing a novel viewpoint, in an effort to build conversation. But I’m getting the impression that you’re not arguing in good faith. If you’d like have a real discussion, cool, I’m in. But if you’re looking for an argument, I recommend you look elsewhere.

The word “new” is a relative term. Humans evolved around 300,000 BCE, and ancient Rome (founded in 753 BCE) is pretty “new” by that metric. You’re not wrong that people found ways to “advertise” to each other throughout recorded history, but when it comes to prehistory (or as the article states, “99.9% of [humanity’s] existence”), life was very different. There can’t have been much to advertise before people developed tradable goods.

With that said, I’m intrigued by your comprehensive interpretation of “advertising.” Now I’m wondering about things that would not have been written down/recorded, like things a town crier might have been incentivized to add to their announcements.

“Hear ye, hear ye! A joust is to be held tomorrow evening in the royal courtyard, in the King’s honor. Sir and Lady Abbington announce the birth of their new son, to be baptized at the Lord’s church this Saturday. In celebration, Mavis the Fishmonger is offering a buy-one-get-one deal on all flounder! Come on down to the market square for fantastic deals on all your seafood goods - just look for the stall with the yellow awning. Get your catch of the day at Mavis’s!”

Depends. Is his name Luigi?

These policies work out for the business as well, especially when the store shares a plaza with a pet supply place.

People bringing their dogs to store A might see store B and want to shop there, too. If store B bans pets, that means people either have to bring their dogs home and come back (which is a pain, and people might not return at all), or leave the dogs in their car (which is dangerous or even illegal.) Smart business people don’t want people leaving without shopping, and people with any sense of decency don’t want dogs left in cars.

So when store B explicitly permits people to bring their pets, people can go straight there from Store A without worry. Customers are happy, dogs are happy, business people are happy, and no pets have to suffer in a locked vehicle.

Wow, the entire thing was over such a petty amount. The plaintiff was only awarded $812.02, and that was for both damages and court fees. So presumably, the price of the refunded tickets would’ve been even less than that. Instead of just paying that (relative) pocket change, Air Canada chose to go to court, where they not only lost, but set a precedent that holds businesses responsible for their AI’s accuracy in the future.

Such a beautiful story :')

For extra peace of mind, OP can consider getting a TDS (“Total Dissolved Solids”) meter. My boyfriend got one and uses it to figure out when we need to change water filters.

The revolution will not be televised.

I feel the same way, but about places that sell coffee having an obligation to provide a public bathroom.

Glares angrily at 7-11

there is NO protocol.

Weren’t you just arguing that there is protocol that would prevent Trump from overreaching his authority?

That’s the “protocol” I’m hoping will be followed - the legal framework that would prevent such fuckery.

At the same time, I expect that those currently in charge of the U.S. see the law not as a barrier, but as an inconvenience.

There are a lot of things happening right now that a younger-me would have thought was “straight up nonsense” and “impossible.”

I want to believe that proper protocol will be followed, but I also don’t believe there are limits to what the current GOP would try.

I don’t know about OP. I went to a public school on the eastern seaboard and we certainly weren’t taught “Spain Spanish.” The pronunciations and pronouns we were taught would’ve been very different if that were the case.

If any specific dialect was taught in those classrooms, it would’ve been because a teacher spoke that dialect natively. All of our teachers were either non-native Spanish speakers, or from somewhere in Central or South America. Maybe OP had teachers from Europe?

If there were regional differences for vocabulary, we were told about them. For example, for the English word “bus,” we were taught that “autobus,” “guagua,” and “camion” all work but in different countries/regions. To be clear, we weren’t expected to remember all the variations, but we were informed that they exist.

Excellent comment and very informative!

Just a quick note on the last sentence: 1 yard = 3 feet, which means a yard is approximately one meter, not 100m.

If it’s a legitimate fight, the male body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down. /s

It doesn’t need to be called the same thing.

I’m also not sure if it matters, but Troll X and Two X Chromosomes were very different subs. Troll X was more of a spin-off, and was never strictly for XX women - it was trans-inclusive by default. That’s what I’m hoping for here too.

Back when I used Reddit, one of my favorite subs was TrollX. If we had a sub with that spirit, it would be a good start.

Are there secret communities on Lemmy? Not that secret communities should be a default, but I was invited to a secret sub on Reddit years ago that was all women. It was a true safe space from harrassment, where we could talk about feminine things that we knew wouldn’t gain traction in main subs. I have no idea how it started, but I knew that users who were invited to join had previously been vetted by the sub’s mods - they saw that I’d made feminist posts and multiple comments about being a woman, and didn’t go around picking fights. It was like a background check.

I don’t believe there is any one solution, but starting with dedicated communities (in the spirit of TrollX), with mods that smack down misogyny and (actual) trolls, sounds like the best way to start.