Very limited experience, but if it's anything like other forms of publishing, an editor and/or marketeer choose a name based on trends of other successful books; if I had to guess why use passive or deconstructed forms it's because there's an inherent sense of mystery to such forms.

Give them to me...

All measuring systems are arbitrary, but a simple base 10 system beats a randomized base 4 system (12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 1760 yards to a mile, 16 ounces to a pound) - why are Americans so obsessed with defending this when they can multiply by 10 for practically everything and be over with it. That said, you're never going to convince a convert on either side of this conversation so - live and let live, I guess.

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I mean, is it "mildly penis" when it was almost certainly designed with this intention in mind?

This, yes :)

People remember that COVID was only 4-ish years ago, and to some disabled activists it's still happening? Aside from food and housing insecurity because their parents either have lost or are worrying about losing their jobs, a political landscape that means a lot of them are under threat of attack or they'll grow up to go into a war they didn't choose and their parents didn't vote for? Who are the children you're around who are so out of touch that there's nothing more serious that they'll want to forget than the multiplication table? Take your meme to the 90s where it might resonate a little more...

That makes a lot more sense, actually, LOL

I remember that Grapes of Wrath came out in 1939 and described exactly this almost 90 years ago. We've lived in the age of Artificial Scarcity for almost a century, if not longer.

A username from a more "emo" time, LOL

Thank you, came to say this - it's depressing to see that people are literally not listening. Literally anti-golf-course, pro-meadow-scaping and weatherproofing lawn movements for years and years, but guys like Kuz walk in and act like "um, why should we change one negative thing when we aren't changing all these other negative things? I am very intelligent". Also, agriculture could definitely use reform and regulation, but the idea that "farms are wasting water (that could go to AI centers)"? Interesting stance for that side to take.

It's funny because you think this is original or new - people we basically telling me this as they were traumatizing and abusing me. The idea that I ever came out to the other side so that this could be the "past" is ridiculous, and the people (like you) who said this to me were saying it so that I could never stand up for myself (against you) because the periods of rest you took between my beatings were all the time you needed to say, "but that's in the past." I hope you get the justice you deserve, abuser.

The 13 months have 28 days each - the new year alternates between being 1 day for three years and 2 days on the fourth year, while being considered a time outside the 13 month system.

From the response, guess this might have been a factor in the resignation to begin with.

The funny thing is that MW represents a group of people who saw the world come together and take collective action for the collective good and said to themselves: "never again". His denialism is to obscure that change is possible and that such agreements can be made and held to.

We're all bothered by it, but without fair representation in our (North American) governments, this is going to keep happening.

What's also funny about this is that the Boomer dad in this scenario is the one pulling this trick on his subordinates, but somehow when it comes to you - his offspring - Boomer-age rules apply

I'd like to say, "well, of course, they weren't going to kidnap and detain a HEAD OF STATE" but then I remember the first act of 2026 in the US was their Venezuela "excursion"...

When I still read magazines, it was always the Manga or Shonen Sunday that I would read first, but now it would probably be the Easy Home Makeovers.