It’s not the dick, it’s the cowardice we disparage.

I knew it!
Thanks amigo/a

I mean, on the one hand, no. It’s not even slang, it’s just a pathetic phenomenon where the users feel forced into using words they don’t want to, even though they aren’t being forced but they cowardishly still do it for fear of actual censorship. But then, on the other hand, my generation’s youth slang includes things like douchecanoe and heckin and live, laugh, love, so I don’t feel in a superior enough position to judge gen z on theirs.

Oh shit! Mexico is indeed pretty blameless, except for the apparent heinous crime of existing next to the USA.
Tell me though, is it true that everything is in sepia there? I only have US-made movies and TV to go off, so of course I’m assuming that’s 100% accurate. Is it still sepia at night? If you fly into Mexico does it flick to sepia instantly or is it more like a slow transition that you hardly notice? Who pays for all the yellow pigment?

dozen countries like my own

I’m gonna guess… Portugal! I can’t think of anything they’ve done -recently- that’s overtly imperialistic? Ireland?
You’d best not be British, German, French, Italian, Romanian, Czech, Hungarian, Austrian, Polish or Israeli, though.

That’s a good point actually. An extra level of ridiculousness and hypocrisy to this trend of self censorship.
You know what worries me though? It was about 2008ish when I first heard someone say “lol” verbally as a response to a witty comment, and it was a really weird moment for me. She didn’t laugh, she smiled and said “lol”, because she was so used to speaking online. Now it’s pretty normal to hear that. I even do it without realising it.
What worries me is that these awful censorship words will creep into spoken English and people will start saying then out loud. I think I will unalive a little inside when that happens.

It’þ bigoted if you aþk me. Not my fault I have a þpeech impediment.

No way is reality itself trolling me this hard.

The great thing about family is you get to talk to them. If they’re so upset about who you voted for, maybe listen to why it upsets them so much, and take the time to patiently explain what led you to that choice. Some members of my family voted for things I vehemently disagree with and we have never properly fallen out over it. In fact, I’ve changed a few minds because I am politically engaged and can usually answer their questions satisfactorily.
If, however, they were to vote for a fascist because they are fascist, then I would cut them off. But not because of their vote. Because of their fascism. Fortunately my family are not like that.

Yeah the guy has just listened to Clarke/Baxter’s Sunstorm on audiobook and “had a great idea”, I reckon.

Love to see it

Yes it is, paracetamol and acetominophen are alternative names for the molecule N-acetyl-para-aminophenol.
Tylenol, Panadol, Doliprane etc. are brand names.

AKA: paracetamol

You might be interested to learn about the Private Eye, a magazine which does a better job than the Grauniad in mostl respects.

New Solar System Discovered Four Feet From Earth

I feel you’ve missed a minimum of two very important points here. Person 1 actually shared a link showing that treatment of 'flu-induced fever prolonged the infection (rather than attempted to prove quackery, or failed to affirm the negative). Then it was argued that feeling better is not a helpful way of measuring effectiveness of treatment.
Pov You contract gangrene in the tropics, far from a hospital.
Your best chance of survival is still to bite on this wood while I cut off your leg. It’s not going to make you feel better, but you might just live.
Would you still prefer the analgesics?

IDLES

The word is arrogant:-

‘having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities.’

I choose not to. I can choose to be hopeful for the future without being unrealistic. I can see intrinsic value in human life and the human experience even knowing that every single one of us will die at some point, some peacefully, some during suffering. The moment of death doesn’t have to define one’s life. Even a baby who lives for six hours has spent infinitely more time living than dying. Would you be so nihilistic as to erase that life, just because it was short?

Your philosophy is valid; it’s not necessarily correct.
Starting from the assumption that it is denies you the opportunity to see things from a different perspective.

It’s worth asking your local library. My library card gives me read-only access to every ISO standard I’ve ever needed.

There’s also the Estonian standards institute which offers the same standards for much much cheaper.