It’s not “people vs persons” but “those people vs they”.

Conversationally, “those/these” distances you from the group you are talking about, which is humorously weird when it’s your family you’re talking about.

It’s not the meaning of the words, but habitual (and often fleeting) attribution around them that tripped you up.

PS: “People” are uncountable, “persons” are countable. That’s basically the whole difference between the two plurals. Although it’s rapidly disappearing, as “ten people” won’t raise a single eyebrow in a conversation.

There are actually five people in the picture.

If you know, you know.

You can even set it up for multiple users on both deck and PS5. The tool will help you set up profiles and profile shortcuts too.

Ten and a half. And that’s only if we discount Tuzla island dispute and continuous attempts to take control of politics and economy.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Considering that git doesn’t need federation, and email is the grandfather of federation, sourcehut has a working version of it this very moment.

By only caring of things when they affect you.

How very republican of you.

Occupying a country that size doesn’t take a mere week. So no, it won’t.

Oh yeah, please do imagine there is no such thing as a time zone.

On an ellipsoid!

You’re one link click away from understanding why your message is stupid. Question is whether it’s message alone.

Or Star Control 2 Hyperspace theme.

Did you systemically persecute Indian business owners in Britain, escalating it to ethnic cleansing?

The analogy is historically exact.

Teeth cannot produce enamel. Enamel is not a living tissue and it was produced by cells outside of the tooth in a coral-like manner. In order to grow a new tooth, you need it to be fully surrounded by specialized living tissue for the whole growth cycle.

PS: I honestly expected something like this to come out of bioelectric computation research, but progress seems slower there. Or rather knowledge and techniques in other fields is reaching critical mass, giving us these advances.

So in a choice between arrest and killing innocents, choosing to kill innocents is moral somehow?

I could write a long tirade on the terrifying flaws of this logic, but instead I’ll just share a reminder that barely anyone is the villain of their own story.

Genocide is not a numbers competition. Fucking get lost with that narrative.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide is literally four pages long, with barely 30% fill. It takes less than 10 minutes to read it fully. It takes one minute to get to the part that you directly contradict.

Identification != Authentication

As obvious as this sounds, I’ve learned over the years that most people don’t understand what it means exactly.

Monitor the room temperature.

It’s called Russia Law because it’s literally a Russian law copied verbatim