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Skate shops. Skateboard companies make a lot of cool stickers.

Did you read the article? It’s about money and risk because of the war. It isn’t some altruistic thing because they care about people’s lives.

Yeah, I was just more commenting on their use of the “hill to die on” thing than the quality or value of their argument. Like there wasn’t anything I was doing to indicate it was a hill I was willing to die on, certainly not any more than they were.

That said, it wasn’t just downvoting, several other people also jumped in to argue with them, and honestly they just seemed to be acting antagonistic for no reason.

And while downvotes aren’t always an indicator of a weak argument, they certainly can be.

So weird, someone just told me I was willing to die on a hill for my opinion when they were getting downvoted to oblivion for their opinion, and holding to it.

I.e., figuratively, they were on their hill taking shots from all sides, unwilling to yield, and yelling down to me - with my similarly opinioned compatriots - that I was willing to die on my hill. It was so bizarre and I was thinking about how they didn’t understand the meaning of the phrase, and then I came across this post.

This may not be the case here, but idioms like this can sound particularly weird when they’re in a language that isn’t your first language. This one doesn’t sound weird to me except when used in the wrong way lol.

So just to be clear, the phrase isn’t just about having differing opinions, nor actually putting your life on the line. It is about steadfastly holding to an unpopular (currently, or in the immediate context) opinion in the face of adversity. The more unpopular it is, the bigger the hill it seems to be, with fewer people defending it. In the military context the idiom derives from, hills were strategic goals and holding hills gave advantages. The harder a hill was to defend and hold, the more willing you needed to be to die to defend it (literally). In the idiomatic sense, “dying” might be more like getting yelled at from all sides - or downvoted in a huge way…

You said you have a few opinions you would be willing to die for. That’s probably a bit more extreme than this phrase is intended for.

We have a tool library in Vancouver. I don’t think it’s unique?

In my opinion, no, don’t do it. It doesn’t add anything. But I’m old and crotchety.

I think a lot of it is way more racist than that.

“Old stock white Canadians, and that’s us, and we don’t have to apologize for this room being filled with white people. This used to be what Alberta was. We’re not apologizing for being ourselves… If we have control over immigration, we can control who comes here.”

• Alberta Prosperity Project CEO Mitch Sylvestre

He also said, “the replacement theory is real.” (i.e. the federal government intends to replace “white Canadians” with other races through immigration.) And he claimed Justin Trudeau said this explicitly. (I’m pretty sure he did not…)

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/anti-racism-watchdog-field-complaint-arising-from-immigration-comments-made-at-separatist-town-hall

I use Forkyz for crossword puzzles. It downloads from lots of sources and has a pretty clean interface. No ads.

Why would this have to be specified? Obviously the law doesn’t matter.

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What if you’re on a motor bike?

Well to be fair, there’s probably a lot of people who have no fucking clue what sudo is, but are getting instructions from stack overflow err, AI. Not that this warning would necessarily stop them, but there was an attempt.

It’s a MS issue, not isolated

The OG skibidi toilet

Historically, is this how military coups are triggered?

Non alcoholic Thunderbird and Cheez Whiz

There are places where its the only option. Plus marketing that tells women their babies will die without nestle formula.

The mic is broken on my Pixel 6 and the Pixel camera resets to use the internal mic every time it starts, where Open Camera will save the setting to use an external mic. I may have had to tweak settings initially to get good quality but it’s been fine for a long time. Black Magic would auto switch to external mic (as does Samsung, btw) but the video was absolute unusable garbage on Black Magic on the Pixel. I don’t know if they’ve fixed it yet but there was something terribly wrong with it. All of that led me to using Open Camera by default.

Oh I misunderstood then! I thought I read somewhere that it was a fork.