this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
11 points (100.0% liked)

News

22874 readers
5200 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
all 43 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Music to my ear and I wonder how much it costed them to comb through all of that.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Fun fact, costed is a word but has a slightly different meaning than the way you have used it.

Costed means to get the details on the cost of something complex. Like "I costed the three projects and the last one is cheapest"

You tried to use it as the past tense of cost, but the past tense of cost is also just cost.

[–] TheBigBrother@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I love free English classes..

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Free education? Hell yeah brother!

[–] SpermHowitzer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Learning is great, especially when it costed nothing!

[–] escalate8315@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact, 'cost' is a regular verb in Canadian English. Infering from the lemmy.ca instance, the comment op might be a Canadian, which means the usage of 'costed' is correct.

Source: https://grammarist.com/usage/costed/

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I am Canadian, and I was taught Cost as past tense in school and university. I've never seen it written Costed for past tense in any government publication either.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I like OPs version better and chose to evolve the language that way.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If only a very small handful of people make the same mistake, it doesn't evolve the language, it's just a mistake, plain and simple.

I know you're just trying to make yourself feel a wee bit morally superior by saying that, but it's the complete opposite of how language evolution works

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not a mistake if I can understand the message.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

It's still a mistake, no matter whether yo cn undrstnd th sntnce

[–] addie@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah; as a native and fairly well-educated speaker, I'm fucked if I can form the past participles of some of our verbs

If I swim across a river, is it now the swimmed river? Swum river? Swam river?

If I sneak into a room, have I sneaked? Snuck? Both sound wrong.

Didn't find anything ambiguous about 'costed', it works for me.

[–] Censored@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

If you swim across a river, it is now a river you've swum. If you sneak into a room, you have snuck in.

Those are correct but they look and sound wrong.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So not only was it hateful, but it was wasteful, too. Good job, Utah.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not that I want to defend these people but, why would they want that to cost a lot? Make a lot of BS jobs?

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

First thing that comes to mind is republicans want government to be wasteful and useless. So they do shit like this, then blame government and regulations, then push for smaller government and ignore their own role in fucking things up.

Also, they're giving jobs to bigots, which they love.

I'm sure there's many other reasons.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

only five were investigated

Can one sue Utah for gross neglience now? I mean, they got thousands of complaints from concerned citizens, and they only cared for investigating five of them? Or do they profile those complaints into "we are not investigating certain types of people", e.g. politicians that have been reported?

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

This is outrageous. They're not even going to attempt to investigate my report about an alien beaming into the bathroom and touching my peepee? Just for that, I'm filing 10 more complaints.

[–] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a straight guy, I have just walked into the wrong bathroom or chaises a kid into the wrong bathroom more times than I want to admit.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I suppose decades of misandric conditioning would create the opinion that all men, trans or not, are sexual predators and closet perverts. This needs to change.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago

misandry doesn't real

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I’m struck by the fact that as a trans woman I look more cis than some women I know who’ve given birth. I’m actually worried about a cis friend of mine if we ever get bathroom laws here.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Based on that numbers it will be mostly cis woman who get harassed. There have been plenty of cases of it already. There was a few big ones in my state when people complaining that their daughters lost in sport

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've been trying to explain to my less enlightened family for years that requiring a trans man to use the women's bathroom only makes it easier for men to just walk in since having a beard and a dad bod no longer means you have to use the men's room.

These laws just don't make any sense and can only make whatever they are afraid of (men hearing their wives and daughters tinkle, apparently) worse.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's what has always stumped me. They do realize that trans men look like... men. Right? Like, they want some dude to just stroll into the women's bathroom? Like, legally want that dude to be forced to stroll into that women's bathroom?!?

The dude doesn't want to be in there. Women don't want the dude to be in there. Why do these politicians want the dude to be in there?!

[–] interrobang@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

and the trans person gets assaulted in the bathroom they are 'supposed' to use! Its just an excuse to banish us from public, there is no right answer.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I've been saying that for a while. Not only does this open up many trans women to additional harassment, it also opens it up to any cis woman someone decides looks too masculine to be a "real" woman.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let's cut to the chase.

This bill, and many like it, are created with a clear purpose: to subjugate women. Harming the LGBTQ2+ community is almost secondary, since they can do that just fine already.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just curious; why did you put a 2 in LGBTQ+? I’ve just never seen that before and wonder what it means? Does it capture the IA?

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

2 is for 2-spirit; I've seen both 2 and 2S, but either way it refers to Indigenous 3rd-gender folks.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago

You learn something new every day… Thank you for the info!

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What the hell. How have I never heard of this? Thank you!

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No problem. It’s a more common term in Canada, so I’ve been seeing it since I was in high school which was like 15 years ago. In my head the “long” LGBT string has always been 2SLGBTQIA+ but I realize the “2S” part isn’t as well known.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago

Ahhh, that makes sense. I’m from America and have seen it evolve from LGB > LGBT > LGBTQ > LGBTQI+. I’m unsure of how well your natives are represented in Canada, but the way we treat them here speaks as to why I’ve never heard the term. They are practically 2nd class citizens according to our government.

[–] m13@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People should keep submitting fake reports, and make them somewhat plausible. Just so they don’t get instantly discarded and can actually tie up more resources by actually getting investigated.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But like, how would they even investigate them? That's the part I don't understand. Whoever was peeing in there, they're gone by the time the cops show up. It doesn't take that long to pee.

[–] androogee@midwest.social 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Republicans show up and taste the toilet seat. They claim they can tell the difference.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love/hate how I can't tell anymore if comments like this is sarcasm or real.

[–] Censored@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's real. They can taste the difference.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago

I'd rather my Tax Dollars go to THAT instead of feeding Starving American Children!