Do they spell it like that?

Yes, because the president of the United States has a hard time keeping his name in the news.

It’s annoying how often political comics aren’t funny at all. They’re just bile. I guess some people find it affirming? I always just roll my eyes when I see this stuff, even when I agree with the message.

boycotts dont work

South African apartheid was brought down by a boycott. Another example is the Montgomery bus boycott initiated by Rosa Parks which ended in integrated buses.

Of course, these boycotts lasted for longer than one day. I think if there’s enough participation in this single-day boycott, somebody will come up with one that’s more sustained.

Yeah, this is basically a trial balloon. How many people can we get to do this thing? Then, once you know, organize something that packs a bit more punch.

Boycott the companies that ditched their DEI initiatives until they bring them back.

Cool. How?

I’m hearing ya-sun-ahs. That U is halfway between uh and oo, like the U in “put”.

Nobody’s going to mistake that stick figure for the real me, though.

JPEG = “jay-feg”

Sequel was a whole different language.

I thought Sequel was an earlier version of SQL. That’s what I remember reading when I looked it up.

Really weird hill to die on, but okay.

I used to pronounce the name Nguyen as “ngoo-yen” until somebody told me it’s pronounced “win”, and i was like “What?”

“F-stab” is just more fun to say.

Yeah, the j-sawn pronunciation is truly inexplicable. Who pronounces S-O-N “sawn”?

According to Wikipedia, that spelling goes back to 1855. I first heard about it in the '90s.

See also ghoti (fish).

I’ll be the first to say that English is a mess. However, there are rules, and this word breaks them.

That “gh” never appears at the beginning of a word, always at the end (as in “enough”). That “ti” is never at the end of a word; it’s always inside (as in “nation”).

“G” does normally make a “J” sound, though. Giraffe, the second G in garage and garbage, engine, gin, and so on.

They show you the posts that are most likely to drive engagement and keep you on the site, e.g. outrage bait. Whether or not that is good is, of course, a matter of opinion, but I think it is bad. Doomscrolling is much like gambling. Most of the time you spend doing it, you feel either angry or sad, but you’re addicted to that occasional hit of dopamine you get.

How is that regulated?