The Salish languages mostly use a phonetic alphabet, and if I recall correctly, only one has standardized an alphabet which only happened in the 1970s. So the written word got obliterated compared to the pronunciation. The ‘ge’ is meant to sound like ‘get’. But since ‘geo’ exists, we hear and read ‘Jee-oh’ before ever thinking ‘Geh-oo’.

/former geoduck farmer and language student where geoducks were the mascot.

Back when I worked for a health department there was pretty good evidence that people mostly shit at work.

I came across this evidence when inspecting homeless encampments which was also when I came to learn most of them fucking had jobs.

Then covid came around and all the remote workers started blowing up their septic systems because they’d never been used so much and during the daytime.

The sanitary overlap between tent cities and fancy farmhouses is much larger than you’d expect.

I have seen many an occupied barn in rural America.

This kind of situation is usually a medical condition and the land inherited from grandpa. The piece of land and shanty structures on it are all they have. Which is actually a whole lot given the value of land these days.

But for the most part they’ll stubbornly die on the bit of land they grew up on. If they have kids who left, they sell afterwards. If there’s kids that don’t leave, they perpetuate the cycle another generation.

Sorta. The dynasty that formed and ruled the tsardom of Russia were from Kievan Rus heritage by way of Rurik.

Muscovy was the polity that really formed the framework of the tsardom out of the princedoms left in the wake of the Khanates.

For the people I was referencing it was more racial association with people from South and Central America being predominantly Catholic.

I remember a congregation out where I live, in Yankeestan, had astened a crude structure onto their truckbed and they called it their mobile chapel. They’d drive out to agriculture zones and try to preach to migrants against catholicism.

Protestant/Unionist

That is mainly the root of it. The Catholic-Protestant divide is mirrored as the Republican-Unionist divide. Even if the religion could be separated the political implication remained.

Which made things especially tough for the Protestants in the republic and all the Catholics in the union.

Conservatism can easily be a form of liberalism, and can even be considered progressive. It sounds contradictory but conservatism of progressive traditions, customs, and values is a component of many liberal societies. That’s your Teddy Roosevelts, the Southern New Deal Democrats, and the Blue Dog coalition.

there is no necessary overlap afaik.

As long as it is recognized that overlap isn’t a necessity, I think this is fine. The important thing to remember is that none of these terms are wholly exclusive to each other. Discussion just needs to agree to the context of used terms.

Plenty of (big C) Conservatives want to conserve the social institutions of racial segregation or other regressive concepts. But you can also legitimately say Xi Xinping is a conservative in the context of the PRC. So there’s a wide field for the context of the terms to get stretched around and (mis)used and (mis)interpreted.

Liberalism too. It is a concept that has existed and been applied to right wing monarchies and left wing republics. The entire French Revolution is exemplary in how these terms have no strict limit and so a baseline of agreed context is what is necessary.

Sure. Nothing is really stopping anyone from doing that when judging a content creator. If you’re deep into wondering why he’s got so many defenders and attackers online though: he’s political. People get wrapped up in that.

There’s not a lesser of two evils argument there, so it makes sense it’d be unconvincing.

This is more of a ‘judge him by his enemies’ type thing.

This is barely Sabra hummus.

As far as political streamers with fanbases under 30, he’s one of the few alternatives to the manosphere types and groypers. People can have a kneejerk reaction to defend someone those groups routinely target.

People tend to overdemonize feminists and what feminism stands for. This comic is making fun of that by portraying an absurdist scenario where a perfectly normal feminine practice: getting a training bra, is beset by moon-dwelling feminists who seek to destroy the earth.

Instead of, well, recognizing and demanding equality. The original straw man antifeminists make is to deviate from the idea that feminism is about equality. That’s probably the critical foundation this comic needs to make sense as that’s what it is poking fun at.

The joke is that it’s ‘Straw feminist’ as the title, as in ‘straw man fallacy’. The portrayal of the moon-dwelling earth-destroying feminist is the hyperbolic parody of straw man arguments against feminism.

Progressive Americans have to defeat the mini-boss (DNC) before they can on the main-boss (GOP).

There’s a chance the GOP can crack open for a Progressive popout but the MTGs and such already got there years ago so I wager thats about at 0% odds now.

The harbor/bay at the north of that circle is Aberdeen and Hoquiam. It used to be a larger city and a major port, but with Seattle’s development, the railroads from the east terminating at Puget Sound, and the boom of WW2 making the region a military base, it became overshadowed and neglected for the last 100 years.

So you know our creepy uncle who runs a corner store? Has he met a customer for you!

Junji Ito is a gift to us all.

It seems inescapable that any mention of Piefed moderation provokes discussion of Lemmy politics. It was a pretty neutral portrayal of the threadiverse options and this kind of reinforces that assessment, quite frankly.

Yep. Back around 2013 when the national credit rating slid down it became legal/not prohibited to do so after a lawsuit.