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  • On a related tangent, because I see that this is mostly discussed to death, I dont get why Americans decided to merge other unrelated words.

    For example, being exhausted and the rubber circle that cars and bikes use to roll smoothly are the same word in American English whereas we (UK) use different spellings.

    Tire - Being exhausted

    Tyre - Round rubber wheel thing












  • It’s all being recycled into new products

    I’m afraid its not. There are many plastics that don’t have any method of recycling, and plently more that require specific machinery for their “one time” recycling that just isn’t being used.commercially.

    when it comes to plastic bottles for example, close to 100% of them are returned and recycled into new bottles

    Even the PET bottles can only go through the process once or twice before becoming too degraded. That’s not even taking into account that most manufacturers want white or clear plastic, and recycled does not work that way.

    The separation and recycling that you do is mostly gaslighting and green washing.


  • Not American here. Why would you put the punctuation inside the quotes unless you are quoting punctuation? Unless I misunderstood what you mean.

    For example:

    Bob wrote “this is amazing!”.

    Bob used an exclamation point, so I quoted an exclamation. If it is the end of my sentence then I use a full stop, if I quote it then it would imply the end of their sentence even though it wasn’t.

    Frazorth is amazing when he speaks, as I never knew someone could be quite so incoherent.

    Would be quoted as

    Bob said “Frazorth is amazing.”

    It distorts the context.






  • I only had bad experiences with an XPS, then I found out that the Linux model was a cut down version so that Dell didnt have to support the fingerprint reader and other gadgets.

    Lenovo at the time were working with Fedora to get all their fingerprint drivers upstreamed so the choice seemed obvious.

    AMD T14 Gen 2, and it’s still great.