He explained the etymology as background information before pointing out what “apologists” means. He was correcting your misunderstanding of a word (the one you didn’t bother to look up and instead chose to react based on not knowing the word) and explaining why the false cognate existed. The main point wasn’t the linguistic history lesson. It was that “apologists” doesn’t mean “people apologizing”.

Just suck it up and learn, buttercup. You were wrong and are now doing a really bad rearguard action.

Who said anything about etymology? Your problem was not knowing the current definition.

Another way to learn is to look up words you don’t know instead of a) guessing, and then b) reacting based on guesswork.

Yes. Proton hasn’t enshittified yet.

… however only paying Google Workspace customers will be able to access it for the time being.

So the way to escape it is to not pay Google. I’m not sure they thought through their business model yet.

These ridiculous mice with a dedicated AI button are showing up all over now. 😠 I mean … how can you fuck up something as simple as a mouse!?

They just have to hire sociopaths. Fortunately for them, the world of techbrodudes is mostly sociopaths!

Spoken like someone who’s never been creative once in her fucking life.

Personally I’ll embrace the technology by putting tire puncturing strips all over the place.

I need to work out a quad-lingual joke sometime: English, German, French, and Mandarin.

I hate you. So much.

All these high-quality puns in response are leaving me kinda blue.

Did you understand the headline? (I sure did, as did, I would wager, most people who read it.) Commenting on grammar, then, is purest pedantry. And pedants are only slightly above pederasts on the ladder of morality.

It’s easy to opt out.

Don’t use Instagram. Use (or if you have more tech smarts than I do, run) a Pixelfed instance instead.

And?

Techbrodudes do techbrodude. Loads of shitty features have gone into software over the ages. (Like the move to web apps over native, say.) The fact that techbrodudes are chasing after the latest piece of shit tech means nothing.

Wake me up when we actually have AI. Hyper-complicated games of mad-libs is not AI.

Yes. Life is a constant struggle for … the person … who can read without difficulty and not for the one who gets confused by trivial and common formatting. That’s definitely how it works.

“Dissenting” is to the left of “the” in the comic example I gave. Did that confuse you too? If one confuses you and the other doesn’t, I really don’t know what to say. They’re using the SAME FORMATTING. (It’s called “centred text”.) If both confuse you then at least you’re consistent (but very bizarre given how common this formatting is).

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I don’t even know how to respond to this.

Kirk’s complaint is at the top. Not only is English read from left to right, but it’s also read TOP TO BOTTOM. This fact has been used all over the place in writing, including in comics:

(So ubiquitous is this format that I literally just popped a comic I was in the process of reading up onto my screen and there it was in one of the frames! I didn’t have to go searching.)

You’ll also see it in advertising, in some books with fancier formatting, and a whole bunch of other places.

So remember not only “left to right” but “top to bottom” and you’ll do fine.

Where did you find a picture of my termite!? 😮