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This completely locked up my laptop. I had to hard power down.

Grammatical possession does not imply property. "My grandmother," "my hometown," "my skeleton," etc.

Thanks!

FYI, Twitter links aren't really reliable any more. When I click that link, I see just one message promising a thread but no thread.

That's exactly his point. You don't hear the apostrophe but you do hear the "s," meaning that Thomas and Thomas' cannot be distinguished. And so Thomas's must be used instead.

Important distinction. "Widdling" is urination.

Corporate personhood includes the ability for corporations to own property, enter contracts, and serve as plaintiff or defendant.

And corporations have civil rights only as a tool of shareholders' civil rights. For example, Citizens United was a corporation formed expressly for the purposes of political speech.

The right to assembly is a restriction on the government, not private enterprise.

I am very thankful for tipping in the US. It provides an incentive for better service, allows me to express my gratitude to waitstaff directly, and gives me influence over the pricing that I do not have in any other kind of transaction. It's great!

> as you’ve probably already entered payment information into the Microsoft ecosystem either for buying apps or movies on the Microsoft Store app or for making similar purchases via your Xbox.

Is this really that common? I've never interacted (directly) with the Microsoft "ecosystem" in my whole life, and I've been a Windows user that entire time. If I was going to purchase a movie or an "app", the Microsoft store is not the place I would go.

Derangement loci

"racists from David Duke to Charles Murray"

I disagree that the absence of a word to link these two ideologically is a fault of the English language.

Well-informed, good-faith disagreement is possible on a range of topics, including this one.