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See, that kind of comments don't contribute anything to the conversation.

All you're doing is portraying yourself as a victim and hijacking the issue back into the bullshit "are we too pc" debate again, which quite frankly most people are already sick of.

So your friend can't get a job because... there are immigrants who are collecting more in welfare than doctors? Is that how welfare works now?

You've somehow managed to put the phrase "they're stealing both our jobs AND our welfare" unironically in the same sentence, kudos.

Can people rename this to something that makes sense? Seeing a post on the front page saying "A brief update" is so vague. An update by whom? About what? There's literally not enough information to gauge whether or not I should pursue this further without clicking on it.

That is one region of the world that I do not know much about. Would you have any links about the history that led to the current state of the affairs that you've described?

Thank you for your insights, this has been useful! (I was actually hoping to ask this to a linguist for some time now, so I was happy when I saw your message!)

You surmised my current situation well, I've been focusing a lot on the 5 categories and little on the locutions. I shall remedy that :)

One thing in your answer that I'm a bit fuzzy on is what you meant by the confusing thing in the brackets (act/force and [or vs] intent)?

Why do you think that sharing buttons are crap?

What? Where do all of these conjectures come from? Is there any evidence?

Do you agree with Searle's classification of speech acts into five different types? Or would you use a different way to classify them?

I What would it mean, statistically, if it's getting it right less than 50% of the time?

That is such a messed up and privileged attitude.

"Homelessness isn't a problem, you just need some seeds. Ergo if the homeless are starving they must be too lazy or maybe they spend all their money on drugs so they can't even afford a few seeds!"

Try being homeless, then go back and tell us how "easy" it is. (Speaking as someone who has been homeless before).

> I'm Dutch, and bluntly calling out flaws in each other's work is not considered all that rude over here; it's almost the opposite: not calling someone out on their flaws implies we either consider them a lost cause or not worth the hassle of educating.

Woah, I do that too! Maybe I should move to Netherlands.

I'm surprised by people saying "well how could AirBNB end racism?!"

It's not like they have access to all the data from who the hosts accept and reject and the profile pictures of each.