Yeah, this. It’s an amazingly well-written novel… seriously, one of the greats. But I would absolutely never describe it as a love story. That definitely requires some amount of reciprocation and not just grooming and rape.

I listed some reasons in the comment literally right after that.

“Trains already exist” doesn’t address literally any part of the other project. Horses existed before cars, too.

English is kind of weak in this arena because we only have one word for love, but we can modify it to be more useful: romantic love and fraternal love. Any other use stems from these two, and will basically boil down to “I like ___a lot.”

Another specification is when people ask “Do you love them, or are you in love with them?”

“In love” means romantic love, I think. You want to spend your life with this person, probably every day, will overlook their faults and are enamored with the things they do, the way their brain works, etc.

If it doesn’t matter, then why are you using it as a talking point?

You’re actively working against your own agenda.

Yes… that’s literally the point? Tariffs both support existing local producers and are an incentive to move production local.

They weren’t meant to be causative, and I stand by both of my statements. Her writing is objectively bad, and it’s a small miracle that she didn’t manage to ruin this series like everything else she’s written. Yes, I know those are strong words, and yes, I do believe them.

So your answer is “nobody?” Cool, keep supporting Trump, I guess.

Biden is open to outside opinions, and has not outwardly said things like “finish them off,” or “finish the job,” or “I’d give them all the weapons we have.”

Your choice is between Biden and Trump, no matter how badly we all want that to not be the case. Stop supporting the worse option just because you’re mad at the world and want chaos to rule.

No, but your choices are to stay where we are or make it worse. Those are your only two choices, and your stated position is the latter.

DrLupo. I watched him a bunch when he was on twitch, but he got kinda arrogant and negative over the years. Now I watch the people he used to play with before he changed 🤷‍♂️

Biden is a hardcore religious Genocidal Zionist complicit in Genocide. But only Democrats could ignore this massive elephant in the room as if it doesn’t exist and pretend everyone should ignore it with them.

Nobody is ignoring anything. In a first-past-the-post system like we have, a third party candidate cannot win. It’s virtually impossible. We simply see reality, and would prefer to have a chance of avoiding genocide instead of helping Trump guarantee it.

Your righteous anger is ultimately working against your stated cause. Stop indirectly supporting Trump.

Now they’re willing to vote for their blue god emperor that’s bragging about how much he loves supporting Genocide.

So your plan is to either vote for Trump and guarantee genocide, or vote third party, helping Trump gain office, and guaranteeing genocide?

Cool, great plan, that obviously ends super well for everyone involved.

So no matter how much one hates Rowling (I don’t, she’s done more good than evil by far still), she’s smarter and more decent than most of the humanity. That sucks.

Lol. She lucked into an amazing world that managed to remain a good story despite her writing, not because of it. She’s not an idiot, but literally every other piece of writing she’s ever put out kinda slams the “smarter than most of humanity” line.

Have you tried being less transphobic? That’s probably a good first step

I think they can, sure… but can their handlers resist giving them signals to go after the ones they don’t like? I doubt it.

Well, that’s stupid.

if you’re community is over an hour old and has nothing on it

lmao

Lemmy has like 1000 people on it, you need to either chill or work on being some sort of ambassador if your want content.

They’re going to have to clear a lot of stuff for a big conveyor system why not do it properly and go with freight trains?

They would have to do the exact same thing for trains, though. Do you have any comments on the actual differences in the projects, or do you only have (probably rightfully-placed, but still) knee-jerk reactions to your favorite vehicle?

Isn’t that… like… almost the entirety of the purpose of the genre?