Yeah, I wasn’t taught this in french class, hardly anyone is. idk why. My teacher told me about it after class when I asked about it.

In the infinitive, ne pas verb is the correct order.

I’m a woman. Yeah it’s bothered me my whole life. I used to be really angry about it. Now I just accept it as the status quo. In the last few paragraphs of your post you are basically describing the Smurfette Principle, Two Girls to a Team,and other tropes. Also the Bechdel test.

I heartily recommend Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 1 is rough, but it’s got good gender equality.

Nowadays though, you get a lot more racial diversity on western TV than you used to. I think that’s something which has improved quite a lot.

Sometimes I do get what they mean though when there are women or other minorities when coupled with bad writing. I can kind of understand why people complain about “woke” media when I see shows like Supergirl or Star Wars: The Adept. Meanwhile, - Andor, Rogue One, Alien are great and have diversity, and people don’t complain about these being “woke” so much. So, I guess, shitty writing can score an own-goal.

Thank you.

What are some major relevant events that were predicted but haven’t happened yet?

Downvotes are for low-quality content, bad-faith content, etc.

Most bright-line example of this is: if OP asks “what’s your favourite fruit” and somebody says “bananas,” don’t downvote it just because you dislike bananas.

It gets harder when somebody says something you disagree with politically, but argues it well and in good faith. I would still not downvote in this circumstance.

For an example of when I would downvote: if OP asks “do bananas contain potassium?” and commenter says “No, only potatoes contain potassium.” – this is low quality content, they could have confirmed their answer with a quick google search.

Downvotes are not for disagreements.

I’d swap tuesday and thursday, and sunday and saturday. SMTWTWFS

I have never encountered this situation. I did not know this was something people did.

This makes me feel sad about my job, but i upvote anyway

ah! Thanks for explaining.

idk it just was phrased in a disagree-y kinda way. Thought maybe they’d misread.

That’s true. So I think we need to come up with cleverer ways to make people see Musk as a threat. Just because he is a Nazi doesn’t mean pointing at him and crying wolf is the best way to fight.

Are you… disagreeing with me? Or are you reaffirming what I’m saying? I am not sure I understand the point of this comment.

My absolute favourite thing is women doing things that “only men do.”

(P.S. am a woman)

I was taught when I was young that you don’t call something that isn’t really genocide genocide, someone that isn’t a nazi a nazi, etc. because it dilutes the meaning of the word. I do think that Israel is committing a genocide, and I do think that Musk is a neo-nazi; I’m not diluting these terms to say this.