The end of a text is already final enough, so a period doesn’t add any functionality that way unless you somehow believe someone got raptured mid sentence and still hit send.

Sure it does. It disambiguates sentences from questions.

If you received a text that read “Buy bread”, there are multiple ways to interpret that. If I assume the lack of a period is a statement, then I would assume the person is instructing me to buy some bread at the store. But if there were a question mark at the end, the meaning changes - they are asking if they need to buy bread, or perhaps asking if I have already bought bread or am planning to buy bread.

Now, if you are familiar with the person on the other end of the text, you might already have the necessary context to parse it out without the need for formal punctuation, but if it’s someone you maybe don’t text very often or a complete stranger, wouldn’t it be nice to know for sure if they were making a statement or asking a question, definitively and clearly?

Adding an intentional period removes any doubt that it might have been a question. It eliminates the possibility that the person on the other end simply forgot to add a question mark while typing out a hasty text at the grocery store.

You might argue that period or no, the message got across just fine, and that assuming no punctuation is the same as having a period, but that’s not the point. The point is that the period does add functionality, it just isn’t functionality that you deem useful.

I certainly wouldn’t want to replace the effectiveness of proper punctuation in favor of having the period be reduced to a means of signing off my messages in a passive aggressive manner. I can do that all by myself, thank you very much.

It’s entirely possible that the fight was fixed, but Paul’s scheduled bouts do follow very predictable patterns, his opponents are always not boxers or haven’t been fighting professionally for years.

I watched the Tyson/Paul match (on a pirate stream, because fucking giving money to the broadcasting networks for perpetuating this mockery of the sport) and my impression was that Tyson just got gassed in the second round and couldn’t recover. He was in his late fifties, had not been actively training for serious fights, and had health problems leading up to the match itself. Meanwhile, Paul is in the prime of his youth and is wealthy enough to afford the best personal trainers and boxing coaches. He might not have much talent, but that barrier can be overcome with extreme amounts of effort and training.

It’s hard to see your heroes fall to villains worthy of such scorn, I’ll admit that much.

He’s still the governor, unfortunately.

The only reason your phone doesn’t add the punctuation in for you like it does the automatic capitalization of the first letter is because it can’t tell when you’ve finished your complete thought.

I’ll never let lazy cunts tell me I’m being passive aggressive for using goddamn proper punctuation. I’ll be actively aggressive about that.

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Can anybody in this thread who actively omits periods in texts specifically because of the negative connotations explain to me why they think that having that be a normal convention is actually good?

Like, why would anybody want an option to sign off their texts with a passive aggressive slant? I can’t wrap my head around it.

The firm believers in the whole “language is constantly evolving and has no rules” thing would probably not like it if future generations decided fuck using punctuation altogether. No commas, no questions marks, no paragraph breaks. It’s easier for them because they normally communicate in five dimensional haptic virtual reality where punctuation is an anachronistic holdover. How come you aren’t on board with their wacky language rules?

I don’t give a shit if you don’t use punctuation in texts or not, that’s entirely on you and I don’t judge people for using shortcuts, but fuck if I’m going to let someone tell me using a period to end my sentences indicates anything other than “I have finished my thought / I have finished speaking.”.

I warned when they announced the program that Trump never fucking pays.

Anybody who took that deal was asking to get scammed.

Two people, in fact. First was a Hell’s Angels enforcer. Had lunch at a Chinese restaurant with him and a few other people from my former Kung Fu school. Apparently he was a former student and credibly accused of murdering a rival biker gang member, but the jury was hung and couldn’t convict.

Second was none other than Shrimp Boy, after he got released from prison for the murders he committed but before he got locked up again for the racketeering charges. Met in in Chinatown literally a few days before the feds closed in on him. Shared a cup of tea with him without knowing his identity and didn’t find out until someone present told me who he was days later.

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“I don’t use social media.”

You can’t prove a negative. Shift the onus back onto them. Any attempt at them trying to connect the dots should be met with “That user is not me, any similarities in their name is purely coincidental.”

Create a bogus email not tied to any social media and they won’t have a leg to stand on.

Not to mention how incredibly difficult that enforcing such a policy would be. Could you imagine the manpower required for people to trawl through 5 years of social media history searching for verboten political speech against Dear Leader? Wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to use AI for this, since they’d have a hard time finding enough die-hard Trump loyalists to pack into the DHS to actually perform the background checks at the rate they would need to happen…

Better yet, just avoid coming to this rapidly declining country in the first place.

Most likely nothing since Trump famously never pays anybody.

To the folks who are keeping up on the story, did the McDonalds snitch ever get that bounty? Because if nothing else, it will feel like justice if that person gets nothing for selling out Mangione to the fucking pigs.

I’m appreciating the silence while it lasts.

I’ve got a Malamute mix, and yeah, it just never ends. There are definitely times where it’s worse, but you eventually lose the strength to keep fighting the inexorable tide of shed fur and you just accept that your house will never be a clean or sterile environment. Then you stop even noticing it until you wear fancy clothes or someone points out to you that you are covered in it. The roller brushes provide temporary succor, but does nothing in the long term. The Roomba will contemplate suicide. The undercoat rakes will never brush all of it out even if your dog behaves well enough to let you do it for the time it would take to give them a proper brush out every single day.

The nemesis system patents and Namco’s loading screen mini game patent are two examples of why game mechanics and features should never be granted an exclusive patent.

Of course Namco’s patents expired in 2015 at a time when seamless load screens had become the industry standard.

Who knows what the gaming landscape will look like when people are finally able to get their hands on the nemesis system again?

“Good soldier. Now, here are your next set of orders: Stand right there on those gallows and put that noose around your neck.”

That’s what I hope they’ll say to anyone who tries to use the Nuremberg Defense when they get prosecuted for blowing up civilian boats in international waters.

I’ve said this before in other threads, but we know that Donald Trump verifiably tried to cheat to stay in power in 2020, and when it was apparent that his cheating wasn’t working, he incited a mob to storm congress and interrupt the peaceful transition of power.

Why do people think that someone like that, who in 2024 had even less to lose by cheating and was faced with the prospect of real prison time if he did not win, would not attempt to cheat again? Especially when he was never punished for it the first time?

It blew my mind that the Democrats just accepted Harris’ loss without a fight.

It was only after Trump took office again and I observed the behavior of establishment Democrats that I realized they didn’t actually care and are on the same team. I saw those who would decry Trump at the top of the highest mountain but refuse to lift a finger to actually oppose him when they had the power to do so. Now I know they are complicit, and that a Trump presidency doesn’t hurt them, it benefits them. The opposition is just for show.

So, the Democrats probably knew Trump cheated and just let him. He would provide the perfect cover for them to conduct whatever kind of shady business they wanted while Trump makes headlines every single day for 4 years.

I don’t care much for metroidvanias but Dust: An Elysian Tail was fun for a playthrough or two.

He has to get the to point where he thinks MAGA are too leftist before he ratchets over to the other extreme and suggests maybe a communist dictatorship ain’t so bad. So I’d say he’s at least 1 more brain injury and/or lead exposure away from that point.

One of the only things the Trump admin is doing that I actually agree with and have since I was a child. Fuck coins in general but getting rid of the most dead weight coin of them all is a step in the right direction.

It’s an imaginary wrench, because it’s still going to pass.

Boy, if only the spineless wimp dems didn’t cave, Trump would be in a fucking panic right now with the ATC situation. Instead, they delivered him a win right before he would have felt the most squeeze.

Yeah, this is giving me “disbanding the watchdog organization in Wuhan, China to save taxpayer dollars” vibes.