Step 1: someone says trans people are bad and wrong

Step 1.5: live in a world providing plenty of evidence to the contrary. (No action required)

Step 2: attempt diplomacy by saying that statement is probably false and its use will be reacted to with force. (Often a previously stated rule and therefore no action required)

Step 3: use force.

The fact is, saying that anyone has “skipped diplomacy” is also disingenuous. The discussions bigots are trying to have aren’t novel, they’ve been had to the extent that they are solved. No one “decided” they are bigots and have to get kicked out, it’s a conclusion.

I’m with you, but understanding someone’s view sometimes means acknowledging that it is, in fact, irrational. There are reasons some give as to why they think that cis women need protection from trans women, but those reasons are either not rational since the vast majority of evidence is to the contrary, or they are founded on the extreme minority of evidence that confirms them (meaning the search for evidence was conducted irrationally).

If I try to understand someone’s point of view, restate it to them in a way they accept, and present overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and their response is to say the evidence is irrelevant because it’s possible some of it was biased, that’s irrational.

Sometimes it varies by neighborhood.

Do you mean fluoridated? Was the drinking water really chlorinated?

Mostly in schools, so not something a traveller is likely to see

Weird relationship to Socialism

Cold war really messed US up, mentally

Half-and-half is supposed to be “half milk, half cream” and is used primarily in coffee instead of heavy cream.

I’m honestly not sure what you’re referring to. Is that a word they use a lot in their lyrics?

If you start it, just put a tag that the list is incomplete and the wiki crowd will finish it.

I think you were pretty obvious. Someone actually curious would have asked what it meant.

Not a fan of the 0.5-ply paper they have at work?

Yeah, about the same.

This particular instance was certainly pretending to be ill-informed, so

You mean antepenultimate?

I like to make the joke whenever someone mentions a Russian doctor falling out of a window or something:

There’s defense and there’s defenestration.

Gloam/gloaming

The onset of twilight/becoming gloomy

Feel like tenebrous being on a list of obscure words is tenuous, but maybe I just have esoteric interests.

I had a look to see if I could find a full list but sadly not. However most Wikipedia entries for the individual novels include a section called, “The unfamiliar word,” if you want to find more.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

I see you’ve never been to Canada.

We live in a timeline where the niceties of this generation or era were possible and came to be. Seems like a pretty decent timeline to me.