Well with officer involved shootings I can kind of understand the passive perspective, seeing as cops are not really acting on their own accord.

I genuinely don't understand this comment.

In the olden days, a news report would say "A suspect was fatally shot by a police officer."

Now, they'll only say "A suspect was fatally injured during an officer-involved shooting."

Which is like, yeah no kidding the officer was "involved" -- he pulled the trigger!

I believe the new in vogue term is "Latine"

How is that any different than just saying “Latin” … I’m genuinely trying to think of how this might be pronounced, particularly with an eye towards American regional accents and yeah… it’s not great.

Latine:

- Lah-teen … rhymes white latrine

- Lat-ein-e … normal “lat”, Germanic pronunciation of “ein”, like the number one or Einstein, “e” pronounced either “ee” or “eh”

- Latin-e … latin-ee, rhymes with matinee,

- lat-tine … lah-tine as in the tines of a fork.

Or my favourite

- Latin-e … just “latin” but spelled with a silent “e”.

This is less than ideal… outside of using mispronunciation as a shibboleth, you normally want a group identifying word to be clearly identified and picked up by any possible group members regardless of if they have heard someone speak it. You want such words to be easily used by the people who identify with it, also crucially it’s self-adoption by the group that is being identified that matters… If no one you would call latine likes you calling them latine, or latinx, or Latino or Latina or Latin… you probably should just ask them what they want and call them that instead, that’s just my opinion from over in Australia where this particular identity/word fight appears to have mostly gone unnoticed against our own local issues.

It's a Spanish word (a neologism, of course, used by a small minority of speakers at present), so pronounce it like any other Spanish word:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/latine#Pronunciation_3

Admittedly the question of how to pronounce a Spanish word in English is non-trivial and subsumes the question of how to pronounce Spanish and the question of how to pronounce English ... but apart from that no special case is required for the word "latine"!

Thanks that is helpful. Is this clearly accepted enough to correct native speakers for example when proofing copy?

The correct name for a group of Latino people is Latinos, or Latinas if the whole group are known to be women.

No it's not. It's vigilantism.

Well the actual reason is of course that the people involved with this movement do not want their threads read. It shines a light on everything shady, dishonest and bad they have done, social media influencers want to appear holy as a saint in front of their audience as it increases their influence, so telling your entire audience to engage with a thread that makes you look like a horrible person is a bad move.

what I was saying is, let's hop on a vpn and put a bit of humanity in their venom

Another big reason is to inhibit the competition, this is often seen in video game servers DDoS attacking each other in order to get people to switch

> Speech can be violence

No. Don't blur this line or you not only lose credibility, you descend into absurdity.

The problem with e-bikes is that they have been hampered down so hard by regulations.

No throttle, only pedal assist, 250w motors maximum and no assist over 25km/h turns it from the perfect future-proof vehicle for inner-city use and suburban commuting into a weird hybrid that isn't fast enough to replace a light road bike, But also not strong enough to haul multiple saddlebags full of groceries up hills without breaking a sweat.

The Bosch CX motor in my bike is supposedly 250w. I don't believe that for one minute. Steep hills whilst I'm loaded with shopping are no problem at all.

Around town the speed is fine although it would be nice to go a little quicker out of town.

I hope that electric motor cycles will come down in cost and weight. A little faster than ebikes, and silent, but with all the safety features of a motorcycle. And registered. And requiring a license.

Outside of ABS, I cannot think of any safety features a motorcycle has. Maybe traction control if you’re really concerned. Even then, ABS and TC is still optional.

You’re not getting forward collision warning or anything like that on two wheels. Certainly not airbags or a cage to protect you…

Headlights, Brake Lights, Indicators, Mirrors.

Speculative bubble getting bigger and bigger by attracting greater and greater fools. No matter what Elon does or says, it's just a zero-sum game. What would the humanity lose if Bitcoin disappeared right now? Absolutely nothing (except people who hold it would lose their "investments").

To the second point, you should look into the definition of monopoly. Amazon is a behemoth, not a monopoly. And they have created immense value.

Yes, that crypto thing was a real damage for humanity.

The people who are hurt by dips whether artificial or not are invariably going to be new, small time investors.

Even if you think they shouldn't gamble with their money I find it hard to argue there was no damage done.

What about gains from allegedly manipulating those cryptos up? Are those universally good for humanity?

God no, I'm no crypto-nut don't get me wrong.

Propping up a bubble destined to pop is bad too, so why get involved?

Think of the millions of starving kids in 3rds world countries who might've been lifted out of poverty, but for Musk's mercurial tweets about Bitcoin.

This honestly speaks more to the authors inability to organize.

I personally seek to intentionally stay away from walled-gardens, reduced reliance on huge corporations seems like a winning move in the long run.