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NoTime4LuvDrJones t1_j5wu4m4 wrote

Reply to comment by Bergamus432 in The future of space travel might rely on mushrooms by Ok_Champion6840

Reminds me of a story my older cousin told me when he was young in the late 70s. His gf gave him acid and they took it, his first and I’m pretty sure his last time taking it. They ended up in his backyard where he said he needed to hold onto the grass for dear life to prevent himself from getting sucked into space. Lol Like using every muscle in his body to hold on to the grass, he even made a face like a weightlifter struggling with weights. Lol And it sounded like this battle to not get sucked into space lasted a long while. Freaked him out to say the least

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BrockManstrong t1_j5wsva5 wrote

Reply to comment by wostil-poced1649 in First Navajo woman becomes Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council by AudibleNod

Here's a list of cases where the tribal authorities had to sue the US government, beginning in 1940: https://www.justice.gov/enrd/significant-indian-cases

Failure of the The Government to protect Indians on tribal lands: https://indianlaw.org/safewomen/violation-human-rights

The Government asserts it's sole right to prosecute crimes committed against Indians by non-Indians on reservations: https://www.bia.gov/as-ia/opa/online-press-release/solicitor-says-us-has-criminal-jurisdiction-reservations-where-tribes

State crimes are automatically Federal crimes on reservations: https://www.bia.gov/faqs/do-laws-apply-non-indians-also-apply-indians

A summation of American history with regards to removing the indigenous population: https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/native-american/removing-native-americans-from-their-land/

A US Government Accountability Office report on how the US is currently failing the people it sequestered on reservations: https://www.gao.gov/tribal-and-native-american-issues

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half3clipse t1_j5wp0hs wrote

Reply to comment by -y-y-y- in First Navajo woman becomes Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council by AudibleNod

Headline conventions accept syntactic ambiguity in favor of information density, on the assumption the reader is both 1: willing to not be deliberately obtuse and 2: if interested can read the entire following article which will explain the issue/event/etc in greater detail.

This is not new, and has been a telegraphic style was the convention long long before anyone in this thread was born. It's been how headlines have worked your entire life. If you read this title and don't easily grasp what they're talking about, that's pretty much on you.

>New Navajo Nations Council speaker to be woman for first time

That's still ambiguous anyways: It reads as if the new Navajo Nations Council speaker has just now decided to be a woman for the first time.

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half3clipse t1_j5wniei wrote

Reply to comment by Table100 in First Navajo woman becomes Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council by AudibleNod

It's also just headlinese, attempting to compress important information into a compact headline.

And it's perfectly fine and understandable. Headline conventions do present some syntactic ambiguity at some point, but this is entirely understandable if the reader applies even a fraction of common sense, let alone one that reads the article under the headline.

On an ambiguity scale of 1 to crash blossoms, this is a 3 at most.

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