Recent comments in /f/nottheonion

total_alk t1_j69dynj wrote

I don't understand how English works--and I'm a native speaker. It's perfectly proper English to say "The French", "The English", or "The Dutch" when referring to the people of those countries. But it is not proper English to say "The American", "The German", "The Canadian" when referring to people of those countries. Am I missing something? Is it a simple matter of the words ending in an "h" vs. "n"?

The grammar is confusing.

Edit: to be clear, my comment is about grammar, not whether it is appropriate to use those terms to refer to people groups.

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Sonof8Bits t1_j69con5 wrote

The point where I noticed a site was an AI fake was because everything was labeled top 10 and every post was at least 50 pictures. Good at scraping content, not so good at counting.

Come to think of it, that's quite an achievement, making a computer program so dumb that it can't do basic computations.

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TechnicalSymbiote t1_j69c5w7 wrote

It seems like treating systemic racism with bike paths may not be the most apt method.

Edit: not making claims about effectiveness, just noting that it's certainly not what most people expected when thinking of strategies to combat systemic racism, which is probably why OP thought it fit the sub.

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sprint6864 t1_j69bbzo wrote

Body builders built up that metabolic rate, it's not something you can just construct over a few weeks in the gym. Their bodies are actively consuming a massive amount of calories while they're resting. What's more, they aren't just consuming anything and everything, their diets are very specific and focus on Macros. Reddit science and actual nutrition aren't the same. Healthy and long term weight loss/gain will always be more than just calories in/out, hence why The Biggest Loser is constantly being sued for the long term damages they've caused to contestants

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