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yung_dingaling t1_j9u1ytz wrote

And it goes deeper than just social media. Fox news is entertaining the idea and pushing it on their viewers while CNN, WaPo and others are also giving it airtime by saying it's a bad idea. Responsible media outlets would give her antics as little attention as possible. It's like they haven't learned their lesson from the Trump era where they gave him coverage 24/7 leading up to the election.

At best they're just using her for clicks to make money but at worst they're complicit. In Russia, Putin funds his supporters and his opposition to destabilize any threats to his rule and create a smokescreen. Funding both sides of any issue can cripple a country. It's likely the biggest reason that Russia was cut off from financial institutions and the Swift system and their accounts were frozen. Makes it a lot harder to fund these extremists even if it doesn't ultimately stop them.

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AMeasuredBerserker t1_j9u1u1n wrote

Fair enough, I'll dial down the criticism a little, but it really did feel like you were looking for a reason that it mean 1/10th rather than using the material immediately confronted with if you googled said word. Respected dictionaries all specific state that the "1/10" meaning is historic.

I know my friends wouldn't know decimate is 1/10 and would roll my eyes if I explained its historic useage vs what everyone uses it for, but you are probably right with your last point.

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Card_Zero t1_j9u0jyb wrote

I'm not the same person you were talking to previously, I don't have to be right to prove any point, and in fact I acknowledge I'm wrong about everything most of the time. I just happen to like Wiktionary, it's my go-to.

I don't know about Cambridge Dictionary, but Merriam-Webster have a page of notes about this particular "problem word". Dictionary.com acknowledge that the "devastate" usage has been criticized. My feeling is that the one-in-ten usage (probably popular in Victorian times when every user of long words knew Latin) has had an upsurge in popularity over the last decade or so due to people on the internet being anal about it.

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autotldr t1_j9tzz9w wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 84%. (I'm a bot)


> The German chemicals company BASF has said it will cut 2,600 jobs as Europe's largest economy braces for recession triggered by the energy crisis that intensified after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine a year ago.

> The year was "Dominated by the consequences of the war in Ukraine and in particular by increased raw material and energy prices", BASF said in a statement on Friday.

> "Continuing large price increases and the ongoing energy crisis had a negative effect on the German economy towards the end of the year," the office said.


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SnakesTancredi t1_j9tzobo wrote

Just speaking of names, I hope Australia names their weapons after their animals. There has gotta be something with the EMU acronym but they have such a variety of deadly creatures that It would be interesting.

That or just make a drone that drops snakes. I dunno get creative with it and shake things up.

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knobber_jobbler t1_j9tzhq1 wrote

Every economist and diplomat disagrees with you. Brexit is a financial and diplomatic disaster for the UK. There is no United States of Europe and the UK would have no say in stopping it now anyway. In fact the UK leaving will likely increase ties between EU countries going forwards. We've shot ourselves in both feet.

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