I just did some searching, and cannot confirm what I thought was true. I’ve no idea where I picked it up because I’ve thought that was the case for decades now. Man, do I feel clueless. Sorry for the confusion. TIL.

It’s my understanding that Zed is used in England and possibly Australia for zero. I never knew Canadians used the word at all - let alone for a different meaning - until now.

American here who always thought “Zed” was used for zero. Now I’m wondering if I ever made an ass of myself misinterpreting someone.

Darn. From the title, I was expecting birds.

It’s probably a more common occurrence than we know. If the issue at hand is not the focus of the institution, then they might just want to push it off on someone else.

Here in America, I knew someone who was suicidal once & they were taken by police to a local hospital for psychiatric care. They didn’t do drugs or alcohol, so the psych ward didn’t know what to do with them. After being confined for three days, they were sent home with no treatment whatsoever - the three days only happened because it happened on a Friday & there was nobody of any authority around on a weekend to decide what to do.

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That’s not the Trump American way.

Yes, this is a thoroughly disgusted and embarrassed American saying this.

Did I miss where your nut jobs proudly went all gestapo on your own citizens? I mean I remember the truckers shutting things down, and Ford… well what more need be said? But you’re still noticably better off from what I can tell.

As an American, I say why TF would anyone sane come to this shithole? I wish I could get out!

Didn’t that already happen somewhere around the turn of the millennium?

EDIT: Yup, although it was a .com domain.

It feels like these assholes look at the complete ass Trump is constantly demonstrating himself to be, and they think “I wanna be just like him!”

I dunno… Hollywood’s shown us some pretty badass “nannies” over the years. Maybe the military are just continuing the ICE precedent of targeting mainly those who can’t resist. They know they can’t beat real nannies.

Honestly didn’t even read the article - the headline said enough.

This is objectively true, so why is it here?

It’s simpler than that: “we’ll say & do whatever it takes to avoid legal proceedings (including bribery) in our mission to slurp up every last bit of money we can, because that’s the only thing that matters.”

While that’s true, in America at least the fact that average global temperatures are rising in large part due to human activities has been a significant point of contention with conservatives who seemingly instinctively deny responsibility for anything negative that they and/or their preferred policies are contributing to. They fought against “Global Warming” tooth and nail despite the documented facts. They more begrudgingly accepted “Climate Change” because it could at least be spun more easily into outcomes that didn’t make them look so bad.

To answer your question, it was indeed a sarcastic comment on the BS surrounding CC being somehow more politically acceptable than the truth of GW. I’ve never been a proud American (in part because of the truth in “pride goeth before a fall,” even though I’m not religious), but I’ve never been less proud than I’ve been forced to become over the past couple of decades.

Well, just where exactly did you think the North Pole was, Santa?

Gotta love the magic of trying to map a 3D sphere into a 2D space. This article I just searched up seems at first glance to do a reasonable job of quickly explaining the reality.

Global warming… …er, I mean “Climate Change…” …will take care of that first issue, and the cascade effect of humans moving northward due to such will take care of the rest.