Agreed, my friends knew about 90% of these and most of them are not on Lemmy. I think the weak link, or the one most hadn’t heard of, is the new funding bill that grants Trump more crazy powers to thwart the justice system … but at this point who can be surprised by that.

Hahahahaha Hahaha haha “Lawful”

28% of Americans think they are billionaires that are just suffering a temporary financial setback.

Agreed. I have said people ignored the books and dictionary entries, the word Aluminium and MANY others never caught on. You just keep pointing to those books.

The US literally “noped” out of the word Aluminium and refused to use it. If Im wrong, then why arent we saying it today?

It is what it is. The US did not accept the THIRD name change. No one really knew about the first name. Aluminium appeared in the fucking dictionary … but the US population ignored it and stayed with the second name.

Wikipedia is just citing old books … the same old books people disregarded when they refused to use the new weird name.

Webster was an idiot and was trying to change hundreds of words and the population just wasn’t having it. “Soop” instead of “Soup” was literally forced on the public, Aluminium, Dawter … do we use those? No.

Wikipedia is simply wrong. Both spellings were never equally used. Even your post confirms this, the dudes patent said “Aluminium”, but he used Aluminum instead because he liked it. This is how it was everywhere.

From the Wikipedia page you linked;

Davy suggested the metal be named alumium in 1808[30] and aluminum in 1812, thus producing the modern name.[29] Other scientists used the spelling aluminium

The name Aluminium never caught on in the US. It appeared in a few books and was in a dictionary, but so we’re words like Soop (for Soup) and greef (for grief). These did not catch on, Americans just kept using Aluminum. Webster wanted to standardize words … but nobody wanted to use dawter instead of daughter. They did stop using “Gaol” and used Jail instead.

The word history was “alumium” in 1807, then changed to “aluminum” in 1808. It was not changed to “aluminium” until 1812

Welcome to ignore. Everyone else understood the discussion … you are the outlier.

I explained the whole naming process. You gotta read it. The US was given the name as Aluminum and did not change it when the British changed it a third time.

I call dibs on being “Cousin Johnny” I will only attend baptisms, weddings, funerals, and maybe the social events afterwards.

Cops and city government are more interested in giving people tickets than they are of solving crime. Implement a new theft enforcement team that takes complaints online with porch video attachments and goes after porch pirates? No … they dont have the resources.

Put in more traffic cameras to catch speeders and red light runners? Oh yeah, get those criminals.

I suspect that if the US had adopted the name “Aluminium” Britain would have changed it again and they would be making fun of us for not calling it “Aluminiumium”.

We say it the original correct way in the US. Other countries changed it for some reason. The guy that discovered it in 1808, Sir Humphrey Davy named it “Alumium” which based on Alumen (Latin for bitter salt)but quickly changed it to “Aluminum”. I swear I remember reading that he kept getting shit on by the science community and his friends for naming a metal “bitter salt” in Latin … but can’t find a reference.

His colleagues in Britain did mess with him and start using the name “Aluminium” … exactly because it ended in “ium” like ALL the other elements (Oxygenium, Carbonium, Ironium, Zincium, Nitrogenium, and the like). They US just kept the name the discoverer wanted instead of giving into those British asshats that just wanted to troll Sir Davy.

He also isolated Magnesium and named it “magnium”, but later changed to magnesium. The guy just couldnt settle on names. Again, in my version of reality it is because his friends kept giving him shit.

Do you work in ICE Human Resources? How do you know their recruiting process so well? Trump is going to get mad that you divulged his secret super stable genius hiring process.

Loophole: Republicans dont actually pay any of the incentives. They literally fuck over thier voters by lying and giving out the promised money to PAC administrators who are already millionaires.

So stupid. They will just tunnel under a wall. Also walls do not block planes, which is where 90% of illegals come in. They buy a plane ticket, get here, and then just stay.

William has it better. Will, Willy, Willis, Willie, Buddy, Bud, Bill, Billy, and Liam. Willa, Wilhemenia, Wilma, and Billie for the ladies.

The only health reasons given are “In the future you are going to be too dirty to wash your dick and you will get an infection. We are gonna cut that dick … you filthy unwashed animal”

I know! The idea that circumcision was introduced as a way to curb masterbation may or may not be true … but one has to admit the entire procedure and culture around it is a bit sketchy.

Little boy … you have been pre-emptively convicted of not washing your dick … in the future. You are dirty, you will get an infection … in the future … you nasty little shit … so we are going to cut you ✂️

Pay millions for IVF so you can have only boys … wind up with a girl anyway. This just made me laugh. I knew Elon did thus, but it didn’t really register until you mentioned it.

Nice point! I feel so ashamed. We should love our fellow human beings, even the ones that voted for the literal rise of fascism. Seriously tho … fuck anyone that voted for this. If that puts me on the same low level as MAGA … good … at least I can gnaw on their head while in hell (Dante’s Inferno reference).