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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No one is suggesting it's a good thing, but trying to make out a correction on the scope of the problem (UK vs a subset) is an attempt to justify it, is an emotional overreaction or an attempt to pick an argument where none exists. Cool your jets son.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

There are 8 current dukedoms https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_dukedoms_in_the_United_Kingdom

And about 3 times that many historical dukedoms. So 2 of 8 is a small number 2 of 28 an even smaller number.

By eyeball the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancashire are less than 5% of the land mass of the United Kingdom and maybe 10% of the population tops, so "only" meaning a small portion would be fair.

Having said that, from context I think you're inferring the wrong meaning of "only" - I would read that as singling out the two impacted areas (regardless of comparative size). In other words "of all the UK specifically (only) these two areas are affected.

I'm not OP so could be wrong of course. Often am.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Good. He deserves to be banned

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

TIL, and thank you for allowing me to avoid googling that

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

It's a real word. And used correctly in context so unlikely to be a typo.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/backronym

https://www.wordnik.com/words/backronym

Acronyms were very rare prior to about mid 20thC.

A number of words sound like they should be an acronym or people searching for an explanation of them make backronyms out of them.

Posh and rap being turned into acronyms as per the first like are good examples of a backronym.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There's a lot of South Africans on reddit commenting that "wid kant" or "wit kant" (I forget which) is Afrikaans for open side - and he can be seen in the vids trying to get defenders back into position.

Apparently kant is pronounced the same as cunt

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Insert surprised pickachu face here

Well that's out of character for Google

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yep this is exactly why I refuse to do the scan as you go, it ends up seriously frustrating. Self scan at checkout is fine if you don't have paracetamol or alcohol, otherwise you're waiting ages for assistance.

It's definitely an overall worse experience

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Mullvad works fine on both LMDE and stock mint fwiw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What repository do you have added, there's only fdroid and guardian in the stock fdroid settings (and eternity doesn't come up)

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