You can’t pay for donations as that encourages risky behavior. People who shouldn’t donate will if they can make money.

That doesn’t refute my point. Thailand has ladyboys, sure, but there are easily 10x the number of female sex workers. It’s one of the most well known cis sex tourism destinations.

Thailand isn’t really famous for it’s ciswomen prostitutes…

Uhh, what? Yes it is.

Clambake has always meant smoking weed in an enclosed space to me, typically a car. See also: fishbowl

I have way too much fun Shazam-ing birds with the Merlin Bird ID app. Constantly listening for new calls now, it’s like Pokémon hunting IRL.

Fair enough, you make a point with that. It serves a function there, but I still contend the tate in orientate is superfluous.

It is not uncommon for words in English to have variants which are slightly longer than they need to be, and our collective response to these words is somewhat capricious; some of them make people Very Angry (irregardless, conversate, preventative), while others (commentator) seem to elicit little more than a shrug.

Yeah, I take issue with all of these, including commentator, despite it being commonly used. Just say commenter. They’re commenting. I don’t care for all these extra taters.

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Still doesn’t make sense to me. There’s no need for the “tate”. She was disoriented, not properly oriented. Do you say “orientate” for the verb, or “orient”?

“Disorientated” gets me. Why not save a few letters and use “disoriented”? You don’t orientate yourself to your environment, you orient yourself.

I dislike AI for just about everything, except memes and shitposts. It’s a great fit

Not the kind of dueling visits I was hoping for.

Why? I see comments claiming the commenter to be hateful but nothing addressing what he actually said.