I’m fiercely protective of my junior coworkers and do a lot of mentoring.

    • Impound4017@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      2 days ago

      Just mentally insert “you are observing” after the “POV:” and move on with your day. This argument has been a lost battle for a long time now, in much the same was that “literally” was.

      • finitebanjo@piefed.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        Ugh like, I’m so totally like sorry that you’re having such a literally hard time rn, but I’m going to correct people every single time.

        • binarytobis@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          I’m with you. It may be that it’s “technically legitimate use of language” according to linguists, but that doesn’t mean my distaste for it isn’t any less legitimate either.

        • Impound4017@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          2 days ago

          Hey, don’t let me stop you. I only mean to say that you’re very likely wasting your breath, and I know that from my own experience losing the argument against the expanded definition of literally. Languages change, prescriptivism is a losing battle, and that’s just the nature of things. It’s why we aren’t having this exchange in Proto-Indo-European.

  • SleepyPie@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    I don’t think it’s smart to bait Christians like this. It’s like pretending you also see a schizophrenic’s worst delusions.

    • macniel@feddit.org
      4·
      2 days ago

      Only Satan ever had a genuine interest in the wellbeing of humans while God loved to keep his sheep dumb, did a little genocide and tortured at least one of his faithful.