Pitch. There weren’t countertenor parts we needed to fill, the teacher was just determining everyone’s native range and that’s where she fell.

You’re right, I got confused because I went to high school with a girl who sang countertenor, but it’s usually guys

Lead vocalist sings somewhere in the soprano-countertenor range

Spin and propaganda have already been said, and those are good. Rhetoric, from your title, is also good for this.

Framing, reframing, recontextualizing

The point is that people generally have trouble seeing others’ struggles they themselves don’t face.

Crossposting a typo is so funny. Ok, so I know proofreading is old-fashioned, but even in a title?

Corporate middle managers don’t use semicolons. They don’t even know when to use colons or apostrophes.

They taught AI to talk like HR reps.

You’re assuming I didn’t because… ?

If you thought before posting, you could have deduced that blocking happened and wasn’t enough.

She lost because the average voter votes for whatever name they’ve heard before.

“If I’m winning, you are wrong. If I’m losing, it’s just a joke” you are what we call a narcissist

I guess you haven’t been around a lot of “professionals.” Doctors are often shockingly inept at computers.

You declare a group gets a monopoly on large hats, so evidently you’re a supremacist. Playing dumb does not absolve you.

There’s a group of trolls (?) on Bluesky I find particularly irksome, more so than anything similar on reddit.

Rotisserie chickens are pretty cheap, the hat might be thrifted, and the movie might be a matinee

Do you think a group can claim a monopoly on large hats because you are a supremacist, or some other reason?

Bluesky got too toxic so I’m on Lemmy and Reddit now

Dr Iain Stewart has some good documentaries, Earth: The Biography and How The Earth Changed History

Skyward Sword ain’t great though

There are plenty of cheaper games out there. Go on whatever virtual store and check out current sales, and simple games made by small studios.

Cult of the Lamb, Spiritfarer, My Time at Portia, The Last Campfire, Arise: A Simple Story and What Remains of Edith Finch are all worth checking out.