And for a linguist the question is really whether there are native speakers who consider it correct. Here there are millions who say yes.

I think you’d call this elision. Assume that the phrase is originally “the car needs to be washed” but you cut out “to be”, making it into a shorter form. It’s pretty common in language to shorten things to make it faster to speak. Think of the endless contractions in English or perhaps leaving part of a sentence completely unspoken because the content is easily assumed by the interlocutors.

Don’t kid yourself–it will eventually become more like Twitter once the entire planet onboards. Decentralization will help a lot, though.

It’s cute how you made it personal for no reason.

Funny enough I learned about it in a linguistics class from a professor out of Michigan. Never heard the concept before and I think a lot of people had their minds blown.

To go after a loose group of reporters from different countries?

They aren’t in the United States. This lawsuit is in France.

Dialect variation. For me, saying “the car needs washed” sounds truly strange but millions and millions of people say it. You’re experiencing similar with this phrase.

I’ve only had two people say they would block me. In both cases it was me asking questions about their comment and them getting angry and not having or wanting to give an answer.

I only block when people get personal for no particular reason.

I shudder when I go to an Apple meeting because they use Webex. (Shudder)

When you input your password, then your biometrics (faceID, fingerprint, etc) become active. A restart requires you to enter that again. The police can make you put your finger on your phone or look at it, but they can’t make you divulge your password without a court order.

You’ll never know who did the voting. There are some odd people who will just downvote any comment. There are also people who makes bots to do the same. Every chance that some idiot didn’t like that you have an opinion, but it may not be that at all.

It is very weird how people are coming in to declare their preference on architecture for some reason.

I’ve come up with a similar technique when I’m trying to sleep and experience insomnia. You might not fall unconscious but you can keep your body and breathing still. This results in rising feeling much better than tossing and turning while worrying about it.

Gosh I wish it were that simple

Yeah you’re getting a block. Grow up.

Did you cross your arms, fall to the floor, and yell “no” as you typed that?

No need to be combative over some random comment dude.

THC is not toxic and has no fatal dose. You can do whatever to want with it.

It actually can cause bad nausea, headaches, and panic attacks. One of my students got cannabis induced psychosis and was locked in a psych facility until he became strange again.

Most of these things, paranoia aside, are not common but they do affect some.