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  • I recently learned that Mexico's full name is The United States of Mexico, so we actually share the US part of our official names, but not the America part. So it would be more confusing to call Mexico America, and more confusing to call the USA just the US

  • Okay. Please give my apologies to your people, oh Lord of Vapes.

    Edit: I googled "vape oil" and people call it that sometimes. I don't get why you're so offended by how people lable their viscous slippery goo

    Edit2: You're right. Juice really is the scientific term for the stuff in vapes. I've been a fool

  • I'm sorry for assuming your intentions were less than innocent and positive. I also want to live in that sort of world, and I hope it didn't seem like I was jumping on your case or calling you a jerk. I just think it's important to choose our words in a way that encourages people to read. Too often people think they're bad at reading or math or something and so they avoid it, when it should be more like singing; it doesn't matter if it sounds good, we sing as a manner of expression. Reading should be for everyone. But, I was misguided, and you weren't disagreeing with that notion, and so I'm sorry.

  • It's written at a higher than 6th grade target, so it might be a challenge for anyone who's not used to that. Please give it a good faith effort to read

    You know, you lose a lot of people with comments like that, talking down to everyone. You've provided a source that makes a lot of good points, but that's some alienating phrasing that'll make people feel you're elitist.

  • Your argument sounds so weak right now. Really? "I don't live there! I mean, I did. Last week. But now I'm not from there, I'm from here". Whatever dude.

    Wherever you are now, I bet there's at least one person in town who would deck you if you tried to call their country, that they're proud of, "America", which is the name of another country that they've likely been screwed by in the past. Except I bet you're still in California.

  • Does any other country on the continent of North America or South America actually have the word "America" in their name? Do people from countries who don't use the word "America" in their name identify more strongly with the word than people from countries that do use the word "America" in their name? You're in America according to your post history. Who exactly are you sticking up for?

  • You clearly know more about this than I do, and you've thought a lot about it. Your points deserve a better response than I can give at this time, but I wanted to acknowledge that at least. I also wanted to say you aren't pedantic and I'm sorry I said that. You spent time and thought on making a good conversation and I wish I had been more engaging with that instead of trying to be correct. Thank you for still conversing instead of arguing even after I was less than perfect of a conversation partner. I hope in the future I see more of your comments. Have a really nice day.

  • You're right, you are being pedantic.

    Edit: Actual response. You took time to type all that out, I should at least say why I disagree.

    WINE is a compatibility layer. A translator. It helps a non-native language speaker speak the native language. The whole reason WINE exists is to make a non-native executable execute outside of its native environment. Even if the code is very functionally similar to something like .NET, the function of WINE is to enable non-native code to run as though it were designed for Linux. Downloading WINE doesn't suddenly make those .EXE files be retroactively designed with Linux in mind. It's still not native code.