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It's common to the point of mootness, but: when describing the planet, Earth is a proper noun and should be capitalized. Otherwise you are referring to soil.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 14 hours ago

It was an expensive victory. Dems shelled out a total of $40,000,000 on it. With musky, the repubs spent about $50,000,000.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago

Sorry Bernie forgot to capitalize EARTH TO MAKE IT A PROPER NOUN

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 114 points 1 day ago (13 children)

While we're on the topic, that's not how colons work.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 day ago (4 children)

When you can smell his colon on your pillow 🥰

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You want pink eye? Cause that's how you get pink eye

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Omg pink is such a pretty colour I'd lovvvvvve that

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Sounds like true love to me

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

not how colons work

You had me scanning the image (of text without alt text: bad, OP! BAD!) for a : pretty hard until I settled on The New York Times message

Breaking News: Susan[…]

for a while. Had me wondering how else The New York Times is supposed to write that, because it looks correct.

This is why quoting exists.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Did you finally find the culprit?

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 6 hours ago

After a while, thus achieving another mild infuriation. 💯

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Sure, but: it was right there all along.

Separately, Elon might be on Earth, but he's also sometimes on earth. Although he's more of an indoors boy.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How would you write that, then?

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

Pretty much the same, but without a colon.

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[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago
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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

My rule with langauge:

If you understand what they’re trying to say, then they did a good enough job expressing themselves.

(Also I love how this post is getting loads of upvotes because people are just seeing Bernie’s message and liking it lol).

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 24 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I think its knot just you understand but how quicker it is to get demeaning it is also important. The more pour spells and grammer makes you to backup and red again, even if you can finally deciver it, the wurst it is.

At some point you give up, but well before that you have every right to be annoyed.

[–] XM34@feddit.org 6 points 21 hours ago

You have no idea, how much I hate you right now!

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[–] radix@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For all we know, in that moment Elon was standing on some dirt, making him the wealthiest person on lower-case earth.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Exactly. So if we want to be pedants, earth or Earth would be fine here. Even if he's in a building, that building is still on the soil. Even if he's flying in an airplane, that airplane is supported by air, which it itself supported by earth. The only way you can't be "on earth" is if you're in space and/or in freefall. And Musk is too much of a coward to climb aboard one of his own rockets.

[–] Rockbear@feddit.dk 3 points 1 day ago

Also, he's definitely on something. Might be earth

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Who names a planet after dirt?

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 11 points 20 hours ago

Most of it isn't even covered in dirt. Should have named it Water, or at least Rock.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My dictionary says it's lowercase. I've only ever seen it in lowercase, unless you're taking about it in the astronomical sense (e.g. "the planet Earth").

See the first entry here. "On earth" is an idiom, and "earth" starts with a lowercase E.

[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

make Felon Musk bankrupt.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

Great job Wisconsin!

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Um ackshully, can you name a person wealthier than Elon Musk that’s ever stood on dirt, loam, soil, silt, or clay?

Checkmate atheists

[–] teft@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Mansa Musa of Mali. His wealth was in the trillions. He basically showed up in Cairo with a bunch of his buddies in tow and spent so much and so lavishly, including just handing out gold to everyone, that he wrecked Egypt's economy for a decade. He owned something like half the world gold reserves at the time.

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

That's kind of a myth. Musa and the Mali empire were certainly wealthy for the time but you can't really compare an emperor in the 14th century with a modern oligarch.

Musa liked to boast about his wealth at every opportunity. Like, he would tell people that gold grows like a plant in Mali while he threw gold bars at them. And all the reports of his immense wealth come from the people he encountered on his pilgrimage.

The amount of gold he brought (18 tons!) would be worth about $1.5B today. That was likely all of the gold the empire had collected during his reign. And it wasn't technically his, it belonged to the empire.

The price of gold in Egypt dropped by about 15%, which was a lot but well within normal fluctuations. He also ran out of gold on the return trip and had to beg for loans which he never repaid.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Technically he is standing on earth unless he is standing on ice.

[–] funbreaker@kbin.earth 4 points 21 hours ago

The Principle of Least Effort always wins in the end.

[–] HatchetHaro@pawb.social 2 points 21 hours ago

i feel like this YT short might help explain it.

i am glad a more liberal judge was elected to the supreme court, but she was backed by the democratic party. this is not a grassroots movement, its backed by an extremely rich party committee. this wasnt a david v goliath.

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