CAD for sure. I can pretty-up any substation drawing you throw at me.

You’re correct that it’s not grammatically wrong, but a subtle semantic mis-match. Let’s bring in the difference between “every time” and “whenever”. While “when” and “every time” are interchangeable, “whenever” and “every time” are not. “Every time” is exact and without fail, while “whenever” implies unpredictability or indifference to the exact location.

“When (strongly implied every time) I go to the theater (exact location), I get popcorn.”

“Every time (explicitly) I go to the theater (exact location), I get popcorn.”

“Whenever (unpredictable, indifferent) I go to the theater (exact location -mismatch with unpredictability) I get popcorn”

Does that make sense?

Bill Gates would never lose out on $$ by banning access to use windows from Europe.

You’ve used it correctly! An incorrect usage would be:

“Whenever I go to the cinema, I get popcorn.”

Once people catch onto your website and find out you can actually predict death on some people you’ll also become rich, so that’s nice.

The now ultra-common usage of “whenever”, when they actually mean “when”.

I can’t fucking stand it. But it’s everywhere now. I have no idea how it got so common but I’m surrounded by people who use it incorrectly.

NJ would like a word with you.

This is one I can get behind.

I mean, technically yes, but also no, because Microsoft is a private company, so it would be up to Bill Gates, and Bill Gates wouldn’t do that.

I’d probably stop wearing skirts.

9/11, 2008, MTHFR diagnosis, COVID shutdowns.

Idk, it sounded pleasant.

Just learned from my neighbor that the back door of the house I just bought floods during summer monsoons, so I’m going to spend the next few weekends digging a trench out to the street to give any future downpours a path away from my back door.

Nice! You planning to celebrate?

I didn’t confuse anything, this isn’t a pol sci class, so I don’t care what is or is not considered a pol sci term. Yes, they are mixed and some are subtypes of others

Democracy is an umbrella term. These are the types of democracy the US is:

1. Representative Democracy

2. Constitutional Democracy

3. Presidential Democracy

4. Liberal Democracy

Types of Democracy the US is not:

1. Direct Democracy

2. Parliamentary Democracy

3. Illiberal Democracy

4. Participatory Democracy

5. Social Democracy

So yes, it’s a democracy.

The Americas is what you mean, vs America, which implies the US. If you want to include Canada and Mexico, you say “North America”. It’s not difficult.

I’ve been all over the world, and no one has ever been confused when I say I’m from America. This push to make it seem like it’s confusing is ridiculous.

My parents chose each other. Are they good people? Sure. But they had a ton of problems and split when I was in high school.

My grandmother, my dad’s mom, she was a terrible person. Very difficult to be around. I’m sure that’s why my dad has the issues he does. He ended up abandoning our family, and he’s very… Well, he’s passive-aggressive and will do almost anything to avoid conflict. Which doesn’t sound terrible, but that means he avoids us when he thinks we’ll confront him with anything. It was frustrating for a very long time but now I just accept that we’ll never have a close relationship because of it.

He remarried about 10 years ago now. We get along okay except she’s an alcoholic and has a really awful temper. After a specific incident in which she screamed at me over something very minor, I decided I was done trying to foster a relationship with her and now it’s very at arms length. Oh well.

My mom, she and I are close but her issues are very much wrapped up in my brother, who also has issues. They’re very co dependent, and my brother takes advantage of her. He sucks her dry of resources and refuses to do anything on his own. He’s in his late 30’s and it’s still going on.

No, people who choose each other can be very toxic.

Well, no, there are clinical forms of depression, which are reoccurring forms, and then there’s bouts of depression, which generally are caused by a specific event or change. Those types usually have fixes, but they’re worse than “general sadness”.

There’s a major push coming to ban depression meds. I had long, drawn-out conversations with people who genuinely think exercise will fix things.

Yeah, for people without clinical depression, maybe.