My first Beaverton piece

[james_davis_nicoll]

I am torn between squeals of glee and WORSHIP ME AS YOUR GOD.



ChatGPT user delighted to combine sloth with theft

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[elusis]

It is "the New York Times" but one humble-brags about having a "Times piece."

[(Anonymous)]

I've encountered snobs that insist that "Times" or "the Times" in reference to a newspaper can only properly refer to "The Times [of London]". To be clear I mention this just so I can express how provincial I find such people, and how annoyed they get when I call them provincial.

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Nathan H.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a hundred newspapers nicknamed "the Times" - there's only one actually named "the Times." They're being provincial?

Being picky about the Times is deep and irritating pedantry, but "the real [X] is the US [X]" is a very well-worn and deeply annoying internet dynamic and the last few years particularly have made reflexive US cultural hegemony really wearing to those of us who live in the benighted and possibly imaginary "rest of the world."