I’ve only seen this expressed in single statement messages, rarely emails or more complex message communication. Periods tend to only be useful for separating standalone statements with sentence complexity, so people may not use them when there is just one statement containing a small word count.

In fact, this is a grammatically consistent behaviour in formal English. As an example, the proper use of a period in bullet points is that they are not used unless the bullet point contained other punctuation marks earlier which increase their reading complexity to a more formal sentence rather than a quick statement. When we message people, we are often just speaking in an exchange of single bullet points due to the inefficiencies of soft keyboards.

If we go into further detail, periods come into play—though, some times we just switch to voice for a more robust and regular style of communication. Similarly, when we use physical keyboards, the speed and ease of them tends to have our spoken complexity go up and subsequently so does the requirement for periods to be used, and they are.

Placing other statement stoppers that are not periods are simply voluntary markers to underscore sentiment of that statement. They honestly have more place in such context as they’re providing actual purpose without the need to expand into multiple sentences or explanation on the slow soft key medium. In that sense, it is also not too dissimilar to and old timer complaining about telegrams using broken English.

You are speaking to me as if this is my direct opinion, my words, and that I have a stake in anything. I’ve just passed on the sentiment of those I lived alongside around most of Australia at the time. I can share the opinion, but I don’t have the right to form it and hold it as though it is mine.

So, you will have to travel to change these people—just as the Australian government once tried—or accept them for it. In doing so, maybe realise that 300+ first nations should never be placed under a single umbrella term and thought of as such. This was, after all, a contributor to why your amendment to the constitution had pushback from Aunties and Uncles around the country. Again, you’d have to take that one up with them, not me.

If I am to share a personal opinion with you, though, it is simply that the world has made it clear to me; bad people always conduct themselves with the same nature and behaviour. Strangely, there are those that think it’s okay because they hide behind the mask of good intent. But at the end of the day, they’re the same people and their cause, whether good or bad, means little at that point.

You asked for my opinion, but the toxicity was clear that I wasn’t going to give it. But since you’ve just said that well, here it is…

I spent years in Australia, much of it in rural areas you’d probably label as “Aboriginal communities”, as such the major city folk did, though in reality they were made up of all sorts of people. No one I knew framed life around skin colour or the actions of British colonists long before any of us were born.

While I was there, Australia Day was of contention, and it’s unusual to see it still is. An elder I worked with once put it plainly: colonial dates—Gregorian, Julian, whatever—hold little meaning because they aren’t connected to their culture and lived reality. They did not care and it was hard for them to. More broadly, I was taught that the country is shared, taught, and enjoyed with respect for all living things. That outlook helped me feel at home in a place that was intimidating at first, until I was welcomed in. And if you’ve travelled, you’d know this isn’t unique to Australia, it’s common across indigenous cultures impacted by European colonisation, especially outside Eurasia. A disassociation with the things of different cultures, yet are still having to have them shoved at the forefront and be told how to be about them.

What also struck was how openly critical they were of some Aboriginal activists. They saw them as loud, clueless, and often doing more harm than good. Creating social division to offload what someone once called "the First Fleet guilt” which passes through the generations. It was clear they didn’t want to be spoken for, particularly when those actions clashed with their culture and other’s cultures.

Based on your behaviour—both earlier and now—you appear to ve that type of person. British culture was never a part of them and never will be, yet you treat it as central because it’s central to you. You’ve even gone on to attack a list of people in ways that draw harder lines between groups, when both Aboriginal culture and broader Australian culture aim for the opposite.

The downvote was for you.

Knowing what I know, it’s a real shame to see the energy you put out in this post, knowing it could’ve been spent on so much more things helpful to those communities. But drill down a few layers and I suspect to find it was always about you and not them.

It is many things. Institutional misogyny can be a cause for some.

per se “by or in itself or themselves; intrinsically.”

My female friend had a female doctor try to talk her out of a contraceptives prescription; that she was 28 and should be having babies…

It’s not a misogyny thing, per se, rather just people that define their lives by the templates supplied by societal stereotypes. Never take advice from a person that doesn’t think for themself.

I doubt Adobe execs know who he is, and if they did they wouldn’t care. They don’t talk in “millions” lol

Yep. Did this recently actually lol.

But also commonly known as a war thing, done to render the enemy’s land infertile. Can’t grow food for a while and stuff.

Neither of these things really make much sense in context, though.

I’m guessing something like most of the magnets contain the plasma, but some transfer energy off it?

By far. We didn’t get to be #1 by fucking around, and we didn’t get to be #1 without all that dominating evolution lingering around. We’re so good at it, we’re predators to ourselves because there’s no prey left to dominate. Every other species dies farmed or as a hobby.

But I can say, that if I were die be prey to something, I’d rather it be to a human. Everything else starts eating you before you’re even dead lol.

iirc John Hammond covers this in the book. I was so young, but something is triggering it for me. Could just be the subconscious trying to protect grade 4 nostalgia, though.

Hell, I could’ve picked that up off playing Jurassic World Evolutions in the last six months and it’s backpedal lore.

Whatever it is, Michael Crichton was no idiot.

I think that’s specific to mammals. Just off the top of my head…

Invertebrates? No. All out

Fish? No. Also a Hammerhead would’ve really sold this comic lol.

Birds? No. Though, even on the side they do often have a tilt toward frontal in a lot of predatory birds. It could be argued…

Reptiles? No.

Amphibians? No. There’s no even trying to place rules on that optical chaos.

Mammals? Yeah, pretty much. Can’t think of an outlier but I’m sure there’s plenty of obvious ones.

Edit’ Ah, there we go. Of course marine mammals are an exception. But back in land, as too are llamas. Makes you wonder…what are the llamas plotting?

Hot property for nesting birds.

we already had meters before we knew the speed of light.

It’s true.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the metric system.

Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Yeah, it’s the parents. Their views are passed on with every minute in the household. Children absorb.

Mine brain just does 0.75 × 4.

Thought process was…

1. Get 1% = 0.75
2. Double it = 1.5
3. Double it = 3

Consultancy firms have been cut out of government. The parasites have targeted the next two most naive and inexperienced industries; academia and NFP.

That’s any smart device. Unless you’re the one.doimg the updates.yoirself, they will all become obsolete as technology evolves. This is the case here too; sounds they just don’t have enough people using them to justify figuring out how to keep them working as new devices and platforms roll on. 9.5 years is an alright run, comparatively.

That’s my point.

You’re a very easy group of people to control. You never do anything and the situation you’re currently in is a direct result of that. It’ll keep getting worse, trust me. Why would it not?

Yeah! That’ll teach 'em!