And for a linguist the question is really whether there are native speakers who consider it correct. Here there are millions who say yes.

I think you’d call this elision. Assume that the phrase is originally “the car needs to be washed” but you cut out “to be”, making it into a shorter form. It’s pretty common in language to shorten things to make it faster to speak. Think of the endless contractions in English or perhaps leaving part of a sentence completely unspoken because the content is easily assumed by the interlocutors.

You are very brave to go over there…

Don’t kid yourself–it will eventually become more like Twitter once the entire planet onboards. Decentralization will help a lot, though.

It’s cute how you made it personal for no reason.

Funny enough I learned about it in a linguistics class from a professor out of Michigan. Never heard the concept before and I think a lot of people had their minds blown.

To go after a loose group of reporters from different countries?

They aren’t in the United States. This lawsuit is in France.

Dialect variation. For me, saying “the car needs washed” sounds truly strange but millions and millions of people say it. You’re experiencing similar with this phrase.

I agree that this is the lesson, but it’s bolstered by decades of bad behavior by the previous generations who chose not to leave a livable world for their children.

Sorry, but that was a “kids these days” moment.

I’ve only had two people say they would block me. In both cases it was me asking questions about their comment and them getting angry and not having or wanting to give an answer.

I only block when people get personal for no particular reason.

I shudder when I go to an Apple meeting because they use Webex. (Shudder)

Both sides, gotcha.

If this is true, it might explain so much of why they were so angry.

Gen X had no future, it was all boomers until…oh, it’s still boomers.

I mean, Boomer grandparents did the real lifting if we’re going back…

I have been saying for the past 6 - 8 years that Gen Z is the future, they are different, they are compassionate, etc. My opinion changed on that Tuesday in a bad way.

When you input your password, then your biometrics (faceID, fingerprint, etc) become active. A restart requires you to enter that again. The police can make you put your finger on your phone or look at it, but they can’t make you divulge your password without a court order.

You’ll never know who did the voting. There are some odd people who will just downvote any comment. There are also people who makes bots to do the same. Every chance that some idiot didn’t like that you have an opinion, but it may not be that at all.