Just fyi, it’s “sweep it under the rug.” Swiping is a doing small motion, used mostly for smart phones and sleight of hand, whereas sweeping can be a much larger motion, and often involves a broom or a careless aspect. My husband has the best non-native English I’ve ever heard from someone who didn’t live in an anglophone country as a kid, and he cannot keep those two and swab straight, so I’d consider it a pretty easy mistake to make :)

I hate accidentally ending up as mayor on vacation

What???

They jailed 1% of the population and devastated an entire generation at the very least, often for nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time

https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-bukele-central-america-crime-gangs-60c3a34c571dfdbdf0a203deb85abf71

The CEO of Merck should have to explain that to the victims in person. They should really get in there, offer a supportive hug if it feels right.

I ate your onion and was about to quibble about the New Hampshire accent.

D:

Though to be fair, if I had the skills and inclination to do that, there’s not a chance I’d do it normally

Immigrants are over 15% of the population, of course they commit crimes. 8% of rapes are reported, wanna bet whether they’re more frequently reported when they’re committed by immigrants?

Well, Herr Sellner, perhaps your perspective is slanted. Somehow people still make their opinions heard.

As an immigrant in Germany, people who don’t support immigrants are not cowed by their government, don’t worry. They love to tell me about it. Maybe if you were an immigrant for a day, you would see things differently as well.

The Sri Lankan foreign ministry came to Ms Arunatilaka’s defence and said she had followed government-approved rates in paying the wages. “The allowance approved by the ministry as the salary of the employee has been paid to her,” a ministry statement said.

“The ministry is satisfied that the said salary was paid to the domestic assistant by the employer as mutually agreed.”

That’s not at all completely fucked up or anything.

Tja

Sorry, I couldn’t help it

I don’t think a lot of countries would welcome Russians who only left high ranking military positions out of cowardice.

falsely claims that abortion increases risk of breast cancer

Ironically, they were close to a point that might actually support their views. Birth control does increase the risk of breast and cervical cancer. It also lowers ovarian, endometrial, and colon cancer risk, but they’re not presenting complete information either way, so they could just ignore those parts.

Thread got removed for me, possibly because I swore, but I don’t think it’s productive for the victim unless they seek it out. It’s too easy to load it with double meaning and use it as an opportunity to hurt them further. The only way to avoid that would be to use boilerplate language that doesn’t mean anything.

I absolutely don’t suggest a private apology! He should just leave her the hell alone forever

It’s still just hanging there, over her head, even if nobody expects an answer.

I’ve never heard anyone take a stance against a public apology before. This is honestly a very strange stance.

Weird, most of the people I’ve talked to while witnessing public apologies agree that they’d feel awful to receive. I don’t really talk about it in other scenarios, so I don’t know how common it is.

It means she has to decide if she’ll listen to it, when and how she’ll be able to process it, and whether she forgives him. All of that in public? Not a chance in hell I’d want my rapist to do that.

I disagree with that. There’s no need to put the victim on the spot like that. True remorse definitely doesn’t involve rejecting culpability like that though.

Yeah, it’s better than starving to death or being evicted, but this is certainly not ideal for a newborn. It’s not the mom’s fault, but it still has an effect.