Drusas

Yes. I have spent time living in the south and I have family from there.

Your rant has nothing to do with my comment. I was talking about superficial friendliness versus rudeness.

I don’t disagree, but the question was whether or not it’s rude. So that’s what I stuck to.

I grew up in notoriously rude New Jersey. You might be surprised to learn that we also had a similar code, we’re just less tactful about it. People in that region are assholes but genuinely kind, helpful people. Kind of like the opposite of the south.

I think you are deeply mistaken in believing that people can be on their phones and not be bored at the same time.

As some others have said, no, it’s not rude to decline. Whether or not it’s rude is in how you word it. You were rude in this particular instance.

The ones that you call neutral, I would say are still rude.

More like c/actuallyinfuriating.

“Stop noticing that we work on a lot of evil projects.”

Learning that there is no word for “it” was one of the biggest challenges for me when I first started learning Japanese.

In English, there is never an implied subject (grammatically speaking), unlike in many other languages.

I don’t know if this helps explain it to him, but it could help him to understand the concept. Verbs always need a subject, and if you contextually know what that subject is, you can use “it” (or he, her, etc) instead of being more specific.

“Raining” could be a full sentence in some languages, but in English, you need to specify that the weather is raining, but we can just say “it is raining”.

I’m a little surprised that your boyfriend didn’t learn this while he was learning the language. Did he self-learn? Going through a book on English grammar might be helpful for him.

Just wow. Grats on electing that person, Iowa.

Laryngeal dystonia. It’s a medical condition which he has no control over.

I have dystonia in my hand. Should I be made fun of for that?

Making fun of his voice is ableist garbage. Focus on something that’s actually wrong with him, like almost everything he believes and is trying to do

Yeah. It’s a medical condition. We shouldn’t make fun of people for medical conditions. There’s enough wrong with him that you can focus on without resorting to that.

Also applies to his voice.

Louisiana has become the first state in the country to adopt the federal government’s new voter maintenance database, known as DOGE short for the Department of Government Efficiency.

No, DOGE is not a database. How does this garbage get published?

Nazis are well known for having thrown slices of cheese at things.