Per se is a Latin phrase meaning “in itself”. To see if you’re using it properly, replace per se in your sentence with “in itself” and see if it makes sense.

Same! Crazy to think that it’s been that long. My first real Linux OS was Kubuntu Dapper Drake.

Oh, so you were only doing it to be trendy? Weak.

Keep Windows in a virtual machine where it can’t cause any trouble.

I switched back to Windows, because Mandrake was frustrating, but Kubuntu got me back a few years later. It helped that I was into Richard Stallman and the philosophy of free software. There were a few Linux supporters in the local punk scene, too.

“I’ve heard it…and now I’m ignoring it.”

So it’s okay to kill children, because they might be Hamas? Do you hear yourself?

I wish it was optional. When I do a search, the AI response is right at the top. If I want AI advice, I’ll go ask AI. I don’t use a search engine to get answers from AI!

The current administration is the one keeping TikTok alive in the US. Trump has delayed the ban twice now.

You think that Israel would be Ukraine in this analogy?

If they were really serious about not being evil, they would’ve formed as a public benefit corporation (which they did not).

Those aren’t opinions I would care about in the first place. Somebody thinks you should be watching ads? WTF?

HAMBERDER

if it truly were a perfect reign I wouldn’t mind at all

You wouldn’t care about somebody else having total control over you?

Keep in mind that idioms follow their own rules. Down to earth, what on earth, and move heaven and earth do not capitalize the planet, and four corners of the earth or salt of the earth take the definite article.

“On earth” (e.g. “richest man on earth”) is one of those idioms, so the E is lowercase. See here.

on earth

used for emphasis. What on earth are you doing?; the stupidest man on earth.

It’s a bit confusing, but they aren’t literally referring to “the planet Earth” in an astronomical sense. If you were writing a sci-fi story and comparing the wealth of the richest man on Earth to, say, the richest man on Mars, then it would be capitalized.

It isn’t even an error, though. It’s just wrong. “Earth” should be lowercase. I can understand being pedantic, but pedantic and wrong is super irritating.

So, “Breaking News Susan Crawford”?

How would you write that, then?

My dictionary says it’s lowercase. I’ve only ever seen it in lowercase, unless you’re taking about it in the astronomical sense (e.g. “the planet Earth”).

See the first entry here. “On earth” is an idiom, and “earth” starts with a lowercase E.

Dave’s not here, man!