Some Anti-AI people be like:

It's a fair peeve, since it calls back to Soviet era bullshit.

But it's gonna take a few more decades before it dies out now that Ukraine is the forefront of resistance, and is likely to be. I think it would have been over and done soon were it not for that. Only older gen-x and older were really using "the Ukraine" on a regular basis that I could tell. Us gen-xers were phasing it out overall just because it's one less word to type.

But with the news being crammed full of both naming versions, it's gonna drag it out

"The" in those names is referring to the structure of the state, rather than the name; "The United States", "The Union" (Maldives is actually "The Republic of the Maldives").

From wikipedia:

In the English-speaking world during most of the 20th century, Ukraine (whether independent or not) was referred to as "the Ukraine".[19] This is because in Russian, the word ukraina means 'borderland' so the definite article would be natural in the English language; this is similar to Nederlanden, which means 'low lands' and is rendered in English as 'the Netherlands'.

It means like "the edge" - which is what it was - like "the borderlands". But plenty of places have the in the title optionally

When it was a part of the USSR it was mainly called "The Ukraine". Since independence, dropping "the" is preferred. But older people will have heard it called "The Ukraine" most of their lives.

In German we use the article only for feminine countries. Yes, everything has a gender in German, even countries. We say "Die Ukraine", but just "England" and not "Das England".

But English has lost its grammatical genders some 800 years ago, I guess that's too long ago for being the reason.

The United States of America, The Soviet Union, The Maldives,

I'm sure there are others

Well we do say The Gambia, The United States, The Republic of Korea...

They absolutely can address it, they just don’t. YouTube still offers that feature; creators can mark optional points in their videos that are good places to run ads. There is a frustratingly high percentage of creators (at least the ones I watch) who don’t take advantage of this, leaving YouTube to run ads mid-sentence. You’d think that people who are trying to get paid from ad revenue would take a few minutes to optimize their placement, but most do not.

It's actually kind of fitting that someone who is against abortion played a mother of five children

I honestly don't recall ever seeing this trope but its likely in shows and I just gloss over it.

Yeah, "retroactive jealousy" is a very dumb trope that should seldom if ever be used in a story, IMO. Tropes aren't inherently bad, most stories are full of them. But some of them are weak sauce, and this is one of them. I tried to find an entry for it on tvropes.org and couldn't find one, which is surprising. It's a fairly common trope, and they have a lot of jealousy-themed tropes in their database. Could be a skill issue on my part and I just didn't find it.

Yeah, that's one of the idiot plot tools that bothers me too. It happens in real life, but hopefully not in people who have entered adulthood.

Not wanting to hear about it? That's fine.
Irrational feelings of retroactive possessiveness or jealousy? Also fine.
Wanting some relationship reassurance? Also totally fine.

The key part is being mature and recognizing that it's about your needs, and not the other person's behavior. Being upset with someone else because of the above is unreasonable. Letting them know you'd like a reassurance isn't.

People be silly sometimes though.

Sure but maybe we should learn from somewhere else than tv shows mixed with advertisements.

It's almost like we're social mammals and learn all our behaviors by watching, copying, and reacting to each other...

I have been thinking about this one (and actually a bunch of other similar BS tropes) recently.. I have remembered a bunch of times people in real life have taken these tropes in as "life rules" and started to behave by them after seeing these on tv or movies. It is really, really weird. Not just this dating thing, but like anything from wearing same or even just similar clothes for two days in row, that's no way an issue in real life with sane people. But some people see a character react that way in a made-up tv show and suddenly start repeating it in real life?

I agree completely. If that happens in real life, it should be a huge fucking red flag.

I noticed comedians do this a lot but only highlighting one key sentence out of a bit. It's pretty funny and there's something tickling about hearing something fresh in your memory.

That's where it's being overused the most. No judgement on merits, just kneejerk insistence that anything related is disqualified from redeeming qualities.

I am fine with it being used in the context of AI generated content.

Anything else and I agree.

All meaning has been stomped from it, as some deeply boring people latched onto it as a haughty dismissal. You know they're deeply boring because any form of pushback, however gentle or reasoned, sees them double down and smug it up. They get to feel like they're participating in some grand moral crusade just by parroting a monosyllabic insult until they sound like dogs taking a drink.

There was a brief window where it caught on for specific AI content - the zero-effort spam shoveled toward you without even looking it over. But the self-proclaimed haters spat it at any use of AI, as a one-drop rule. Like an award-winning video game leaving a single temporary texture is indistinguishable from a Facebook post of a little girl hugging her pet tiger with all three arms.

That gleeful overuse has spread beyond any useful distinction. It doesn't even reliably convey 'I don't like it.' It's all so Aladeen.

I agere.

I'm on a crusade to emphasize the importance of everyone proofreading before submitting anything in writing.

Typos make the writer appear careless and/or uneducated. And make the reader do mental gymnastics.

Please stop the madness.

It's a really common tpyo.