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Keeping tabs on citizens (discuss.online)
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[–] 72 points 4 months ago (16 children)

literally

Probably not

two weeks in mass.

Bone apple tea!

  • in mass - that's like boycotting Church
  • en masse - as a group
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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    in mass - that’s like boycotting ChurchWhich is not a bad idea, actually. After all the things that the Abrahamic Church had done (and still do in a socially-veiled manner nowadays), especially against the women, boycotting Church is the least we oughta do. All the Sisters and their Daughters who were murdered back in the so-called "witch-hunting" are still awaiting the due historical reparation as I'm writing this.

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  • [–] -4 points 4 months ago* (9 children)

    Now short for in massive quantity. There isn't that much food in stores. Even less when the trucks stop coming. Most power is generated on demand, the moment people stop showing up to work at the generation site and load balancing site it turns off.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    No, “in mass” means you’re physically located in Massachusetts. “En masse” means massive quantity, that’s the point of their post, that’s the expression, its loaner words from French; you’ve never heard anyone say “in mass” in this context in your life, you have been hearing “en masse” incorrectly because your education system failed you.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Goodness, a person makes one error and now the entire education system is in shambles.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Don't let them convince you it's an error, language is descriptive and "mass" to describe a group of people is a common English definition. They are just being pedants.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    I agree, I'm kinda used to it now. People on Lemmy can be very delicate and beautiful flowers. Literally the smallest disturbance from their desire and they can go on a cursing tirade. If one didn't know any better one might think the sky was falling. You should see some of the comment chains I've been through in my short time here. Although two of those people seemed truly disturbed.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    So your solution is to cause a famine and leave people without power during a heatwave?

    Wouldn't it be better to attack things like shareholder value instead of supply chains?

    After overthrowing the billionaire caste, we'll still need those supply chains. You know that, right?

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  • [+] -19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    They weren't speaking french, why did you correct it to french words?

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago*

    En masse is one of the millions of useful expressions stolen by English from other languages. (We call it "borrowed" or "loanwords," but we're not going to give them back!)

    It doesn't literally mean "in mass," which would refer to measuring weight or volume, or could mean being in a Catholic church during a service.

    If you wanted to use a different expression to denote the whole of the working population acting in unison you could, but "en masse" carries some appropriate French revolutionary connotations and avoids the communist implications of "the masses," which could hamper recruiting.

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