• quindraco@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        What has? The article literally never explains what the fuck it’s talking about. I would assume it’s not referring to the common English definition of turning on cruise control.

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              1 year ago

              By selectively applying it only to the people you were targeting, like most racist-ass laws put on the books by white people in the US.

              See: The gun restrictions Reagan put in place while he was governor of California and POTUS.

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          1 year ago

          I am American; my first language is English.

          I would never define “cruising” as “turning on cruise control”.

          “Cruising around in my beamer” does not mean that I turned on cruise control in a BMW…

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        Yeah cruising in the scenes/area I’m in is hanging out in a public area looking for casual sex, especially of the gay variety. It was killed by a combination of aids, the rise of social acceptance, and grindr over the decades. So yeah this is just a very different thing from what the word means to me