What definitions are in universal use?

No definition is in universal use.

meant to say gender when he said sex

He meant to say exactly what he said, and it was incorrect. He was not using your definition of sex. He was using it in the same sense as “I had a sex change operation”.

Or “Now I want to change the sex on my birth certificate”. Do you also chime in to inform people it’s wrong to do that?

Your definitions of sex and gender are not in universal use, and they are not the definitions used by Sunak. So his statement was not “correct”, because what it meant was not correct.

it’s something you mostly see among the poor.

It is, until it isn’t.

And when it isn’t, we should all cheer.

What a weird take. Nobody is punishing people who smoke.

I see what you did there…

Nothing is infinite. But fresh water is renewable, which means it can be used sustainably.

What did the US gain in Vietnam?

What did the USSR gain in Afghanistan?

Superpowers have a long history of leaving quagmires with their tails tucked between their legs.

The USSR and the US both backed down in Afghanistan, gaining nothing.

The US also backed down in Vietnam, gaining nothing.

Ukraine is Russia’s Vietnam. They will leave Ukraine when they realize they will never gain anything by staying.

We already have a hostile response, so the golden bridge is no longer useful.

¡At least two of those languages have the same problem!

Or, as millions of people have done, you could learn to read from right to left.

¿And don’t you hate how US punctuation is at the end? ¿If you read an entire sentence, but you don’t even know it is a question until you’re at the end, then how do you know which intonation to use? ¡English is subpar and something should be done about that!

It must be tiring at work waiting for the clock to finally strike 00:5pm.

This was a civil fraud case so incarceration is not on the table. Just huge fines and the end of his company.

Jail is still possible after future trials though.

Well, there is definitely an anti-assassination sentiment. Probably why Saudi Arabia doesn’t get much love either.

“Very” unique indicates being unique in more ways and/or in more severe ways.

The term you’re looking for is “very unusual”.

Similarly, being “very pregnant”

LOL, ok now say to a pregnant woman, “I don’t think you’re very pregnant”. Please report back to us with her response.

I didn’t downvote, but nothing is “very unique” for the same reason that nobody is “very pregnant”.

Either it is unique or it is not.

They are fine with their jobs because they have other jobs that pay them.

Your idea would mean the end of professional musicians. Music performance would be mainly for people with lots of leisure time, something rich people would do as a hobby. Like playing polo.

If your job stopped paying you, and told you to rely on donations from your clients/customers, then I’m pretty sure you’d find a different job.

In the movie industry, everyone usually signs a work for hire contract that specifies who will have the rights to the completed film.

However, in a recent case the director (Alex Merkin) did not sign a contract and then tried to claim copyright afterwards. The court said that directors have no inherent copyright over film:

We answer that question in the negative on the facts of the present case, finding that the Copyright Actʹs terms, structure, and history support the conclusion that Merkinʹs contributions to the film do not themselves constitute a ʺwork of authorshipʺ amenable to copyright protection. … As a general rule, the author is the party who actually creates the work, that is, the person who translates an idea into a fixed, tangible expression entitled to copyright protection. … But a directorʹs contribution to an integrated ʺwork of authorshipʺ such as a film is not itself a ʺwork of authorshipʺ subject to its own copyright protection.