“The postcapitalist, technofeudal world isn't a world without capitalism, then. It's a world where capitalists are subservient to feudalists (‘cloudalists’ in Varoufakis’s thesis), as are the rest of us the cloud peons, from the social media users and performers who fill the technofuedalists’ siloes with ‘content’ to the regular users whose media diet is dictated by the cloudalists’ recommendation systems.” By @b92dcc07https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/28/cloudalists/
@f42fdd5b I've never had to think about it before, so thanks for starting that rabbit hole! I hope it helps (not that grammatical rules make much sense themselves a lot of times).
@f42fdd5b I do’t know if you’ve gotten a good explanation yet, and I certainly don’t have the official grammar verbiage to use, but think of it like this:
The pair (or group or bus or building) is a “container.” The bus goes, singluar. The bus full of boys goes, singular. What’s in the bus? A boy? Or a bunch of boys? So the singular/plural is not about what’s inside the “container.” The container can hold multiple, plural items.
At least that’s how it helps me think of it!
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