I don't think anyone does.

And sure, other languages may have different demonyms for us based on their name for the country, but "American" has been the English one for a very long time.

Acting like your fighting evil American hegemony with a neologism feels silly.

Honest question:

Have you ever or would you ever, as a citizen of a North American country that isn't the USA, refer to yourself as "American?" Have you known anyone else from the Americas that does so?

I'm not aware of anyone, but I'm genuinely curious.

How dare you make me like something Andre Dickens has done.

He definitely deserves praise for this, but non-Atlanta folks need to keep in mind that he's the mayor who oversaw Cop City. The Atlanta Way is corporate capture of the local machine, and he's an eager participant.

I just assume any leading Silicon Valley guy is now a Nazi. Saves time and still batting 1.000. I'll apologize to the hypothetical non-fash techdork if it comes up.

Oh, those are the ones.

The insults from the mandatory swearing episode will live with me forever.

At the boardgame con, Essen Spiel, as I was demonstrating a card game. I had tried to keep up with some Germans and Brits at a pub the night before.

I bolted from the booth and made the long walk to the bathroom, holding my mouth shut as I kept choking it back down. Didn't puke on the con floor!

Yours is the path of hand mutilation.

But Kendra's final point is that the people pushing to bring these plants back online see regulation as a moral evil and have a government in place that agrees with them.

*I* don't care about their cost to operate these things. I care about Sam Altman causing a Chernobyl here because he does.

But only because of the regulations.

that said i do think del toro’s frankenstein erred by cutting the creature’s canonical performance of Puttin On The Ritz