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update pls
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Isn't that just how the language works though? Like, it sounds unnatural to say certain nouns without adding "the" to the front
Well the "naturalness" argument feels a bit iffy to me, but in the context of a specific language community, over time, things stick I guess. Like why do germans (I rly should say germanophones since austrians and the swiss do exist) say "der Iran", or "der Jemen"? Who came up with that? Now it probably feels natural to them, but it was never preordained.
Spanish does that too, it's why Das Kapital is called El Capital in Spanish but just Capital in English.
Im sure someone more linguistically minded can give the real explanation but in regards to your Capital example, its a peculiar feature of English in relation to the other western european languages where certain abstract nouns are not used with their articles. Like for example in English you can say "Love wins", but in German you cant say "Liebe gewinnt", you say "Die Liebe gewinnt".
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also its funny cuz nobody gets mad at the germans for saying "die Ukraine". In fact theres a bunch of country names in german that get used with a definite article, like die Slowakei, die Turkei, die Schweiz.
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shouldn't this be reversed?
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I feel bad for using so much water but I need my weekly bath for my mental health
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While Tatyana endorsed the merger as a way to grow the Wildberries business, Vladislav came out publicly against the deal. Enlisting the help of Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin and Putin’s self-described “foot soldier,” Vladislav and Kadyrov released a video in which they accused Russ Outdoor of seizing Wildberries. In the same video, Kadyrov vowed to “return Tatyana to the family and protect a legitimate business.”
lol Russia is not a serious country
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from all the things passed down
from all the apples coming before
damn you now the song is stuck in my head again
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the leftovers. rly good shit.
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yeah the movie didn't rly meet my expectations but it did raise some interesting thematic/lore questions
before my political awakening I just took them at face value. But now they're like time capsules of the fairly shallow and hardly biting political commentary of the era. Specifically im talking about sitcoms that premiered in the late 90s (or early 2000s) and continued thru the 00s. Take Scrubs for example. There's a few episodes where the hospital workers break into camps discussing the Iraq war. Elliott, played by Sarah Chalke, is revealed as a republican. I suppose this mirrors how actual conversations at the time played out but its somewhat endearing how it all seems so quaint looking back. I know watching at the time I was like wow it's refreshing how they're being so political lmao. I think the cringiest when it comes to this is will and grace. There's a few episodes with bush-targeted jokes delivered primarily by debra messing (yuck). And they all have to do with his intelligence. I think the only exceptions are either the shows that did it smartly (for libs anyways) like the first three seasons of Arrested Development or ones that just focused on the domestic/life problems of the characters, like Malcolm in the middle (which is probably the last great working class sitcom) or everybody loves raymond.
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would you rather have stretched jeans and a wife with a dump truck ass or unstretched jeans and a wife with Hank Hill ass? I know which one I'd pick
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keep Blinken sounds like keep blinking. its a pun
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I was hoping you could expand, what factions are they up against? The Clintonites? I don't think there are any who don't follow Obama as well, he did serve two whole terms, and Hilary's credibility was, even if they say otherwise, damaged badly by her loss. I don't think there are any PUMAs left. The so-called "progressives" or the squad? Pfft, hardly able to stop anything, let alone kickbacks.
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wait rly? How tho
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"second time as farce" buddy you had no fucking idea
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yeah I think Trump will in all likelihood be the first repub since dubya to clinch Nevada. As others have noted, NM is wrong lol. Michigan I think Biden will be able to scrape by, despite the loss of the Arab vote. Trump I think will be able to win back Arizona and Georgia, thereby winning the election. So it will 265 to 272, which I think would be the closest election since 1850 something
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I've played the first 20 mins so far but I enjoyed them. It is basically battle for bikini bottom with a few extra abilities. You can only play as spongebob tho, no character swapping this time.
Playing spongebob the cosmic shake (yes yes low-rent licensed game, look life sucks and I'm getting dopamine any way I can) and I don't know why Manta Fe just had me burst out laughing. Am I going insane?
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tekken and street fighter feel like they have the most barefoot fighters so probs them lol
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discovered this band when spotify recommended me one of the songs from their previous effort walkman, which is now one of my favorite albums. Recently they released their new self-titled album, which is I think is basically a sequel to walkman.
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Absolutely loved playing the recent Tomb Raider remastered pack because of this. No HUD, no map, you're just plopped into a level and you figure it out from there. Such a breath of fresh air in comparison to the overstimulating, bloated modern games
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thai airways had a very serviceable shrimp with elbow macaroni. I also rly liked the sandwich they served on this defunct Ukrainian airline, it had puff pastry and the filling was I think just meat and potatoes? But yeah that's probably the best plane food I've had. Turkish and Lufthansa have also been pretty good in my opinion.
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I mean I don't think it was entirely her decision. She was probably forced to stop by higher ups
I'm a little perturbed by the meme phrasing in the title and how quickly I recognized it. But I guess they saw the opportunity and took it, even at the risk of looking unserious, in my view.
what are things in your life you never got an answer to? I'll give an example: In college I had a semester abroad in Germany. A week before we had to go back home someone took a huge dump in the laundry room. We never ended up finding out who it was lol. And not that it's haunted me, but it just pops up occaisionally in my brain and I'm like "damn who was it"?
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from here: https://www.axios.com/2024/02/08/schumer-republicans-senate-ukraine-border-vote Seriously this is the stuff nightmares are made of
Now there's been some discussion that Biden wins the EC but Trump wins the popular vote. So there's something called the [interstate voting compact](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact#History). It's an agreement among states that they will award their EC votes to whoever is the eventual popular vote winner, even if that candidate loses that state's vote. Its been signed into law by 16 states (all blue) including California, Oregon, Washington and DC. Can you imagine how glorious that would be? When, if this happens, the libs see that they have to technically vote for Trump? Idk the psychic rage might make it enough for them to do their own Jan 6. Most likely they will cry and huff and puff with no recourse of course, which would also be satisfying. God I am relishing it even now.
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> A court in Thailand has ruled that the biggest party in parliament violated the constitution when it sought to change a strict law against insulting the country’s monarchy. >The reformist Move Forward Party (MFP) finished first in last year’s election on a progressive platform that included a proposal to amend the lese majeste law that outraged Thailand’s conservative elite. >The Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday the plan showed “an intent to separate the monarchy from the Thai nation, which is significantly dangerous to the security of the state quite disheartening. Thailand is a beautiful, promising country that is held back by a system of rule that should have been abolished long ago. Hopefully the Thai people put an end to it someday.
One of the most well-established patterns in measuring public opinion is that every generation tends to move as one in terms of its politics and general ideology. Its members share the same formative experiences, reach life’s big milestones at the same time and intermingle in the same spaces. So how should we make sense of reports that Gen Z is hyper-progressive on certain issues, but surprisingly conservative on others? The answer, in the words of Alice Evans, a visiting fellow at Stanford University and one of the leading researchers on the topic, is that today’s under-thirties are undergoing a great gender divergence, with young women in the former camp and young men the latter. Gen Z is two generations, not one. In countries on every continent, an ideological gap has opened up between young men and women. Tens of millions of people who occupy the same cities, workplaces, classrooms and even homes no longer see eye-to-eye. In the US, Gallup data shows that after decades where the sexes were each spread roughly equally across liberal and conservative world views, women aged 18 to 30 are now 30 percentage points more liberal than their male contemporaries. That gap took just six years to open up
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> The state plans to carry out the first U.S. execution via nitrogen hypoxia with Kenneth Smith, *who survived an earlier attempt to execute him by lethal injection* Death to America, and death to the South in particular. Scorch that motherfucking earth.
or is there just a sense of please let it die lmao. Fede alvarez seems like a passable director, I'm hoping he pushes out something decent. I'm a bit warmer on the upcoming fx series. I like noah hawley well enough, I think he's up to the job. Hopefully we get a story that really expands on the anticapitalist themes.
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not that there was any point before, but there rly isnt any smidgen of a point to voting left at this stage
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