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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

The more I see posts that say "I don't get it", the older I feel. I guess I never realised how much Larson's comics reflected and commented on the time they were written

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I don't understand this move. ULA has so few flights these days that it is difficult to even be a fan. Unbelievable

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

John Bolton. I only want to hear from this guy if he's on the witness stand. I can't believe he still gets interviews.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sam is a hobbit of focus, commitment, and sheer fucking will

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Stocks, bonds, annuities

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

the margin of his election was thin enough that not trampling over the progressive side of the party would have kept him out of office

There, see. There's the fault in your argument. The Democratic party can't seem to stop trampling over progressives

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The expert quoted has had quite a life:

After earning a BA in English literature from UCLA, Austad left academia for a number of years during which among other things, he drove a taxi cab in New York City, worked as a newspaper reporter, and trained lions for television and movies.

He sounds pretty cool.

I admit I looked him up only because his view challenged what I've been seeing in reporting on studies done in this area. I've seen what seems like a trend in studying and comparing changes in lifespan and healthspan in male and female subjects (in both human and mouse). I suspect I am suffering from some recency bias, but it really does seem to me like studies in this area are better at teasing out sex differences than in non-longevity lines of research.

Anyway, thought I'd mention the expert's colorful past

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Eye sea. Ewe our sew wright. Make language mistake non possible. Easy awl understand every won know matter what. Y try harder

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It is an often used and well known colloquialism

It is a bastardization of a well known colloquialism

To a non US English speaker it would understandably sound strange

To English speakers who've heard it and have given it any thought, it just sounds careless, or stupid

If someone were to point out something like this to me, I'd just say "oops", learn from it, and move on. I wouldn't double down on it. It's like defending 'would of', or 'supposably' - obvious mishearings of other words. People know what you mean; it is just that you are also telling them something you probably don't mean to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ha! According to the supreme court, Biden could explain all of this to Johnson and the rest of the republicans using guns.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If you can care less, why mention it? It is an empty statement, supporting nothing. It has no rhetorical impact at all, except that reinforces the idea in your audience that you haven't even a good grasp of the language you are using.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Trump has been overcharging the secret service for years. Why wouldn't efforts to limit his grifting be in place?

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