shemtay

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by shemtay 1mo ago
> perennially underfunded I remember voting to fund high speed rail, and the funding was quite generous...
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by shemtay 6mo ago
If I saw that in any other context I would have assumed it was a low budget special effect--mostly due the spray of rainbow sparkles when the module separates from the base.
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by shemtay 11mo ago
teenagers carrying and using guns in baltimore actually is a real problem
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by shemtay 11mo ago
why the tourniquet?
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by shemtay 11mo ago
sometimes professionals need to fix shit and need exacting clarity
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by shemtay 1y ago
Words of Latin origin are identifiable at a glance, and homonymic collisions are thereby avoided -- Caeser, seizer of the day
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by shemtay 1y ago
yes, i've seen that done in videos of streetfights.
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by shemtay 1y ago
Christianity began as an episode of Undercover Boss, so it makes perfect sense.
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by shemtay 1y ago
i had the same experience. my solution was to configure youtube kids to only show my whitelist of mannually approved videos.
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by shemtay 1y ago
is it not true though that activity/threshholds of dopamine synapses can be globally or semi-globally up and down regulated?
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by shemtay 1y ago
i would think some of our taboo words that a re borderline illegal and I am scared to even type the first letter of with asterixes because i am on a work computer
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by shemtay 1y ago
If I could change one thing about Duolingo, it would be to allow the user to turn off all the gamification completely. I don't care about fake internet gems, knowing how to speak Chinese (or whatever) is it's own reward, so stop w
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by shemtay 1y ago
If you peruse the comments here, quite a few people seem to have been confused on this point
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by shemtay 1y ago
@dang the article does not seem to imply that molecular oxygen was found. maybe retitle to "Oxygen element" or "Atomic oxygen"?
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by shemtay 2y ago
Is the apple in the logo splashing into "wine dark sea"?
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by shemtay 2y ago
Thou and Thee are nominative and objective cases. Same for You and Ye. The formality/informality distinction is between You/Ye and Thou/Thee. Plural 2nd person used to formally address a single individual came to English from
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by shemtay 2y ago
Tautologically, each student at a university who is a blood relative of a graduate of said university has a social network that shares a node with the university's formal network. "Social capital" is a term of art in sociolog
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by shemtay 2y ago
Also, the presence of multigenerational participants in an institution help it to develop unique traditions and culture that improve it in ways that are hard to articulate and measure, which I will artlessly describe as the opposite of the
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by shemtay 2y ago
role -> the role of flight engineer roll -> do a barrel roll
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by shemtay 3y ago
In all fairness, prior to the UK being the UK, it was governed by a different set of bloody noble rivalries.
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by shemtay 4y ago
IANAEuropean. But, it has been observed that in Europe men of Middle Eastern extraction have subjected European women to sexual assault and harassment at much higher rates than men of a local background, causing women to feel unsafe in cont
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by shemtay 4y ago
Interesting! Any knowledge of a corresponding female social phenomenon being similarly characterized?
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by shemtay 4y ago
If memory serves correctly, after the famous mafia hit “St Valentine’s Day Massacre” in Chicago with an at the time shocking body count of 7, civilian access to then state of the art machine guns was restricted, thus setting a precedent. ED
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by shemtay 4y ago
...Amazon?
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by shemtay 5y ago
"Jargon" sounds pejorative to me, and implies that the phrasing is difficult for outsiders to understand. "Term of art" only implies that it is the specific phrasing used by practitioners to describe the matter at hand.
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by shemtay 6y ago
Your examples are very revealing of a larger problem. Not only are these viewpoints, which you claim can only be argued in bad faith, supported by empirical evidence, but the people who dare to support them publicly are risking social and f
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by shemtay 8y ago
I can't think of any pair of English words that are distinguished by a voiced vs unvoiced dental fricative at the same location, c.f. 'sue' and 'zoo'. Does any such pair exist?