I’m envious of that, to be honest. Non-phonetic spelling is one of the greatest barriers to learning a language like English.

Part of the problem though is what this comic highlights, where English does not often try to adapt names and loanwords to its own phonetics. They are transliterated to the Latin alphabet in ways that make sense for the logic of the source language, and then just carried into English.

And then it just happens that the history of the English language is characterized by the number of times Britain was invaded by speakers of other languages that just merged into the lexicon, so English is riddled with loanwords that are each informed by the logic of their languages of origin.

Plus everyone knows Shavian is the best way to render English.

𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑦𐑟 𐑕𐑴 𐑥𐑳𐑗 𐑥𐑹 𐑮𐑰𐑛𐑩𐑚𐑩𐑤 𐑞𐑨𐑯 𐑞 ·𐑤𐑨𐑑𐑦𐑯 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑. 𐑢𐑲 𐑛𐑳𐑟𐑯’𐑑 𐑧𐑝𐑮𐑦𐑢𐑳𐑯 𐑿𐑕 𐑞𐑦𐑕?

It’s always weird to me how the FOB Chinese community is so stigmatized by the ABC community. I guess the American way is taking every opportunity to punch downward to make people feel better about themselves.

PFAS air

Harmleb? I barely know Leb!

Check their post history, “but Biden” and “but Democrats” is basically the only thing they talk about. Even on posts like this that have absolutely nothing to do with Biden or Democrats.

It’s almost like they’re not here in good faith.

The 22nd amendment, which limits the president to two terms, also applies a restriction to a two-term president running as someone else’s vice president.

The next option would be to have Trump be appointed as speaker of the house, which does not have any eligibility guidelines at all (like you don’t even need to be an elected official first), and then have both the president and vice president abdicate.

But with all of the checks on power basically removed from the position, Trump would have to somehow find two sycophants who are both electable and would be willing to surrender absolute power just to give a sundowning octogenerian a third term.

Make it third. I’m currently earning what I thought would be my life goal.

I can’t even afford to move out of my two-room apartment.

And they’re based in a blue state, so if they were to declare a recession, the Trump admin would just discredit them as fake news and “radical left” propaganda.

Yeah, call it cheesy or too on-the-nose, but I think I would have preferred just having an explicit glimpse of someone about to shoot Tony. Can still do the cut to black, but there’s a split second of someone drawing a gun before it happens.

The viewers are not Tony Soprano, so it just seems weird to limit it to his perspective and obscure events to only what he would be aware of in that moment. It’s just that you have an entire series where viewers can see all of the moving parts that most characters are oblivious to, except for the very last one apparently.

Commas would have helped a bit, that way you could at least just count the commas or the more visible blocks they space out, instead of counting each set of 3 digits one digit at a time.

There are more pragmatic ways to write numbers, though, depending on the need for specificity. If the lower digits are insignificant, simply writing 4.81 billion is easy, or 4.81e9.

Hwæt?

Even if that were true, what he really means is that 2 out of 5 people will have a full work week, doing more work for no increase in pay, while the remaining 3 people lose their jobs.

I would never stoop as low as that.

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PS4 and Xbox One are weak, last-gen consoles. I’d use the same PC that I have all the porn tabs open on.

In my experience the only thing we buy regularly that hasn’t substantially increased in price in the last year is gasoline.

Not likely to last long, however. Gas prices in the US have been stabilized for a little while by tapping the strategic petroleum reserve.

Trump announced just a couple days ago that the government is planning to shift to replenishing the reserve, which means that the gas prices will soon be more directly dictated by market rates.

Videogames, eh?

Those that use the script extender are at greater risk of breaking, but most mods made only with the creation kit should work without issue.

• in the US.

I’m assuming the others are supposed to represent other marginalized groups.

Brown for people of color, pink for women, though your guess is as good as mine on the purple.

The idea of intersectionality is that it is not feasible to try to uplift one marginalized group to the exclusion of others, so it’s basically saying “we have each other’s backs regardless of race/gender/sexuality/whatever purple is.”

Would not surprise me if this was an AI generated shirt though, or at least a ripoff of an original design someone else made, because I’ve seen this same sort of design everywhere.

She does not.

Statement from her site: https://www.ocasiocortez.com/fact-checks/httpsthehillcomhomenewshouse4287448-ocasio-cortez-rips-pro-israel-group-extremist-organization

News article from The Hill: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4287448-ocasio-cortez-rips-pro-israel-group-extremist-organization/