Global climate change and rising sea levels were predicted more than 100 years ago, and specific warnings for low-lying areas like Florida have been given by scientists for decades.

But people, especially the ‘pull yourself by you bootstraps’ and ‘no gubmint handouts’ people, have conveniently believed politicians of a specific party and chose to invest in buying this property.

Why should these people be bailed out now? Why should they be rescued rather than the socioeconomically disadvantaged?

That language is at a very much higher grade level and complexity to that of the current political discourse. Wow.

The alternative is that the Russians kill Ukrainians and probably committing war crimes while doing so. As long as Putin continues this barbarism, there will be thousands of deaths per day. How do you want to distribute these between the Ukrainians and the Russians?

While the powers are separated, if all three are aligned there is nothing they can’t do. The supreme court has already demonstrated it’s able to reinterpret the constitution in a way no other court has done in history.

I’d love the pigeons shitting all over Trump and his cavalcade for the next 4 years, but look at me, living in cloud cuckoo land…

For now

The items you bring up are outside the control of the DNC and its members. How can the DNC change media ownership or block Russian astroturfing?

The press is motivated both by its oligarchic owners and also by popularity. We can’t change the former (certainly whole out of power), but we can make policy and targeting changes that make Democrats popular, and it follows that what the news reports will change.

Blue cheese is on the list, and oh my is it fantastic.

Sadly it’s easy: More votes being cast is clear evidence of immigrants being bussed from voting place to voting place to vote multiple times, or of ballot stuffing or of loads of mail-in votes from fake people.

Too many people are arguing from the conclusion (there are millions of fake voters) to what the data should be instead of using the evidence to the best/most accurate conclusion.

It’s the Crown Prosecution Service, and Crown means the Government in this case.

Just to add - Thai has a tonal system and distinguishes rising, low, medium, high and falling tones. This requires a bit more time to say so that there is time for the tone to change (or not change).

Some languages have fewer vowel sounds while others have an insane number (in Europe that would be Danish).

Thai has a lot, so speakers need to speak more slowly so the listener has time to distinguish words. But it also means that you can have more words per syllable.

It’s not about efficiency per se - it’s data and error correction

I’m a bit of an OCD logic nerd. When I eat something, I need to immediately gulp down another 7 otherwise I could never have ate them.

Maybe it was the Black Prince who was blind?

I think he’s beginning to realise that some of the sovcit personalities haven’t actually won anything in court, but still thinks that sovcit is a real thing. So he’s trying to filter out the bullshitters and talk directly to a sovcit who succeeded. He’s going in the roght direction but has already made a series of decisions that will haunt him to the end of his life.

There’s a word for not being able to handle this: misophonia

It seems that for some people (myself included) it generates a primal urge.

Or stepping off an escalator and just stopping right there to get their bearings.

Some rules weaken, and others are created or subtly change - that’s why parents can never get their kids’ slang quite right. It’s not that the parents can’t simply weaken their grammar, it’s that the kids do some things differently with very strict rules.

Thank you for writing ‘a lot’ and not ‘alot’.

I see that alot.

^ ^ ^ ^ that’s my trigger