acockworkorange
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- Comment on 7 hours ago:
I wouldn’t say better, just easier to learn the basics.
For instance, it is a mostly incomplete language from a conjugation standpoint. While I love the communication power romance languages have in verbal conjugation, they do present an obstacle for learning.
Plural is also quite easy in English, as are basic adverbs.
If only English had consistent pronunciation rules like German, it would be a near prefect lingua franca.
- Comment on 17 hours ago:
Ad hominem.
- Comment on 17 hours ago:
Not angry at all, thank you for the concern.
And yeah, English is terrible, the absolute divorce between writing and speaking being the most salient point for me. But it’s the lingua franca, you can’t not speak it if you want to interact in the world stage. But, for all its faults, I’m glad it replaced French in this role.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
It’s fucking far off. I can’t stress how bonkers your number naming is. I speak two romance languages and two Germanic ones, and I’ll not try French because this and many other bullshittery.
- Comment on FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT! 5 days ago:
Most of the world except USA*
- Comment on YSK: The Lethal Danger Of Combining Welding And Brake Cleaner 6 days ago:
Thanks, that’s good to know. Still not setting foot on one. Would rather work with nuclear.
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 6 days ago:
XXXUV
- Comment on YSK: The Lethal Danger Of Combining Welding And Brake Cleaner 6 days ago:
I was taught that if you’re in facility that uses phosgene as raw material and smell freshly cut grass, you have a day or two to say your goodbyes.
- Comment on YSK: The Lethal Danger Of Combining Welding And Brake Cleaner 6 days ago:
Flammability has nothing to do with it. Read the description and look up phosgene.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I dub thee Steve!
- Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen 1 week ago:
That’s exactly what hyperbole is.
- Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen 1 week ago:
Mine are pristine, I use them all the time and they are equal or better than the road. The idiots around me walk on the fucking road like chickens. Fuck em.
- Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen 1 week ago:
Let me introduce you to a figure of speech called hyperbole.
- Comment on Actual theft 1 week ago:
Brave plays them in the background without ads. I don’t ever cast youtube, no philosophical reason, I just don’t feel the need to.
I use Amazon music for music, just because I’m too lazy to move services.
I refuse to contribute to Google in any way, shape, or form. But I understand your choice, and I know how hypocritical this sounds after I just said I have Amazon music. But the world is highly imperfect and so am I.
- Comment on Just enjoying a nice quiet lunch break at work… 1 week ago:
- Comment on American exceptionalism 1 week ago:
One of the ways worm infestations can kill, especially kids, is when it gets so bad they start travelling up the esophagus and can block the upper air ways. In these extreme cases, in the absence of another medication at hand, a spoonful of kerosene can save a life.
My grandma saved a neighbor’s 6 year old kid doing just that. The girl was later taken to the hospital and made a full recovery, but would have asphyxiated otherwise.
- Comment on American exceptionalism 2 weeks ago:
The kerosene one works.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, I didn’t know my tangent would offend your fragile sensibilities.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 2 weeks ago:
Display Port over USB C is a thing now. It’s how laptop docks work these days. In one cable you have power, video, and USB.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 2 weeks ago:
So?
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 2 weeks ago:
Because there isn’t a law about it. What we need is a legislative that actually does their fucking job.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 2 weeks ago:
I was about to say that they’d have to base that on the constitution but… gestures broadly… Yeah, the current court would have to be dismantled first.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 2 weeks ago:
Judges don’t pass law at all. At must jurisprudence in the absence of law. Laws are the realm of the legislative.
The legislative could pass a law limiting supreme court term to 16 years tomorrow of they wanted.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 2 weeks ago:
The president has no business undermining the judiciary in the first place.
- Comment on Beans n Corn 2 weeks ago:
Nice, thanks!
- Comment on Beans n Corn 2 weeks ago:
What’s the other crop of the triad?
- Comment on 6,000 Years of History Unearthed Beneath the Houses of Parliament 2 weeks ago:
Finally! Let’s blow up the parliament!
- Comment on YSK negative views about homosexuality remain common in many countries 3 weeks ago:
That question and a 1-10 scale makes no sense. Especially with the answers inn that order.
- Comment on 'Brazil Just Succeeded Where America Failed' as Coup-Plotting Ex-Pres Bolsonaro Arrested 4 weeks ago:
Already cooking for some time.
- Comment on My Nepenthes pitchers have no liquid inside - Problematic? [Help] 4 weeks ago:
Could it be that it’s got all the nitrogen it needs from the fertilizer and therefore it’s saving resources by not producing the juices?
