hear me out: divorce ceremonies. divorce cake and divorce outfits. toasts to the uncouple spoken by the Worst Man and Maid of Dishonor (gender neutral). separate piles of gifts for the freshly parted, stuff like nice sheets and Target giftcards and cookbooks. marriage gets to have all this ritual attached to it and by god divorce deserves some of that action
This is also why Nintendo cracking down on roms is so atrocious. Many of these games they will NEVER re-release. If your company will make things completely inaccessible to consumers they should not be surprised when those people try to get access in other ways!
I want the people who make the things I enjoy to get paid. I want there to be more seasons of the shows I love. That is not happening right now.
Scientists once thought that ADHD symptoms were always present. But previous research from Rapport, who has been studying ADHD for more than 36 years, has shown the fidgeting was most often present when children were using their brains' executive functions, particularly "working memory." That's the system we use for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning and comprehension.
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we're in some form of worst timeline cause i can't get my mechs cockpit lanced thru by an ace pilot girl who says "forgive me" over the comms and then pulls the lance out and all my blood pours out like she pierced the side of a coke can
if life was fair girls would know exactly how to exploit the weaknesses of my otherwise invincible body and instantly liquefy me with brutal terrible force
Miss me with that shit I'm letting the enemy ace pilot girl who's been outmanoeuvring me over the course of the battle impale my mech's torso as a trap to negate her superior mobility and retaliate
You can't leave this in the tags
In my mind now this is what king of the hill looks like
I like the total lack of solidarity displayed by French towards English when it comes to the word colonel. I mean they did borrow it from us and we did take the Italian colonnello and spell it coronel, but then we sneakily switched back to colonel pronounced co-lo-nel. We pointed English in a weird direction then turned tail. It’s like “debuted” pronounced day-byood… in French débuter is pronounced intuitively, with the T, and yes I know we don’t pronounce the t in début… and English went with that and kept the silent T in verb form, meanwhile French was like no, début with a silent T is just the right amount of silly but débuter with a silent T would be crazy, you’ve got to draw the line somewhere. And we sat idly by as English committed all the way to something we’d started
It was dissimilation, a not uncommon occurrence in the Romance languages with l … l or r … r sequences, and apparently both the -l- and -r- pronunciations coexisted at one point, according to Etymonline:
“chief commander of a regiment of troops,” 1540s, coronell, from French coronel (16c.), modified by dissimilation from Italian colonnella “commander of the column of soldiers at the head of a regiment,” from compagna colonella “little column company,” from Latin columna “pillar,” collateral form of columen “top, summit” (from PIE root *kel- (2) “to be prominent; hill”). The French spelling was reformed late 16c. The English spelling was modified in 1580s in learned writing to conform to the Italian form (via translations of Italian military manuals), and pronunciations with “r” and “l” coexisted until c. 1650, but the earlier pronunciation prevailed. Spanish and Portuguese coronel, from Italian, show similar evolution by dissimilation and perhaps by influence of corona. Abbreviation col. is attested by 1707.
word poll, not about what's ""correct"" but about what has the best vibes
Op you missed rembember
i forgort 💀
do NOT sell my husband slutweed
i have since grown in inexplicable ways and changed my stance on this
And Sparta was not militarily excellent. Its military was profoundly mediocre, depressingly average. Even in battle, the one thing they were supposed to be good at, Sparta lost as much as it won. Judging Sparta as we should – by how well it achieved strategic objects – Sparta’s armies are a comprehensive failure. The Spartan was no super-soldier and Spartan training was not excellent. Indeed, far from making him a super-soldier, the agoge made the Spartans inflexible, arrogant and uncreative, and those flaws led directly to Sparta’s decline in power.
And I want to stress this one last time, because I know there are so many people who would pardon all of Sparta’s ills if it meant that it created superlative soldiers: it did not. Spartan soldiers were average. The horror of the Spartan system, the nastiness of the agoge, the oppression of the helots, the regimentation of daily life, it was all for nothing. Worse yet, it created a Spartan leadership class that seemed incapable of thinking its way around even basic problems. All of that supposedly cool stuff made Sparta weaker, not stronger.
This would be bad enough, but the case for Sparta is worse because it – as a point of pride – provided nothing else. No innovation in law or government came from Sparta (I hope I have shown, if nothing else, that the Spartan social system is unworthy of emulation). After 550, Sparta produced no trade goods or material culture of note. It produced no great art to raise up the human condition, no great literature to inspire. Despite possessing fairly decent farmland, it was economically underdeveloped, underpopulated and unimportant.
Athens produced great literature and innovative political thinking. Corinth was economically essential – a crucial port in the heart of Greece. Thebes gave us Pindar and was in the early fourth century a hotbed of military innovation. All three cities were adorned by magnificent architecture and supplied great art by great artists. But Sparta, Sparta gives us almost nothing.
Sparta was – if you will permit the comparison – an ancient North Korea. An over-militarized, paranoid state which was able only to protect its own systems of internal brutality and which added only oppression to the sum of the human experience. Little more than an extraordinarily effective prison, metastasized to the level of a state. There is nothing of redeeming value here.
Sparta is not something to be emulated. It is a cautionary tale.
at their communal tables, spartans ate nutritious but bland food, sometimes described as soup or gruel. asimov relates there was a contemporary greek joke, of course spartans don’t fear death, if all you have to look forward to is gruel every day, death seems preferable.
i posted similar thoughts on livejournal back in the day, i watched 300 and laughed out loud in the theater.
the first rule of detective fiction is that the detective in question should ALWAYS just be the nosiest person alive and never be a cop
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
