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What an odd response to my post. In what way? Seriously, be more constructive in your criticism. Very well, then, I'll elucidate: You seem to have interpreted my remark as some sort of... I dunno exactly. Some sort of political or social statement? It was not. When I said "What an odd news story", ...

What an odd response to my post.

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What an odd news story.

Hey Viktor, that's a cool map. I'm having a hard time telling the difference between "Trade, transportation, utilities" and "Other services", though! For example, which is the dark areas in northern North Dakota?

I think this overall is a really neat idea, and even though the new map has significantly more habitability, it's in really interesting shapes that I wouldn't have expected. The big north-south swipe on the eastern continent seems like an excellent place for some interesting cultural interactions be...

Been peeved at work lately. A bit of background, followed by a giant rant (sorry): I work on a team of five. There's me, "Dan", "Cameron", "Nick", and "Kevin". Dan and Cameron have been on the project the longest; they started it and had a lot of impact on its direction. Nick has been on the project...

Wall Street Journal headline this morning: "New York Fed Eyes Its New Leader"

I initially read it as "New York fed eyes [to] its new leader" and was deeply concerned...

Closing various fisheries to set nets to protect dolphins encouraged I don't even know what's going on there. I'm going to guess... It is encouraged for various fisheries to limit/prevent/be closed to "set nets", and this will protect dolphins. (where a "set net" is a certain type of fishing net) T...

Interesting. I would say that Americans are significantly more likely to have familiarity with Spanish than French, actually--who doesn't know greetings/how to count to ten in Spanish? Spanish speakers so vastly outnumber French speakers in the US, too. (then again, I'm biased. I have family living ...

I'm sad St. Patty's Day falls on a Saturday this year because I wanted to wear orange and wait for people to ask me why I wasn't wearing green.

I actively don't care what a restaurant calls itself, as long as the food is good. I'm not particularly fancy when it comes to food, I'm afraid. If it's tasty, I'm happy to eat it, and I enjoy eating from a variety of cuisines. If such a restaurant calls itself "fusion", neat-o. If it doesn't, that'...

The main difference for me between the two is that in "rat trap", I actually pronounce the /t/, while in "rat rap", it's just a glottal stop. (virtually all of my word-final /t/s are glottal stops, unless I'm really trying to emphasize it or something)

My immediate reaction is for it to rhyme with "write"--i.e., /ɐɪ/ or whatever. (I have the Northern Cities Vowel Shift so I don't know if that's what it is for people without the NCVS) But the whole point of the song is to pronounce the words with as many varied vowel sounds as you can come up with,...

fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak cuisines stronger

EDIT: no seriously though I love fusion restaurants

Well, I imagine once the first few immigrants get established in a particular business, subsequent ones are likely to enter the same industry (either because they see their fellow countrymen succeeding at it, or because they work for/with their fellow countrymen initially), and over time it just bec...

This discussion of banh mi reminds me of this amazing restaurant near where I live. It's this hole-in-the-wall that's a combination Vietnamese restaurant, barbecue restaurant, and... cellphone store?? You can get a banh mi with smoked brisket on it and it's one of the best things I've ever tasted. I...

Here is a recipe for The Easiest Tomato-Based Pasta Sauce You Ever Did See : 1 can of tomato paste (~6 oz or a bit under 1 cup) (~180 mL) 1 can diced tomatoes (~14-15 oz or a bit under 2 cups) (~430 mL) 1 can tomato sauce (~8 oz or around 1 cup) (~235 mL) 1 tsp salt (~5 mL, or a normal spoon) 1 tsp ...

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I'm reading Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser, a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder (and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane). Like pretty much everyone else in the US, I read the Little House on the Prairie books as a kid and fondly remember them... I was unaware how much of them were fictionalized! Actua...

Had to read this headline three or four times before I parsed it correctly: "This Video Of Trump Hustling Onto Air Force One Before Melania Is Making Twitter Lose It"

"Sessions has so far weathered the incessant incoming from the White House and sources close to the attorney general have told CNN that he is unlikely to go anywhere soon." Multiple garden paths there fore me. First of all, "Sessions" could throw you off if you expected the common noun. Second was ...

It's much more likely the rental company has them, anyway. They clean out cars between renting them, so unless the papers were somewhere they might not have looked, they likely found them.