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While I do think that zante is just trying to both sides a situation that is very much not both sides, "belligerent" does not mean "aggressor". Everyone fighting a war is a belligerent in it

I wonder how much of this is connected to Russia's total disengagement from Nagorno-Karabakh last year? Like did Russia lash out at Azerbaijan for humiliating it over being unable to back Armenia up?

The Houthis claim so, at least. Iran has them (home-grown and possibly some bought from Russia) so it's certainly not implausible for the Hoithis to get their hands on some too

It seems to have touched down with no significant damage to the fuselage until it hit the embankment. The pilots did manage to bring it down at least somewhat softly and on a runway, they just couldn't get it stopped on time

"Stop living in denial" stop being the problem

Fucking hell a woman should be able to make a lewd joke without inviting sexual assault

We'll usually understand if you get it wrong. There's a lot of extremely counterintuitive ones. If you're American, the most likely trap is Edinburgh - it's not EE-den-berg, it's EDD-in-buh-ruh or EDD-im-bruh.

I'll also just have to ask that the same grace is returned when I inevitably fuck up basically any place name based on anything Native American, because I don't know how any of those languages work

Unfortunately our linguistic history is a huge tangle and there are few safe assumptions. Depending on where you are in Scotland, the places names might derive from Gaelic, Pictish, Welsh, Norse, or English, and then they probably got Anglicised at some point but it could have happened at basically time within the last five centuries. A substantial number of the non-Gaelic ones are doubly messed up because they got Gaelicised first and then the Gaelicisation got Anglicised. Glenisla is a good example - glen derives from Gaelic, and nobody is sure where isla comes from.

Still, Glenisla is a lovely area! Lots of good hikes there. I hope you had a good time.

UK English spells and pronounces that spice as "turmeric" (so the first syllable is pronounced like "turn" without the N), so I'm now imagining you saying nurmeric

As a marmite loyalist I might have to start doing it too

vuh-JEH-mi-tee

The UK and New Zealand are both big livestock producers which are doing well on this metric. But yes, the US is doing alright overall here

Neuf is both. Neuf/nouveau in French is like new/novel in English

"Neuf" is both "nine" and "new". The two forms of "new" - neuf/neuve and nouveau/nouvelle - descend from different declensions in Latin. We have an echo of this in English too with new and novel

Maybe just to see through clouds? The red patches of th Neuf-Brisach one in particular look very plausibly cloud-shaped

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:712379/mmsi:518998865/imo:9329760/vessel:EAGLE_S

It's registered in the Cook Islands. Not that that matters, because flags of convenience make registration functionally meaningless most of the time with modern shipping

The Scent of the Old Ocean by Those Who Ride With Giants. Specifically the little recurring guitar riff with four quick descending notes, a repeat of the lowest one, and then a slide back up

Hang on, this is the plot of the Expanse

"Significant other" is the accepted catch-all term for long term romantic partners, regardless of marriage and gender, but because it's a little bit long it's common to abbreviate it