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  • In Dutch, the proper way to say it's e.g., 8h30 is "half nine".

    Makes it extra confusing when they say the same in (British) English for 9h30. So short for half past nine.

    You wouldn't pronounce €8.50 as "half nine Euro".

    Even worse: the correct way of saying 8h40 is "10 past half nine".

  • Most likely, this would make the Republicans vote for whoever their candidate is, rather than a minority Democrat winner.

    Not saying I disagree with you per se. I had the same thought when reading this news.

    The current system was probably designed to promote compromise, even across party lines. But we all know how well that's working out these days.

  • Combine that cognitive dissonance with the sunk cost fallacy

    They've spent years having to defend and rationalize why they vote for him. Admitting they were wrong will be impossible for a lot of them. So they dig in even deeper.

  • He said that he would have dreams of drops of blood (a symbol of his village deity, the goddess Namagiri Thayar), followed by complex mathematical equations. Even with the help of his formally-trained friend GH Hardy, he was only able to prove a small fraction of his insights.

    "It came to me in a dream and I forgot it in another dream"

    ~ Prof. Farnsworth