The author made a point of calling the head of the foundation "her" repeatedly after making clear they're non-binary. I'm sure this article has no agenda or anything.
"It tends to result in two large parties that must put together broadly popular coalitions in order to win."
If you don't mind, to what extent do you think the founders were aware of this? I know Washington made a point of warning about the dangers of political parties and then everyone else seems to have quickly hopped into the Republican/Federalist camps.
Was this seen as an unavoidable evil during the drafting, or did they think they were crafting something that would avoid parties becoming powerful?
If you don't mind my asking, which language is yours?
It's an interesting question to ponder which different languages ended up with distinction words for the meat vs the living animal, and maybe what that says about the culture.
The distinction is not a feature of French, from what I understand, and English ending up with this distinction seems to have been entirely accidental.
From what I can work out, yep it seems that way. Pork and beef were too expensive for the peasants so they just referred to them as the animals they were raising, but chickens were actually on their menu so we ended up keeping the animal words for it. We still got the word for pullet (young hen) though.
I just read a theory that poisson, french for fish, didn't come over because it sounded too much like poison, but who knows if that's true lol.
My understanding is that the difference in terms goes back to the Norman invasion, which is when a ton of French-based terms for things were carried over.
The peasants referred to everything as the name of the animal but the French nobles referred to it as porc, boeuf, etc. This is also where we got the words for venison, mutton, veal, poultry, and also apparently pheasant
I suspect this is the best answer for someone who is looking to cultivate a positive self image. There are other important factors too, like working on avoiding negative self-talk. But I think the big one is not letting others define how you think about yourself.
Criticism can be valuable but I think it's important to develop a filter for recognizing when people are just projecting their assumptions onto you and completely ignore those.
I believe the proposals being floated right now are for instituting term limits by having justices retire to Senior Justice status after a set number of years. They'd still be technically appointed and able to sit in on cases in special circumstances, but not on normal duty.
This is 1000% better as a response than I've seen recently from other Islamic countries and I'm a little sad it's getting dunked on so much.
Others are calling for speech to be silenced in response to Quran burnings and they're literally just saying "hey, could you just read it instead?" It's a low bar compared to Western Values ™️ I guess but this kind of response should be what we strive for even if you don't agree with them on anything else.
Some accents of English have "linking r"/ "intrusive r sounds" for similar reasons, like when the end of a word and start of the next are both vowel sounds.
Example, some non-rhotic accents still pronounce the ending r in clear/gear before a vowel sound, or you might get "Pamela [r] Anderson" because of the back to back "a" sounds
Spanish has a lot of connected speech features, too. Especially with words that start with open vowel sounds, since most Spanish words also have open vowels at the end. Example, "Mijo/Mija" (term of endearment for your kid) comes from shortening "mi hijo/hija" (my son/my daughter). There are like 100 other examples I'm forgetting and my spelling is probably wrong since my Spanish is quite rusty but you get the idea
I've never thought about it like that. Internet comments expressing a bit of schadenfreude really are morally equivalent to ripping civil liberties away from millions of people! Thanks internet commenter!
"I'll never do it again, Jesus," he says, knowing he's gonna be back on his same bullshit next week