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> perennially underfunded I remember voting to fund high speed rail, and the funding was quite generous...

If I saw that in any other context I would have assumed it was a low budget special effect--mostly due the spray of rainbow sparkles when the module separates from the base.

teenagers carrying and using guns in baltimore actually is a real problem

why the tourniquet?

sometimes professionals need to fix shit and need exacting clarity

Words of Latin origin are identifiable at a glance, and homonymic collisions are thereby avoided -- Caeser, seizer of the day

yes, i've seen that done in videos of streetfights.

Christianity began as an episode of Undercover Boss, so it makes perfect sense.

i had the same experience. my solution was to configure youtube kids to only show my whitelist of mannually approved videos.

is it not true though that activity/threshholds of dopamine synapses can be globally or semi-globally up and down regulated?

i would think some of our taboo words that a re borderline illegal and I am scared to even type the first letter of with asterixes because i am on a work computer

If I could change one thing about Duolingo, it would be to allow the user to turn off all the gamification completely. I don't care about fake internet gems, knowing how to speak C…

If you peruse the comments here, quite a few people seem to have been confused on this point

@dang the article does not seem to imply that molecular oxygen was found. maybe retitle to "Oxygen element" or "Atomic oxygen"?

Is the apple in the logo splashing into "wine dark sea"?

Thou and Thee are nominative and objective cases. Same for You and Ye. The formality/informality distinction is between You/Ye and Thou/Thee. Plural 2nd person used to formally add…

Tautologically, each student at a university who is a blood relative of a graduate of said university has a social network that shares a node with the university's formal network. …

Also, the presence of multigenerational participants in an institution help it to develop unique traditions and culture that improve it in ways that are hard to articulate and meas…

role -> the role of flight engineer roll -> do a barrel roll

In all fairness, prior to the UK being the UK, it was governed by a different set of bloody noble rivalries.

IANAEuropean. But, it has been observed that in Europe men of Middle Eastern extraction have subjected European women to sexual assault and harassment at much higher rates than men…

Interesting! Any knowledge of a corresponding female social phenomenon being similarly characterized?

If memory serves correctly, after the famous mafia hit “St Valentine’s Day Massacre” in Chicago with an at the time shocking body count of 7, civilian access to then state of the a…

...Amazon?

"Jargon" sounds pejorative to me, and implies that the phrasing is difficult for outsiders to understand. "Term of art" only implies that it is the specific phrasing used by practi…