CaptObvious

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Am I the only one who thinks Putin would be stupid not to agree? All he has to do is wait long enough to force Ukrainian elections, then reinvade. Problem solved for him.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

While I wholeheartedly support their idea, one must also note the irony of coordinating action via Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

He, of course, will have no problem if China is invited to the table. Especially if he can figure out how to tank any peace deal to protect Beijing’s weapons sales and economic benefits from supporting Russia.

It’s mind boggling that Washington has tried to cut Ukraine out of discussions about their own country. Although I’m sure Trump envisions a chain of golf courses and resorts across Donetsk and Luhansk

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hard to do when our administrations have also drunk the job-certificate koolaid. They forcibly overload our classes with twice as many students as we can effectively teach. Essays are just about the only tools we have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe the AI was trained on a Pornhub-heavy dataset?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I have never been more ashamed of the US. And I lived through the Cheney Administration

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think Welsh also has the lower teeth-upper lip variant. I think it’s phonemic and not an allophone of /f/, but I’m not certain.

As for why, these seem like good hypotheses. I sure don’t know :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

“Have a beer” was standard advice from upperclassmen when I was a foreign language major in college. Of course, the drinking age then was 19 and only loosely enforced, so we could go to a bar. But it was the best advice for beginners to get over their nerves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It’s been a few years since Intro to Phonetics, but aren’t labiodentals produceable with either upper teeth-lower lip, as seems the case in this study, or with lower teeth-upper lip, as would be the case in edge-to-edge alignment?

Diet affecting evolution and thus language seems plausible, but this doesn’t seem a strong argument.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which contradicts no part of what I said. Critical thinking. It works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Agreed on all counts

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Misleading headline. According to the article, Norway has done no such thing. Norwegian businesses have done no such thing. However Turkey, a NATO member and EU applicant, continues to facilitate Russian evasion of international sanctions.

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