Thank you!

Learn about one religion and you may become faithful. Learn about many and you may become an atheist.

There’s some truth and some idiocy behind this meme. Just because, for example, the US political system tends toward a two party system, does not mean you can always or always not find some amount of truth or good ideas based on what two parties tell you. In fact, the framing is irrelevant toward truth, and is even it’s own type of bias. There are certainly some third rails neither side of a debate will touch, or some things both find the need to lie about. But in some cases someone is sort of right about something and sometimes people are just wrong.

Yep. It’s the wild west for a new industry.

How do you know you’d hate onion coke?

Soak a couple onion slices in coke for five minutes and then try it.

Sweet and spicy do go together. For example, general tso chicken or Al pastor.

Even give years ago, Google had a keyboard that skimmed your emails and texts to start a bank of words you use to supplement it’s dictionary for autocorrect. Like if you are a chemist and send an email that includes the word “tetrahydrafuran” every couple month, it would be nice for your phone keyboard to just have it in the dictionary.

I think apple has pitched this for a future iPhone, yes.

Capitalism is basically the story of money being allowed to influence everything.

Yes, I think universities as a business has gotten steadily worse in the US.

I think the short answer is that we all speak “Latin” and the various empires, especially Roman, spread cultural concepts across Europe that would be durable for some degree for centuries.

Counterpoint, there are also plenty of false cognates between any given European languages.

There is also convergence, as another commentor pointed out. If something is invented in the US in 1970, or introduced to the US in 1970, there’s a good chance people aren’t going to give it a name in their language: they will just call it what it was called to them.

I don’t think “loan words” explain your example, but you can imagine that if what is now Spain and France had the same rulers, they’d develop similar legal culture later on, and then if France conquered what is now England, that eventually English would inehrit specific quirks common to Spanish

Surpass, likely not. Yet make the career no longer financially viable?

Ok

If you were a professional musician your opinion might be different?

The only times I ever deliver is when I cannot pick up. At work? Playing dnd? Then the delivery fee is almost worth it.

Otherwise we eat a frozen pizza or pick the food up ourselves.

The media won’t give you “an answer”. Is a war like a board game where everyone can see the pieces and count the score according to the rules? What is Russia objective? Idk. Are they meeting it? Sure, to some degree. At what cost? We’ll we only have a small sense of the costs.

Is Ukraine “winning”? Well they have lost so much but not everything. Are they meeting their objectives? We’ll their state didn’t fall. That’s good.

And you just want some OP ED at NYT to just sum it up like it’s a football game?

It’s short for gasoline, which is the term for refined petroleum.

We all understand that. The link you provided doesn’t really show a wide amount of medicinal value. Some value, sure. A lot? No.

I’m not for banning tobacco. But as you can see, these medicinal uses are not the same as those for Marijuana, and even if they were, I wouldn’t be aghast if kids stole tobacco leaves from the hospital and rolled joints with the.

Marijuana at least has medicinal use though, right? I mean, it’s not 100% the same.

• Michael Scott

I feel like you are close to asking good political science questions. Close. Are you advocating for anarchy? Or communism? No? Just a technocracy that “works”?

An algorithm gets programmed… By who? T Its the cover Facebook takes. “Well we didn’t mean to radicalized thousands of people, we just had an algorithm feed them addictive and increasingly political videos until they were”.