Hamas is a real government, and is in charge of Gaza — the PA is not in charge of Gaza. It is also a terrorist organisation, and is also basically not democratically elected. But the people of Gaza should not be held responsible for their government’s folly and terrorism. But it is important to recognise that de facto Hamas is the government of Gaza.

Israel’s clearly taking this war in a different direction from usual, unfortunately — based on what they’re saying at least, it seems the intent is to eradicate Hamas and deal with the consequences later

For some reason, thought this was loss for a second

We’re on the Earth — how do we see the Earth? By seeing other parts of the Earth that aren’t ourselves. The same is somewhat true for the Milky Way. And like on Earth, you can’t see the whole thing without leaving it, because we only get to see the stuff that isn’t blocked by other things.

It’s more like “standing goose”

I’m currently in a course about the Roman Republic in college, so pretty much every other day.

Yeah but is a taco a hot dog

Just be in a flying plane at the exact same speed and acceleration so that in your reference frame it becomes easy

If you could get a rubix cube or something at the airport, (which seems plausible) could be a lot of time spent on learning how to do it if you download instructions beforehand.

It’s worked for me thus far idk. I think it’s down to when world was having some more issues with staying up and stuff, so it should work decently? No clue, not a computer expert.

To the mods: you can fix this by repinning and re-unpinning the posts. Had to deal with this myself in other communities.

It’s called history, blame the French

Cuz the gram came before the SI system and the kilogram is a much more useable unit. The original m-g-s are based on physical things, like m being a subdivision of the length from the North Pole to the Equator going through Paris, and s being related to the time of a pendulum with certain length swinging or smth

A gram is the weight of 1 mL of water, roughly.

I mean, I’d be very worried if 2023 wasn’t smarter than 1970 no matter the location. Between the lead poisoning and the advancements in knowledge and education methods…

As someone who speaks Cantonese, it’s more that Cantonese has six tones, rather than similar-sounding vowels. People who don’t know how tonal languages work are prone to fucking it up, cuz we have relatively quite a lot amongst the more popular languages. Plus the large number of homophones cuz of the monosyllablism of Chinese languages where each syllable has its own character, you get a lot of context-dependent words. Also makes for some puns, but yeah.

Yes that’s it!! THANK YOU SO MUCH

I haven’t actually watched Miss Saigon, but I’ve played a medley of it in concert band a few years back — must be where I got this from!!

Also thanks on the compliments on the voice :D It’s not that good but I try haha

Already did, didn’t work unfortunately…

No it isn’t. And that’s not even the name of the composer, that’s the name of a fictional character from the movie.

I’ve tried Soundhound which is the thing Midomi runs on, and google; no dice, unfortunately.

Have no idea how to upload audio on something like this 😅