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What? The Focus is a compact car and competes with the Civic. They've traded rankings over the years, but the Focus isn't a clear winner. The Fit is in a different class (a subcompact that competed with the Ford Fiesta), and in an
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>No one trusts Ford Sedans over here for some reason From my personal observation: poor maintenance and safety ratings compared to alts. Driving is dangerous in America and you have to have a car to participate economically in most of th
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My father refused to read Time for decades - decades - because they'd manipulated their cover photo of OJ Simpson to make him look darker-skinned than he actually is. It was, I'm told, A Thing, along with All-American restaurant
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>It's also important to note that there is widespread, normalized abuse in the teaching system, especially towards children with poor grades, or who are just poor. Things like yelling, demeaning, even spanking and hair cutting (for
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>no doubt influenced by music licensing law and contracts Yes. Well, I assume this must be part of it.
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Home Mini used to search YouTube first. At some point, they changed the preferred context to Play Music, and you would have to say, "Play x on YouTube" to get YouTube audio, even if a more correct result was on YouTube than was on
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I already mentioned that, and explained why it's not applicable to this case, suggesting that to some degree it's not a sufficient explanation.
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It's not SEO: something is fundamentally broken in Google Search
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There are many historical examples of people participating in less-than-ideal labor situations because they were well-compensated and saw that their work would lead to greater prosperity for their community and country. The carrot was enoug
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As a point of comparison, North America has harsh winters that can be difficult to survive if one is unprepared. Many (a majority of?) early European colonists died within a year of arrival for this reason. Indigenous peoples were instrumen
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"At 11:00 on Sunday morning when we stand and sing and Christ has no east or west, we stand at the most segregated hour in this nation." It's difficult for me to justify buying into the idea of Christian social life as the s
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>I also see no evidence that this paradigm/convention is actually harmful. And that's fine. But you're putting a lot of energy into trying to convince me of that. Do you see the contradiction? You claim that the nomencla
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I never held that it causes confusion. The duplicity of meaning is probably, in fact, a bonus for some. I don't like that duplicity. I would rather the terminology be unambiguous and direct, if it is possible (and, in this case, it is)
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"Super-Saharan Africa" was a joke, meant to draw attention to the farce of this associative naming convention in general. Hence "Left Africa" and "Right Africa". :) Now, I'll ask you to take it seriously.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on the Black Andromeda(theroot.com)
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>It is absurd. Again, how so? The two connotations are not mutually exclusive. If the goal is to avoid implying a hierarchy, why not change to a term that has no connection to hierarchy?
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There are more than a billion souls there; I would take that bet.
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People seem really upset at the notion. Even you can't seem to engage with it as anything but a farce. I have to wonder why. I'm just going to start calling it Super-Saharan Africa. When people point out the issue on their map, I&
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I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean.
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>Putting aside the absurd nitpick on the "Sub-" prefix (everyone understands that this refers to "South" and not some position on a hierarchy). Is it absurd? Do they understand? Can you show me how you know this? >
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Orienting with terms like "top" and "bottom" inherently denotes hierarchy. Whether you ascribe meaning to that hierarchy (and I think people do) is another matter. Explicitly stating direction rather than something tha
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On an extremely tangential note: I wish we would stop using the term, "Sub-Saharan." The semantic quandaries should be obvious, but it also subscribes to a curious linguistic glitch of putting the North and South into a hierarchy
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I would like to push back in the spirit of inquiry: ecosystems surrounding rivers that are dammed are shaped over millions of years by the presence of an estuary, and then modified nigh irrevocably by a few years of human intervention. That
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I guarantee the Grim Adventures intro is spammed.
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One thing I've taken to - to spur thought, mostly - is likening the fire situation in California to the difficulties of securing the detritus of nuclear power generation. We have evidence to suggest that Californian Native Americans pr
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Final Fantasy XIII (As per, I suppose the machines' conception of grace is important in this regard.)
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The, "Could not be made today," line of thinking is overblown. I predicted around 2015 that a movie in the style of "Falling Down" could never be made with a black lead. Less than 2 years later, Get Out was released. And
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Yes. Because such a fundamental process was faulty, the entire project and anything built on its underlying code has a high bar for trustworthiness. I don't believe the *Office projects are rigorous enough about solving those issues, i
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I don't trust LibreOffice. It's my understanding that it's composed somewhat of former OpenOffice folks, and an OpenOffice glitch consumed several of my important documents/writings. Ironically, I replaced it with Everno
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IIRC hotel and hospital have the same roots, which makes the term "hospitality" much less confusing.

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