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by timr 1y ago
> When speaking in a foreign language, it is commonly the case that you will have a word in mind, but it will be a word from your native language. This can cause problems when, for example, you set up the sentence to use a noun, but the
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by timr 1y ago
Yeah. That's a level beyond -- You're "fluent" enough that you can break the rules -- but that's partially not about language , but about being perceived to be native. Changing the cultural presumption, so to spe
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by timr 1y ago
I started learning Japanese after age 30 (currently around CEFR B1; JLPT N2), but I did it by moving to Japan. I don't know if the "language study", per se , provided the benefit, but the act of moving there so radically tra
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> I still do that classic thing non-fluent speakers do: I'll get halfway through a sentence, realize I don't know a specific word, and have to rephrase my thought more simply. To be clear, I'm far from a beginner, just not
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Yes, I got the exact island mixed up. Not really relevant to my point.
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by timr 1y ago
> Ellis Island was not opened until 1892. Nope. Wrong. That's the new facility. Castle Garden started in the 1850s: https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/overview-histor... > The 14th Amendment was ad
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by timr 1y ago
> “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” So, I assume that you know that's a poem by someone who was engaged in pro-immigrant propaganda? And the en
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Well, if we're predicting the future, here's mine: since they're already basically telegraphing it (and also because it's pretty clear-cut), I predict that they'll overturn the whole thing in a future case, and then
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by timr 1y ago
We agree that if you assume a world where there's no precedent at all, then our system of government doesn't work. Beyond that, no. We also don't agree that that world is the one that we live in.
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Well, that's very cynical and maybe you'll be right, but for now the California AG agrees with me. Per a quote in the WSJ [1]: > California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a co-plaintiff, looked for a silver lining: Red states, whi
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by timr 1y ago
> No, stare decisis is not binding. Nor does it still exist. If it was not binding, did it ever exist? Anyway , there's nothing that binds any Supreme Court to do anything at all. This argument terminates in noise. It's just
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> The Supreme Court has pointedly not ruled or said that the president has the authority to redefine birthright citizenship. Yep, agreed. I already added an edit saying exactly the same thing.
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That's nice rhetoric, but they're not the same issue at all.
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Or, more charitably: the Supreme Court has says that the president has this authority, in this specific area, and your characterization of this as "breaking the law" is not correct. Edit: actually , even that is overstating it. T
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by timr 1y ago
Look, I think I made my only point in the parent comment, but I just want to emphasize that "a panel of actual experts" is rarely the compliment that you seem to think it is. The past few years have been a veritable parade of ex
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The “listen to the experts” types are the same thing, but the opposite pole. Neither qualifies as thinking for yourself.
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It’s only homogenizing your thoughts if you don’t think for yourself. (I realize this might be a weak point for many people.)
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by timr 1y ago
> Wait, so are frequent heat dome events not real and just summer? Or not? That was the claim you made. No, that isn't what I said. Here is what I said: > There have been "heat dome events" every year I've been ali
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by timr 1y ago
Internet searches don't help you if you can't understand the basics of what you're reading. 1) The paper is very clear that it's talking about changes over a 50 year period , which is more than my entire life. It's
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There have been "heat dome events" every year I've been alive. We just didn't call them that , because we used to call this phenomenon "summer". When I was growing up in central Ohio several decades ago, it wo
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by timr 1y ago
We also just had a month of extremely cold summer weather. It was around 60-70 degrees most of last week in New York.
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As a chemist, I can tell you that nearly everything you can think of -- "natural" or otherwise -- has been correlated to some negative outcome, in some organism, by some (usually crappy) study. These get laundered and blurred into
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by timr 1y ago
There are "unmarked", membership-only places, but most likely you just didn't see or understand the sign. Many restaurants and bars are small mom-and-pop places that gain clientele through neighborhood word-of-mouth, and don
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Housing is absolutely an investment vehicle in Japan. It's just that Japan has been economically stagnant for 30+ years, bordering on deflation, and anywhere outside of a first- or second-tier city is effectively dying. Couple that wit
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by timr 1y ago
Hah, hilarious. I used to live not far from this place. [1] I don't know the story behind the structure, but it was a re-purposed storage shed [2] that someone was either subletting or owned outright. Probably the former -- the area is
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For bags specifically, instead of just "banning plastic bags" (which usually leads to dumb outcomes, as GP notes) mandate the use of paper. It drives me up the wall when I go to a store (Target comes to mind; I also see those stup
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> Your order is quite literally causing more traffic congestion, directly, as the car pulls up in front of your apartment and double parks while some guy hand delivers your yogurt or whatever. I told you that I don't use FreshDirect
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In the "I literally didn't insult you and call you names" sense.
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> Some company using it as an excuse to add a junk fee is anecdotal but hardly conclusive. It’s about as much evidence as a hotel saying they didn’t bring me new towels because they care about the environment. Got it. I show you an examp
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It's literally added on a as service fee. You want receipts or something? This is standard stuff -- go ride in a taxi and you'll see the same thing. I encourage you to adopt this level of skepticism to claims on both sides of th

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