apologies I meant velar, my brain short circuited over “soft palate”.

at a casual glance, it looks like a significant difference is that the Latin ellided from a palatal consonant and the Greek from a bilabial to end up at the same phoneme.

Say the thing.

Don’t apologize, couch, caveat, joke, fuss, start with context, equivocate, mumble, bumble or talk around the subject. Just say it.

now

i think you’ll find that Oprah Winfrey peddled this in her Satanic Panic era.

so like voting for the other guy?

backtick is on my keyboard and used in Markdown

TREE(TREE(3)+1)

He seems to have very messy relationships with women with whom he also collaborates, he went on Alex Jones’ podcast to compare “SJWs” (lol) to the KKK, and apparently he threw a bunch of guitars at his guitar tech (who went on to join A Perfect Circle) while at Lollapalooza.

Finally, he sacked the drummer for suffering a heroin overdose between Melon Collie and Adore and they changed their sound to more electronic, and a lot of fans saw that as him trying to change the Pumpkins into a solo act, and responding by calling anything after Adore a “tribute act” and claiming that the real Pumpkins are Iha, Chamberlain and Wretzky, and Corgan is just a side member.

I’d argue there’s room for both - however, the real enemy is capitalism as any game could have a well-balanced casual and competitive modes, but they take time and care which costs money and most games forced to extract money not support fun at the behest of boards, shareholders and c-suites.

where’s the lie?

SEO isn’t good for SEO since AI. We might be in the death of the search engine.

we are so far from a one world government that this is a very silly concern. Even if every country between the US, Russia and Egypt joined.

There are so many exceptions, exclusions, considerations that its not even equal to a one-European-Government.

“never worked so hard in my life” probably equates to roughly half as hard I worked on my paper round at 13

Pedantry, but the Nunnery scene which contains the “To be or not to be” soliloquy (the text on the image) is act 3 scene 1 and the Gravediggers scene which contains the skull for the “Alas poor Yorrick” dialogue (depicted in the image) is Act 5 Scene 1

the puzzles in portal weren’t that hard

fun fact, Jeff Bezo’s biological dad was one of the most well known unicycle-hockey players.

but there’s no long-term plan. What do you do when the majority of the people you represent hate your policy? Well there’s reckonings of increasing severity.

Voting is the condom that protects the powerful from the many. If you fuck everyone and raw dog the will of the masses you’re going to get a Society Transmitted Infection

Yeah, it’s not meant to happen (obvi) but especially if it has wear/high usage it can.

brit in the US- it is astounding to me that sometimes a plug can just fall out of the wall on its own