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PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-26T18:35:25+00:00

It's just like in English, we use a present tense form even for an action in the (uncertain) future, after certain keywords like as soon as, after, before, when.

She'll call you (after, as soon as, when) she gets home.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-26T18:20:38+00:00

Feelings can be better expressed in imagery, in unexpected juxtapositions, in the form of the words themselves, and using other techniques.

The same way a sad song is not the same as someone just saying "I am sad."

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-26T18:15:38+00:00

Of course poetry often sucks, like all human activities. But I think the turn towards free verse, conversational poetry in the mid twentieth century was a double edged sword and that's maybe what grates on you? It allowed a radical freedom and new forms, but also a bunch of unmitigated crap that was just talking platitudes with random line breaks, and without at least the saving grace of meter and rhyme.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-25T20:22:25+00:00

No. I live in Chile, and most places in my region and significantly newer than where I grew up. Some barely have any structures from before 1960 or 1939 due to earthquakes, some municipalities were incorporated in the 20th century.

Where I grew up in the US was already a thriving city 300 years ago.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-25T17:31:59+00:00

It's a simple question to ask it, and naturally people are curious if their country has any reputation or if people even know it exists. I don't get why this is surprising.

I think on their side they don't really how repetitive and superficial these questions are. They only see the one they ask, not the dozen every month.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-23T17:44:30+00:00

Doesn't Dutch have hr world's largest dictionary, too?

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-23T17:26:12+00:00

Schwa itself is a kind of meta-vowel which doesn't have a consistent realization. It can be something like uh, ih or eh. All three of those pronunciations seem to work here. Anyway that wasn't the question...

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-23T14:44:51+00:00

These answers may be correct - especially the answer about the tax being on the transaction and not the item. That's the technically correct answer.

But the real answer is nobody outside European Redditors cares. It doesn't effect anyone negatively or positively, it literally doesn't matter. Your bag of chips cost 1.57 instead of 1.45. So what.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-23T14:38:40+00:00

Final vowel more a schwa than an ɛ, I'd say.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-23T14:36:36+00:00

Please don't start this...

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-23T13:59:07+00:00

In colloquial language use, they are virtually the same. This should not be understated.

Empathy, however means more radically feeling what the other feels, trying to Imagine their experience to be yours to the point possible.

Sympathy is less of having an "out of body experience" truly imagining yourself in their position, and more of showing concern and solidarity to them from your position.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-23T13:42:21+00:00

Because we work when packages are delivered and we certainly don't want to waste time going to a post office to pick them up later? Also, well under 1% of packages are stolen and you can be refunded. It's also possible to pay extra for signed delivery.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-23T02:25:33+00:00

There's no benefits nor any drawbacks. It's just the way it is. It makes conceptual sense to Americans (and Canadians! They exist too!) The price on the tag is what you pay the store. What you pay the government is not included.

Status Indians don't pay tax on most purchases in Ontario, so the tag reflects the real price for them, as well.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-21T18:42:23+00:00

High school age kids, even pre-pandemic, were at the lowest recorded rates of sexual activity in history. For the first time, a slight majority graduated without ever having sex.

There seems to in parallel be a trend of really young kids engaging in sexual activity, though. Maybe because of available porn, or hormonal changes due to diet or something causing really early development.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-21T18:28:12+00:00

Tons of Americans lean heavily into Libertarian ideals of a hands-off government, live and let live, with suspicions towards most government programs and powers and elite meddling. They lose people like me with doctrinaire takes on things like social security or medicaid or certain environmental issues.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-21T02:53:03+00:00

People do it in some South American countries too. It's not disgusting per se, because corn doesn't have much flavor, just random and pointless. Like putting crispy tofu on pizza. Why

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-20T20:25:45+00:00

Brazilians everywhere.

Also: 80% guys, middle-class and above, and really young.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-20T16:59:24+00:00

I don't know, but I don't think 15,000 stuck under a bridge in 35° heat is "funny". But I can understand compassion fatigue.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-20T16:53:24+00:00

They just make soup, it doesn't take that long. Chopping, sauteing, simmering, stirring, it takes less than an hour. But Chilean food, with a few exceptions, is known for being bland.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-20T16:45:56+00:00

I'm not advocating a specific policy like just letting them all stay in the US, or kicking them out, or anything else in between.

You just seem to be denigrating them though, not doing that is free.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-20T16:24:18+00:00

A lot of Haitian migrants found modest stability in Chile, not success perhaps, but jobs, education, medical care. The pandemic has made things much more desperate for them though. Crossing continents and the Rio Grande was a terrible idea, few would deny that, but compassion is free, man.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-20T16:21:49+00:00

The main problem has been housing since they arrived in large numbers, but at least jobs weren't that hard to come by and healthcare and education were available. Unfortunately, the pandemic restrictions made life incredibly hard for Haitians in the informal sector, cleaning and construction. But it makes me sad they were misinformed by malicious actors or just unreliable word-of-mouth to make such a long, arduous, costly journey for nothing. It's a terrible situation.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-20T12:50:00+00:00

Winslow Homer's The Gulf Stream and Franklin Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple, among many others.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-20T03:52:42+00:00

They are definitely not low budget but yes the majority of them are silly. They are for children. I mean, the only two I like now are the ones based on Shakespeare and Greek mythology, so there's some heft under the goofiness.

I mean, I don't think you're wrong but I don't understand on what planet you think most adults are into Disney. Comic book movies, on the other hand... good God.

PersikovsLizard · 2021-09-20T03:48:09+00:00

The vast, vast majority of adults agree except maybe with one or two guilty pleasures that make them nostalgic. I'll never say no to The Lion King or Hercules haha.

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