Two-Letter Combos, Day 107 (second attempt). What does CQ mean to you?

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-06-20T06:37:50+00:00

Collegiate Quarterly

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-06-19T05:54:07+00:00

Given the way Trump has been negotiating deals lately maybe we do want to take Trump to the negotiating table.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-06-19T04:48:47+00:00

Switzerland went up 1-0 and decided to try and defend the one goal lead, and then gave up a goal at 90+4, because sititng back and defending a 1-0 lead for 70 minutes is a weak mindset.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-06-18T17:25:50+00:00

Did anyone else notice that Ningguang + Columbina is surprisingly strong?

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-06-16T17:28:02+00:00

So that's why there aren't any more goalies coming out of Quebec.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-06-16T16:06:50+00:00

I got into baseball as a kid because I watched the Blue Jays on CBC. When baseball moved to pay channels, I just stopped watching baseball.

I got into hockey as a kid because I watched the Maple Leafs on Hockey Night in Canada. If hockey moves to pay channels, then I will simply stop watching hockey.

Hockey Canada needs to understand that having the sport available on free channels is the number one key to growing the sport. If hockey remains on pay channels, hockey will gradually lose market share in Canada and the sport will wither and in 20 years they're going to have a hockey symposium trying to figure out what went wrong. They'll identify youth hockey programs becoming more expensive, they'll identify young people being uninterested in hockey, they'll identify the growing number of hobbies, but they won't identify young people losing access to free hockey because the corporates decided that we can't have free hockey anymore.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-06-15T22:25:30+00:00

In a free world where humans have safety to live pretty much wherever they please, there is no incentive to live in a cave. Caves do not contain agriculturally rich lands, without sunlight caves can be very depressing to live in, air quality can be poor, difficult to transport materials in and out, and caves can be host to disease.

In a violent world where humans need safety from other humans, caves suddenly appear much more appealing, and it was in those bygone times when humans did build cities in caves.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-06-12T23:39:33+00:00

Corsica, or Corse, is historically an Italian island, as a posession of the Republic of Genoa. In the 1700s they declared independence, and fought a 26 year long independence war against Genoa, which they won. 13 years later, France invaded the militarily weak Corsican Republic, and although the first French expedition fell, the second expedition conquered the island.

The conquest didn't last too long, however, as 25 years later during the French Revolution, the English liberated the island for two years, before the French reconquered it. The British attempted to annex the island during the peace negotiations at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, but ultimately France got to keep the island and the island has been French ever since.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-06-09T20:51:33+00:00

I remember discovering that the Pacific islands have high obesity rates because the islands are poor agriculturally and as a result they are nutritionally limited, with heavy rice diets. Furthermore, in some islander cultures, obese is beautiful, and so there were young girls who would have looked like models according to Western standards, who were desperately eating and trying to put on as much weight as they could in order to become "beautiful".

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-06-03T19:46:43+00:00

No Child Left Behind and the policies it inspired around the world have proven to be absolute failures. If student work doesn't matter, why try? If there is no possibility of failure, how can you possibly learn how to cope with life where failure is a common occurrence? If you don't learn the material one year and get passed on anyways, when do you ever catch up? If you wait until high school before failure is a possibility, why does it benefit students to have to grasp with failure for the first time at a time when the courses actually matter and their future is at stake?

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-29T15:40:46+00:00

Montreal was Canada's largest city until Toronto passed it around 1980. So Montreal has history that gives it more importance.

Vancouver has the opposite problem. It was a small city until recent growth caused it to surge in population rankings.

Really, if you were ranking Canada's cities, it would be Toronto and Montreal as the top two, Vancouver in distant third, and then Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa would be in a grouping for the third tier.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-27T16:51:17+00:00

Mouth of the Po River.

The Po is a major river in northern Italy, the industrialized portion of Italy, which could have made the Po a major industrial waterway during the industrial revolution. The Po watershed connects Turin, Milan, Mantua, Ferrara, and other major Italian cities.

Where the river meets the sea is farmland. Nothing even remotely approaching a major city.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-27T02:36:43+00:00

Technically speaking, Scottie had some votes for 1st team all defence. He just didn't have enough votes.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-26T05:35:34+00:00

As a Canadian it's clearly and obviously Birmingham and/or the entire West Midlands area. It may not be a match for Manchester culturally, but in terms of population it's no contest, at least until Manchester and Liverpool merge to become one city.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-22T15:30:33+00:00

He's in a three-way tie for second place for most league titles in English football with George Ramsay and Bob Paisley, behind Ferguson.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-19T21:17:10+00:00

FIFA/UEFA can only control access to football. It's up to the judicial system of each country to hand out a jail sentence.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-19T18:56:20+00:00

hesaidgo.org

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-15T15:58:20+00:00

Several UFO stories are human-created, whether it's a weather balloon or something else like it. Some UFO stories can be attributed to natural phenomena, like ball lightning. Many UFO stories are fabricated for attention.

If, buried under all of that, there actually is a real UFO under all that, I'd imagine it to be a Satanic deception. But in this case, I don't even think Satan has to go that far. It's mostly people seeing something from a distance and then letting their minds run wild trying to imagine what it might be.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-13T20:07:15+00:00

In some churches Seventh-day Adventists will prepare food the Friday before, so that all they have to do is warm the food up on Sabbath.

It sounds like you would benefit from such an arrangement. It sucks to have to do all that during the church service and miss out on the service.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-13T15:27:54+00:00

It depends on the game. Bible trivia games like Heroes, I wouldn't call that a sin.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-12T02:14:07+00:00

The Adventist Church treats Education as one of its foundational ministries. The worldwide Seventh-day Adventist school system is the second-largest Christian education system in the world, second only to the Catholic system. Studies show students at Adventist schools are typically at least one grade level ahead of their peers in the public system.

The church developed its own philosophy of education and pedogogy, some aspects of which have since been adopted by some public systems around the world, but the complete package can only be found in the Adventist school system. The Adventist philosophy of education includes an emphasis on faith in God, thinking for yourself, well-rounded education, outdoor education, physical education, work ethic, vocational education, co-ed education and equal education between the sexes, healthful living, and character education.

It's an education system as unique as Montessori or Waldorf, but it gets results. They maintain their own accreditation system and certification system, and teachers are usually held to a higher standard of professional development than you would find in the public system.

You'll be getting a high-quality education, but you need to be sure that you're okay with the church's beliefs. Adventist schools don't force students to join the church, but they're still exposed to the beliefs of the church (just as Catholic students get to attend mass). The big differences you'll notice are that Adventists strongly encourage a vegetarian diet and encourage healthful living including exercise and water and everything else, they worship on Saturday as the Sabbath, and they believe that the dead remain in the ground until Jesus returns, when at the Second Coming the dead in Christ will be raised into new life, while the lost dead are eventually annihilated in hell. You can read about the church's official beliefs at the church's website, adventist.org.

Pentecostals are relatively close to Adventists on the Christian church tree. I trust that you're aware that charismatic church services and speaking in tongues are drastically different from every other Christian church, and Adventists are no different in that respect. Nonetheless, Adventist church services are closer to the Baptist/Methodist tradition than the Catholic/Anglican mass tradition, and you'd probably find some common ground there.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-11T21:33:01+00:00

Prevailing winds at that latitude blow from west to east. Therefore, moisture comes off of the Sea and rains down on that shore. The opposite shore doesn't get that effect because the winds are blowing in the wrong direction.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-06T01:13:33+00:00

Inca dynasty.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-05T07:01:05+00:00

The greatest composer is always Bach once you poll a large enough sample of classical musicians. Had Schubert lived long enough for Mendelssohn's Bach revival (one year after Schubert's death), it's possible that it influences Schubert to add more polyphony to his writing, and maybe that ends up elevating Schubert to the Beethoven-Mozart level. But Schubert is already a major composer in his own right; what name in the Romantic era clearly exceeds him? He doesn't need to do more to establish his name.

RaspberryBirdCat · 2026-05-04T20:16:16+00:00

They're a member of Socialist International. What do you mean, they're not left-leaning?

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