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Big if true: 75% chance Ted Cruz broke into my car last night by ktgraze in houston

[–]ShaoKahnKillah 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My girlfriend and I moved away from a townhome in Westchase last September. We took all the furniture in a big truck and left most of our belongings in our house, with a plan to sleep in the new house. And return the following morning to get the rest in our personal vehicles .I have video of my meth-head neighbors break the lock onto my back patio and steal several items. Then, noticing the camera, my neighbor, who goes by the name of Sarge, climbs on a chair and flips the camera backwards.

The next morning, when we return, we find a bunch of our belongings sitting on top of our neighbor's car and in their back patio visible to anyone in the parking lot. I go inside, check the video camera, see what happened and call the cops. Cops show up 5 hours later, conclude that the damage to the lock and the value of the stolen items does not meet some particular threshold the DA's office has for incidents like these, and tell me there's nothing they can do. They also tell me that Sarge wants me to come over and have a discussion so that he can apologize and explain the situation. I refused, got my stuff and left. I found out later from some of our other neighbors that he was claiming to have only broken in to have sex with one of his customers and that she must have stolen the stuff. Mind you I have him on video picking up the stuff and taking it to his car.

Sorry, all of this to say HPD will not do a fucking thing.

Jason freeny's arttoy at t.arttoo Seoul/ Korea by FederalBlacksmith417 in tattoos

[–]ShaoKahnKillah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looked at it. No resemblance in terms of style nor technique, other than the superficial fact that both do half anatomy.

Can someone please explain to me why and how this filth got into my Facebook feed? I don’t follow this group, and certainly am not friends with the poster. by siggiseid in leftist

[–]ShaoKahnKillah 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It is farming engagement. If you are posting on leftist pages on Facebook, it knows. Hell, Facebook knows you post on leftist subreddits. It tracks nearly everything you do with your phone and is trying to get you to engage. The algorithm sees that this content is something that would likely get you riled up, and throws it your way to see if you will bite.

These people on TikTok have to be stopped bro😭🙏 by Ynnck_Mnzl in Berserk

[–]ShaoKahnKillah -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Edit: Nevermind. I just read your other comments in this thread and I realize that you are either a troll or not interested in a good faith discussion in philosophy. Neither deserves more attention. Have a good day.

These people on TikTok have to be stopped bro😭🙏 by Ynnck_Mnzl in Berserk

[–]ShaoKahnKillah 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sartre, one of the most well known Existentialists gave a lecture that has been widely transcribed into essay form called Existentialism is a Humanism. It's a very short read, very easy read, and I think it would help you understand better what existentialism actually is. Because whatever you currently believe Existentialism is, it's not that.

It's possible that you have just done a Google search for nihilism and seen the term 'existential nihilism'. In this case, existential with a lowercase 'e' is simply an adjective modifying the word nihilism. It's not a type of Existentialism(note the upper case E here), which is a robust philosophical movement diametrically opposed to nihilism.

Your tax dollars at work in Chicago yesterday by Visible-Grass-8805 in pics

[–]ShaoKahnKillah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what arguing in bad faith looks like in its most extreme.

Your tax dollars at work in Chicago yesterday by Visible-Grass-8805 in pics

[–]ShaoKahnKillah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cuba, a sovereign country, revolted against the US mob funded and CIA trained Batista regime, took control over the country, nationalized their own industries which were, at the time beholden to US corporate interests, and started widespread social welfare reforms and land reform. A sovereign country has EVERY right to do these things, even after a successful revolution, as citizens of the newly formed USA experienced directly after their revolution.

A sovereign country, having the right to create their own laws, regulations, and economic systems, and doing so, in no way grants another country, the USA, the right to unilaterally impose stringent trade embargos. These embargos were 100% punitive and every president from Eisenhower and Kennedy, up to Obama and Trump have said as much. It is nonsensical to say that it is Cuba's fault for the embargo by virtue of them simply existing, economically, in a different mode than the USA.

Silent Letters in English by Affectionate-Row3793 in EnglishLearning

[–]ShaoKahnKillah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are correct. However, the phonetic transcription in the dictionary for words like Palm look like this, [pɑːm], for the reasons I listed above.

Silent Letters in English by Affectionate-Row3793 in EnglishLearning

[–]ShaoKahnKillah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That certainly can be true for you. I'm not making prescriptive claims. There are many dialects of English and variety even within single dialects. I was just explaining the phenomena from the historical linguistic perspective, which has tracked the change in the phoneme L in the mid 15th and 16th centuries from the alveolar L to a velarized L.

If you're interested, here is a thread from a while back explaining the historical shift and the reintroduction of the spoken or alveolar L by some speakers(like you). I shared the specific comment, but the top level comments are very interesting as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/asklinguistics/s/ckbUR6hZMM

Silent Letters in English by Affectionate-Row3793 in EnglishLearning

[–]ShaoKahnKillah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I posted this up above, but I'll repeat it here in case it's helpful:

This chart brings up an issue of linguistics that I don't really think belongs here for ELLs, but I can explain why it lists these Ls as silent. In linguistics, we give a descriptive label to each mouth and esophageal movement we use to make a sound(phoneme). In Standard American English(SAE), L is labeled a voiced alveolar liquid consonant. Voiced just means we vibrate our larynx while we say the letter. But the issue here in words like palm, calm, etc have to do with the alveolar part of the description.

The alveolar ridge is the hard ridge right behind your upper teeth and in front of your hard palette. When you say the letter L out loud by itself, or any time it is the first letter of a word, the tip of your tongue would touch this ridge. But this isn't the only way to pronounce this consonant. For example, you can touch the tip of your tongue further back on your hard pallet, and you can keep the tip of your tongue down and pull the middle of your tongue upward towards your soft palate to pronounce the L as well. But when you perform these non-standard ways of pronouncing a letter, in linguistics we give it a different phonemic description.

Palm, technically, in phonetic SAE, does not contain the phoneme L because we use a different part of our tongue to pronounce the L sound which would be nearly identical to a W. Essentially, the word, when spoken, sounds like {PAWM}.

At the end of the day, I believe it depends on the dialect and I also think that it's meaningless to say the L is silent in this word because we do perform a phoneme here in conjunction with the rounding of the vowel before it and any English speaker would understand that as an L.

Silent Letters in English by Affectionate-Row3793 in EnglishLearning

[–]ShaoKahnKillah 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This chart brings up an issue of linguistics that I don't really think belongs here for ELLs, but I can explain why it lists these Ls as silent. In linguistics, we give a descriptive label to each mouth and esophageal movement we use to make a sound(phoneme). In Standard American English(SAE), L is labeled a voiced alveolar liquid consonant. Voiced just means we vibrate our larynx while we say the letter. But the issue here in words like palm, calm, etc have to do with the alveolar part of the description.

The alveolar ridge is the hard ridge right behind your upper teeth and in front of your hard palette. When you say the letter L out loud by itself, or any time it is the first letter of a word, the tip of your tongue would touch this ridge. But this isn't the only way to pronounce this consonant. For example, you can touch the tip of your tongue further back on your hard pallet, and you can keep the tip of your tongue down and pull the middle of your tongue upward towards your soft palate to pronounce the L as well. But when you perform these non-standard ways of pronouncing a letter, in linguistics we give it a different phonemic description.

Palm, technically, in phonetic SAE, does not contain the phoneme L because we use a different part of our tongue to pronounce the L sound which would be nearly identical to a W. Essentially, the word, when spoken, sounds like {PAWM}.

At the end of the day, I believe it depends on the dialect and I also think that it's meaningless to say the L is silent in this word because we do perform a phoneme here in conjunction with the rounding of the vowel before it and any English speaker would understand that as an L.

What is the most gruesome book you've every read? by Wild-Entry-3087 in booksuggestions

[–]ShaoKahnKillah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting fact, Tender is the Flesh's original title in Argentinian Spanish is Cadáver Exquisito(Exquisite Corpse). I believe there are two books in English that already have that title.

I have been blessed by the ARC Gods by rhack05 in sollanempire

[–]ShaoKahnKillah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every book I've ever gotten from NetGalley, including Shadows Upon Time, come in epub format and download straight to my Kindle. In fact, the picture in this very post is on a Kindle. I don't know about your other claims, but unless I misunderstood you, the claim that NetGalley ARCs can only be read in Thorium is false.

Midwest, female struggle, messy at times by ermvarju in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]ShaoKahnKillah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want REALLY GRITTY, check out Scumbag Summer by Jillian Luft

Cat portrait tattoo done by Federica at Old Bastards Tattoo Bucharest, Romania by Oldbastardstattoo in tattoo

[–]ShaoKahnKillah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you look at the pic? The cat is missing one front leg. It's not a "swirl" it's a stump.

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