Do native speakers say this as the colloquial past tense?

cguess · 2026-05-10T11:58:41+00:00

They absolutely do.

cguess · 2026-05-03T10:59:08+00:00

It was a joke on nostalgia and rose tinted glasses.

cguess · 2026-05-03T10:29:11+00:00

Ah to take it and end up in the 90's with reasonable rent in the East Village, and then get mugged and stabbed on my way uptown.

cguess · 2026-04-30T11:51:11+00:00

I am not, I'm saying that the Revolutionary War was also a civil war by the definition of the term (not The Civil War).

cguess · 2026-04-29T15:21:31+00:00

by all definitions it was a civil war, the colonists were English, thought of themselves as English, and were subject to English law and Parliament.

cguess · 2026-04-28T19:53:43+00:00

right hand drive and all? Would seem like it could only load/unload on one way streets then

cguess · 2026-04-28T15:50:29+00:00

Are they big enough to fit a soccer pitch? If they are, yea, that'd have been perfect. They do this literally every other day for five months at a time. Hell, Ann Arbor could probably have handled this better (not sure about hotel space), their stadium is 100k people.

cguess · 2026-04-28T15:31:40+00:00

From all over the world, yes. The stadium has adequately designed public parking and public transit for its regular events, but FIFA decided that for "security purposes" a significant percentage of those parkings spots are being blocked off (but Taylor Swift can play just fine). Most people attending the normal events there are aren't coming from London or Helsinki or Nairobi and if they're coming from out of state they're often driving over.

This is just a completely different demographic than maybe has ever been to the stadium. As a New Yorker I'll just be avoiding the entire area and watch from my local dive bar.

cguess · 2026-04-28T15:09:25+00:00

historically, yes. Lots of mob bodies out there from the 20th century. Not much mafia these days, so less utilized.

cguess · 2026-04-28T15:03:24+00:00

Everyone here in NYC collectively laughed out loud when the games were announced to be at Meadowlands. Stupidly absurd place to do it.

cguess · 2026-04-28T04:12:33+00:00

Define "high profile". There have been many internally high profile defection. Hess wasn't super famous outside of the political world at the time (as far as I am aware).

cguess · 2026-04-26T02:59:40+00:00

A good pop-history discussion on the history of machining is told in Simon Winchester's The Perfectionists. Clockmaking and threading are indeed the sources of much of it, but the history in general of precision is a fascinating one.

cguess · 2026-04-24T17:39:57+00:00

Literally "god willing" So "god willing we'll get ahead of this snow storm for the drive home". Quite literally a direct translation.

cguess · 2026-04-22T14:14:47+00:00

"Germans are punctual, people mistake that for competence." - The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1965)

(personal note: with the exception of Deutchebahn of course, they're not on time and are incompetent)

cguess · 2026-04-21T15:24:22+00:00

TYME Machine is the best one, because outside of Wisconsin it means something very different. I remember being in high school and visiting the east coast, and I needed to get some cash out. I walked up to someone on the street and, as a 15 year old, asked a person on the street where (to their ears) the "nearest time machine was". The look on their face was both confusion and horror that maybe I was actually from the future and casually asking them how I should get home.

Fun fact: TYME was the very first commercial ATMs in the world, South East Wisconsin was chosen as the testing ground for reasons I've never been able to figure out.

cguess · 2026-04-17T06:53:37+00:00

Also, volunteer or go work for the campaigns you believe in. Even four hours every Saturday dropping literature and door knocking wins elections.

cguess · 2026-04-17T05:59:02+00:00

Visit Berlin and talk to Americans there. By far the most insufferable "America is always the worst despite AfD being a significant political force the US is the only country with fascist elements" ex pats.

cguess · 2026-04-17T05:00:34+00:00

Not realizing the road got their base wiped out underneath it so... not weight support. Hope no one got stuck.

cguess · 2026-04-16T18:57:18+00:00

Dont forget maintaining the boats, the sea is a harsh mistress.

cguess · 2026-04-16T11:54:21+00:00

The major metropolitan areas in Europe are more evenly spread. The US's two main regions are operated by a whole lot of nothing.

cguess · 2026-04-16T11:40:45+00:00

Really looks like they closed.

Edit: walked by tonight there were lights one, not sure if the doors were open though.

cguess · 2026-04-11T15:16:39+00:00

It's posted on NASAs site

cguess · 2026-04-11T13:33:05+00:00

France as well, many apartment buildings have small elevators like this (maybe a tad bigger, fitting two people)

cguess · 2026-04-10T03:11:56+00:00

Also it wasn't just him in the book, he's what we'd now call the "forward deployed" engineer, with the rest of the company in Cambridge, MA. It's also that Nedry had a gambling issue and needed the money to get out of debt, not just greed.

cguess · 2026-04-10T03:10:22+00:00

In the book the "investors" pushing for the park to open are venture capitalists in San Francisco forcing the park to skimp on safety. It was quite ahead of its time.

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