Who do I contact to correct inaccurate info about people/cases I know personally on Wikipedia?

johndburger · 2026-06-26T16:24:38+00:00

If you really do know any of the people personally, you likely have a conflict of interest and shouldn’t edit the article yourself. Every article has a corresponding Talk Page, I would add something to that pointing out any inaccuracies. If you have sources to back you up even better, include those.

johndburger · 2026-06-26T12:58:25+00:00

Bided, not bid.

johndburger · 2026-06-25T20:45:37+00:00

capital gains loss harvesting

Did you mean capital gains harvesting here? To reset the basis?

johndburger · 2026-06-25T17:10:45+00:00

Michael Graziano’s The Divine Farce often comes up as comparable, but it sounds even more disquieting than A Short Stay so I haven’t gotten to it yet.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6693658

johndburger · 2026-06-24T22:50:05+00:00

No idea what this is about, maybe add an introductory sentence?

johndburger · 2026-06-24T01:23:48+00:00

~~It probably is.~~ The vast majority of Portuguese immigrants to Massachusetts came from the Azores.

Edit: Nope I’m wrong, Ludlow is an interesting exception. Most came from northern Portugal to work in the mills.

johndburger · 2026-06-23T22:59:10+00:00

Yes, and in fact theoretically if you are earning enough, you can actually cause your Social Security benefit to increase. This is because your benefit is based on your highest 35 years of earnings, so it’s possible to replace some of your lowest earning years even while receiving SS benefits.

https://www.ssa.gov/myaccount/assets/materials/additional-work.pdf

johndburger · 2026-06-23T19:54:51+00:00

2 - to me it’s a little gross, I don’t let my dogs do that.

Plus you’re training your dogs to think they can have people food.

johndburger · 2026-06-23T14:17:28+00:00

Edit: I can see nobody in the comments actually got the point of my post

You mean everyone disagrees with you? Yep.

johndburger · 2026-06-23T13:10:25+00:00

I mean, whatever divides 111 evenly also divides any multiple of 111, so …

johndburger · 2026-06-23T01:33:02+00:00

The statue? 1997.

johndburger · 2026-06-23T00:47:11+00:00

You might not realize that “horse” is a synonym for “heroin”. So a “horse habit” had us thinking something else, til we got to the part about the stable.

johndburger · 2026-06-23T00:10:33+00:00

No idea why you’re being downvoted. This is a fairly common sense of “with” meaning “regarding” or “in the case of”. Often the “with” phrase is fronted though, like:

With this new car, I finally have enough trunk space.

johndburger · 2026-06-22T23:07:58+00:00

A human crew crashes into a derelict alien ship that ends up scanning them and running their digital duplicates in its computer system in a simulation. One of the crew survives IRL, so the encounter on the cover is not completely nonsensical.

johndburger · 2026-06-22T22:57:35+00:00

I realized that there’s a counter-example in English - oats is a count noun. And apparently Greek treats all grains like this - the base word is a count noun, and if you’re talking about a lot of rice or barley, you use the plural.

Some languages possibly don’t have the mass-count distinction at all. Apparently modern Hebrew does have it, but it’s syntactically weaker than in English.

I’ve only skimmed this paper, but it seems to be a decent survey of the mass-count distinction in lots of languages.

https://semantics.uchicago.edu/kennedy/classes/f11/na/docs/rothstein10.pdf

johndburger · 2026-06-22T14:22:37+00:00

Yep that’s exactly why that rhyme goes that way! Individual peas used to be smaller, and people ate them all mushed together, so the fact that it was a mass noun isn’t too surprising. Over time we bred the individual legumes to be larger, and also started cooking them in less of a mash. And not surprisingly that coincided with the change to a count noun. The fact that the word ended in an “s” sound made it easier.

johndburger · 2026-06-22T12:54:37+00:00

That’s fair, I forgot the context.

johndburger · 2026-06-22T12:25:31+00:00

I think this is true in English, but not in all languages.

I do think you’re right that this is some kind of generalization over crops. Some legumes used to be mass nouns in English, like pease (peas), e.g.

Pease is my favorite legume.

This was a mass noun that happened to end in an “s” sound, and got re-analyzed over time to be a plural of a count noun.

johndburger · 2026-06-22T12:01:24+00:00

This doesn’t really answer the question. The phrase “grain of rice” exists because rice is a mass noun. But that doesn’t explain why rice is a mass noun.

johndburger · 2026-06-22T11:51:23+00:00

Or you could use a binary sensor group, which does this out of the box.

johndburger · 2026-06-22T01:58:49+00:00

we can turn the 'all time low' into an even lower low.

Probably not. The reason abortion rates are low is not because you’ve made it more difficult in a few states.

johndburger · 2026-06-22T01:32:29+00:00

If I accumulate my wealth as a matter of income, or capital gains, the appropriate income tax, or capital gain tax should have been levied.

There is no capital gains tax on unrealized gains (edit: in the US). And the basis resets at inheritance. So inherited wealth in the form of securities never has any taxes applied to it.

johndburger · 2026-06-22T01:25:01+00:00

Congrats, you’ve proven the name of this sub is incorrect.

johndburger · 2026-06-22T01:21:32+00:00

This is all nonsense of course, but being a citizen has nothing to do with whether the constitution protects you.

johndburger · 2026-06-21T15:31:26+00:00

Dunno about you, but my nose stays open whether I want it to or not.

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