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I think it was Hitler who said he wasn't a Nazi https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1089896776514260&set=a.502824405221503&type=3
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Calling all sleuths (furrier and furrier) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Poilièvre "This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “is this poil(hair)+lièvre(hare), a rabbit farmer raising for rabbit fur, or rabbit trapper fur hunter, furrier?" plus "Perhaps from pois aux lièvres (“yellow pea (Lathyrus aphaca)”)" "
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That is just weird.(being polite)
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Have you misunderstood what the post you quoted was saying? I felt it was criticizing Trump's greedy eyes and likening his approach to that of Russia.
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I think we need the OP to give us their own definition.(I usually ignore an OP if they don't field questions on their topic)
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To repeat an earlier question ,what does the OP understand as "middle class"? Obvious not the billionaire class and obviously not those who cannot afford to put away any savings So a subset of those in between? What subset (subsets)? Edit: Who are the liberals?(if we are allowed to ask stupid questions)
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80 .They bring him onto Anderson Cooper from time to time. He is entertaining(and compos mentis) Here is his piece in NYT from last month https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/opinion/democrats-donald-trump-economy.html
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I see James Carville was just saying that the Dems should "play possum" as the "Repubs" are imploding in real time . (I thought he was being sarcastic but no he meant it) They do have to be careful not to provide the regime with an excuse to cancel elections . I wonder how much support they can lose and still remain in power. (For those of us non Americans I wonder if we actually care)
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The bag is with thee Blessed art thou who filter the allergens And blessed is the fruit sucked up in your attachment.
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Which it do be!
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"It was me whom they buried" or "It was I who(m?) they buried"? (Not disagreeing with you,though) That quote observing the swift changing of the language within a (then) presumanly short lifetime is so surprising when it feels that it should be a phenomenon much more typical of our fast moving information age. Plus ça change and all that.
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Mark Knopfler has written a song about this It is called Why Aye,Man? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KrwSDX95wCs (not one of my favourites) It feels strange when you question something I assume all native english speakers and readers just assume is part of the natural fabric of the language . ( these days I sometimes don't bother to correct myself when I write "i" instead of "I' but it feels very sloppy)
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https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/whycapitali/#:~:text=For a long time%2C it,is intended to stand alone. " Reasons why I is always capitalized Hard to believe, but there were no rules for capitalization until the 1700s. For a long time, it was common to mix lowercase and capital letters within a word, the latter used to add emphasis. Historians now attribute the capitalization of I as a result of two factors: The lowercase i is difficult to read: By capitalizing I, it makes it more clear that the letter is intended to stand alone. An uppercase I symbolizes importance of the writer: The I has retained the capitalization because it also gives added weight to this pronoun used to describe the individual writer. Some languages do capitalize different pronouns,"
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Fog harvesting could provide water for arid cities
geordief replied to studiot's topic in Science News
Does Ben Macdui** count.? I was stranded up there in the fog overnight with another 17 yr old friend in a small tent which wetted our clothes /sleeping blanket when we unavoidably touched the sides. The morning came and we walked down into the fog which cleared aftrr 5 minutes absolutely fortunately and undeservedly. ** next highest in Scotland after Ben Nevis -
Must be where I heard it.
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He's not laughing now.(great delivery that man) I liked Brendan Grace too.
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I heard that Google is moving its HQ to Cripplecreep Avenue.
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Can there be a problem with over cooking the white so that it is tough? I have always only paid attention to the yolk and am fairly expert at getting that right(some people like it hard -I like it half and half) but I have vaguely noticed that a "just nicely" set white would be preferable to a tough one but have never bothered trying to facilitate that. And juggling the two is something I doubt I could possibly attempt.
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No,on the other forum **discussing this someone (CC) said they can access the site but it is like a ghost town with the odd visitor who don't do anything (CC started an outage post which is still there without other contributions) and that is all there is -but CC can see it. ** scivillage
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So this ip address has an extension that includes our site owner's? Does Trump want to acquire the Domain now that he knows Greenland is not ICEland? Incidentally I have the old(2 years defunct) thescienceforum. DOT com site still bookmarked on my phone and I clicked on it today to see how it was doing and I got refreshed to a page (twice as I double checked) which was the login page for my mobile data provider (vodafone). I wondered was it trying to hack my (anybody's ) information in some clever scheme. The owner of that site was a crook I am fairly certain and the porn on it after it "folded" seemed clearly illegal to me.