In which we yet again post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing -or neither- tweets

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  1. Funkfoot

    Funkfoot Member+

    May 18, 2002
    New Orleans, LA
    I think this is just a response to market forces. It's becoming clear that most new, cleaner energy production is not being used to replace fossil fuels, but to make bitcoins and AI bullshit instead. So we'll be drilling for oil and gas much longer than optimists may have once thought.
     
  2. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This has to be seen to be believed. It’s worse than the description. These guys are complete sociopaths.

     
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  3. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

    Mar 9, 2000
    Bethesda, Md
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    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Seriously.....Secret Service should start asking that dude some questions...
     
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  4. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I was a very early reader (supposedly I was already reading on my own well before my 3rd birthday) and one of the unfortunate consequences of this was that I was always set aside from the other kids all the way through grade school and even beyond in Reading (and then later English) classes because I was so "advanced". As a result, I never studied grammar. It's something I've always been a bit ashamed of.
     
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  5. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This is a great point…if you really believe Trump is an existential threat to our democracy (and I for one do) then if someone offered you a Harris-Cheney race in 2028, you’d tear their arm off taking the deal.

     
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  6. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Oh Lord, this cop

    “Free men don’t ask for permission”

     
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  7. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  8. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

    Mar 9, 2000
    Bethesda, Md
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    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This will only get worse.....

    Red States Get Redder, Blue States Get Bluer
    A USA Today analysis of the nation’s 3,113 counties shows “a striking realignment since 2012 that has intensified the partisan leanings in states across the country, leaving only a handful where the outcome of the Nov. 5 presidential election remains in doubt.”

    “The hardening of the country’s political lines has contributed to other consequences, too, including one-party control of the governorship and state legislature in 40 of the 50 states. That has led to a patchwork of sharply divergent laws across the country − even between neighboring states − on abortion rights, transgender care, the public-health response to the pandemic and other controversial issues.”
     
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  9. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
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    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
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    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I mean--it would take a LOT for me to ever move back to Nebraska.
     
  10. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
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    --other--
    Damn! I have a twin. You just described my struggles literally to the age- not only with grammar, but with foreign languages because I never studied English grammar.
     
  11. Pønch

    Pønch Saprissista

    Aug 23, 2006
    Donde siempre
    Clowns, both of them. Also cringy having a lady bringing them drinks whom by the way they dont even thank. Very alpha male!
     
  12. rslfanboy

    rslfanboy Member+

    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    Honestly, having gotten the last of the rigorous grammar ed for a few years, is that grammar only serves to make a distinction in perceived class and respectability, but often nothing is gained in knowledge or clarity.

    The people who really care about that stuff are accurately described as assholes, as @spejic pointed out.

    EDIT:
    I hadn't considered this. My math brain has made it pretty easy to learn Spanish. Teaching my kids to read has reiterated just how messed up English is.
     
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  13. InTheSun

    InTheSun Member+

    Oct 20, 2005
    The Andes Mountains
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    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ecuador
    Seems this scenario is certainly on his mind a lot.
     
  14. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
    The American Steppe
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's never to late to learn to diagram a sentence.
     
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  15. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    English has an easier time becoming the world’s language because of its simplicity. We don’t use cases except for pronouns. So it’s easier for a beginner to say who is biting whom in a stereotypical man-dog interaction. The first noun does the biting, the one after the verb gets bit. Easy peasy.
     
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  16. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
     
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  17. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    Time was there was a thing called a "language cripple," characterized by:

    Writes left-handed usually with a pronounced hook;
    Became unusually fluent in their native language about age three,
    Learns words more by context than instruction,
    Scores well in the first year (the vocabulary amassing year) of a foreign language course,
    Then struggles mightily as soon as verbs require conjugating.

    I went to a remedial French camp before my junior year, and it took the guy about 5 minutes to say "Okay, you are one of those; this is going to be very hard for you..."

    I made it through third year French, but I have no memory how; just week upon week of feeling like "if I were designing a language, I wouldn't do it this way..."
     
  18. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    I see complaints about Rashida Tlaib being shut out and it's like they aren't paying attention.

    Tlaib's spent the last eight years railing against the Democratic nominee. She isn't getting any attention because people rightfully see her as a clown and a loudmouth. Liz Cheney, who is getting nothing in return is out there campaigning for Harris.
     
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  19. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
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    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
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    DC United
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    United States
    Shut up, Dad.
     
  20. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    I find the best way to learn how to write clearly is to read a lot. That's how you understand the flow of words and how to be understood.

    That was ShayG. I just took his point and turned it into a bad joke.
     
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  21. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Mocking women or erasing them?

     
  22. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
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    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This is the first I've heard of this!

    Holy cow! Every single one of those criteria applies to me!

    I failed at HS French so ended up doing the first year at a remedial level as a Senior (in a classroom full of sophomores--this at a time when my school system put 9th graders in Junior High) just so I could graduate.

    In college, not being able to get through Spanish led to my dropping out and more or less staying dropped out for much of the following decade.

    Damn, man--you just blew my mind.
     
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  23. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Speaking of leftists, this was in Michigan the other day.

     
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  24. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
     
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  25. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    I didn't have the language cripple, but I was good at languages. Math on the other hand, well let's just say I had a lot of bad teachers then. It took a great tutor to help me out.

    Languages: The one thing I just learned recently was that Japanese people don't know all kanji (The third writing system and it has 50,000 characters, the other two have 46). I could've used this knowledge when I was wracking my brain in high school and college.

    Least I didn't struggle with te-form.
     
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