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

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.

 

This has to be seen to be believed. It’s worse than the description. These guys are complete sociopaths.

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Seriously.....Secret Service should start asking that dude some questions...

 

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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Oh Lord, this cop

“Free men don’t ask for permission”

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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.”

 

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.

 

Clowns, both of them. Also cringy having a lady bringing them drinks whom by the way they dont even thank. Very alpha male!

 

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.

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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.

 

Seems this scenario is certainly on his mind a lot.

 

It's never to late to learn to diagram a sentence.

 

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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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..."

 

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.

 

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.

 

Mocking women or erasing them?

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Speaking of leftists, this was in Michigan the other day.

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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.