aebletrae [she/her] @ aebletrae @hexbear.net

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It's not just penicillium. There's also aspergillus, the bread fungus that gives you autism.

DEI? More like UTI, amirite?!

Tu doch nicht so blöd!

What can you expect from the language that brought you ought (or), bough (ow), dough (oh), cough (off), rough (uff), through (oo), and thorough (uh), though?

Yeah, the homophone {迂愚|うぐ} is a nice little bonus. And if this is a transitive verb using を, then you'll even get the 'w' sound creeping in from the transition from 'o' to 'u' bringing it phonetically closer to the source too.

A few more of these and we can make an unofficial JLPT level: N6(熊).

It could go either way, but if it curls right up like this⏤𐐘⏤that's a big gay sign, though if it's more like 𐑀 then you're only a liitle gay.

The woke left want to indoctrinate you with Alt(

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This appears to be from a paywalled FT article but the author is given on the Vietnam category page:—

A new reality began to dawn’: the fall of Saigon, 50 years on
Chris Mullin describes the last days of the Vietnam war and the aftermath

I'm assuming there aren't too many Chris Mullins who are journalists writing about Vietnam and, therefore, he is the former MP with a Wikipedia page that gives this context:—

Having reported from Cambodia in 1973 and 1980, in 1990 he was outspoken on the British Government's record in Cambodia, being a leading voice in some of the first protracted debates on Britain's provision of clandestine military support to Khmer terrorists, allied to the Khmer Rouge.

and

his politics shifted leftward in response to the Vietnam War

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He has been highly critical of the American strategy in Vietnam and has stated that he believes that the war, intended to stop the advance of Communism, instead only delayed the coming of market forces in the country

This doesn't read like ignorance to me. Like a lawyer prompting a witness, this seems like someone asking the questions that allow the interviewee to give the most effective replies.

I can't read the "reply was devastating" line as being personally devastating to an ignorant journalist, because someone in that position didn't need to write that and put it on show. Instead I read it as being devastating to the naive sentiment, perhaps held by the reader, that Vietnam's only legitimate response was to run to the UN.

The author has an extensive history with the topic and doesn't appear to be blindly anti-Vietnam, so I think you may have the wrong end of the stick here.

You couldn't, because Eve wasn't called Eve at the time, and because God doesn't deadname trans women.

Original SRS surgeon God creates a woman from male flesh in Genesis 2:22. First ally Adam insists that "she shall be called Woman" in Genesis 2:23. By Genesis 2:25 they're acknowledged as man and wife. But Eve doesn't get her own name until Genesis 3:20, and then that's the only name we ever know her by.

Stream of unconsciousness?

According to Wikipedia, the idea is thousands of years old.

But, worded that way, your point is going to get you into difficulty if you try making that argument with a liberal who fancies themself trained to handle data, and I'd prefer it if you weren't caught off guard like that. You might still waste time clarifying with me, but at least I'm on your side.

Yes, comparing good thing of group 1 to bad thing of group 2 is as disingenuous as comparing bad thing of group 1 to good thing of group 2.

But comparing atypical good thing of group 1 to atypical good thing of group 2 is also fraught with problems, even though—and especially because—it looks like it's legitimate, since it can be described as a like-for-like comparison. This is, for example, how Dubai tries to gloss over its problems: by playing up the fact that it's a modern city just like any other.

The flaw of Art Candee's comparison isn't that it's disingenuous, even though the point (jingoistic supremacy) being made with the flawed comparison certainly is. As far as the comparison goes, the real problem is only that the samples aren't representative.

And comparing modern things enjoyed by a minority in two different places is also unrepresentative. It's very much a false equivalence, every bit as much as comparing terrible things suffered by the worst off in two different places.

To stick with the specific example of Vietnam and the US, these two places really do have genuine differences, as comparisons of representative samples will demonstrate. To compare them on a like-for-like basis, you have to pick and choose your samples and, in doing so, you introduce selection bias, undermining the validity of the comparison. It suggests a sameness that obscures the broader reality.

It's not that you can't, or shouldn't, point out the successes of various groups in their defence. I agree that doing so is important to counter the opposing narratives. But when you do, you shouldn't call them "completely appropriate" "like for like" comparisons because, statistically speaking, they aren't appropriate at all.

TL; DR

When out in the wild, avoid defending your counter-comparisons as "like for like". Instead describe them as highlighting the selection bias of the original claim. You'll keep a couple of gotcha libs at bay that way.

This is all true but...

You have to compare like for like.

In order to avoid creating false equivalences, you have to compare representative samples.

The average American does not live in a shiny NY apartment and commute by metro, but the average resident of Vietnam isn't living in Ho Chi Minh City either.

A Taxi Driver is focused on criticising the authoritarian government of the South in the 1980s. It has the media blaming the uprising on the North, though the film has already shown that to be untrue.

Certainly there's going to be antipathy in some things. The Spy Gone North deals with that head on. But there are plenty of examples where it just doesn't come up at all. It's not like the prerequisite nudity in every single French film.

The Handmaiden and Queen Woo don't, though being set in earlier times does make it a lot harder.

Special Delivery treats the North as somewhere to escape from but isn't harsh on citizens. Pyramid Game is critical of South Korean society and I don't remember the North being mentioned at all. Not sure that it comes up in Barking Dogs Never Bite or Memories of Murder either. Escape From Mogadishu deals with North Korea quite extensively and is kind of even-handed.

Double Indemanatee is a 1944 film noir starring Beluga Stanwyck and Fred MacMereswine.

Since they said "newspaper", they might have meant US protests expose a 'failed state' as officials resort to blame game

Is changing the zoom level (Ctrl-+ or Ctrl-[scroll wheel]) an acceptable solution?

That's why I remembered it.

there is no known life existing without them????

Prokaryotes do not have mitochondria. Prokaryotes outweigh animals about 40:1, so we shouldn't overlook them.

Between them E, T, A, O, I, and N hold the majority of letters in texts. These are the upper class.

Throwing in the S, H, R, D, and L bourgeoisie accounts for more than three quarters.

This leaves C, U, M, W, F, G, Y, P, B, V, K, X, J, Q, and Z to share less than one quarter of the written letters in English.

I'm not sure that the obvious word of the proletariat needs to be used more, though.

How about syzygy?