Two things about English.

First, English is not one language, it’s a mix of several different languages with loanwords stolen from eveey culture encoutered. Grammar and conjugation is entirely inconsistent because it is based on Romance languages, Germanic languages, and Greek.

Second, English is descriptive, not proscriptive. In other words, there are no rules to pronunciation or spelling. English words are spelled and pronounced the way English speakers spell and pronounce them. That’s how England and America can end up with such disparate spellings and pronunciations. If you are understood, you have spoken English. When new pronunciations and spellings become commonly used, they are added to the dictionary. When speaking and writing styles change, so do the rules of grammar.

Sure, but that’s why my first call is a lawyer. Establish an iron-clad alibi, and point out that I don’t have United Health Insurance or any medical debt, bring in my doctor who says my arthritis would prevent me from riding a bike that far, package all that up into a single irrefutable tweet and then go have a primetime interview with a cable news reporter. You can’t trust the cops, but if you make it known that you are in the photo and you didn’t do it, they will hopefully leave you alone.

Let’s just call him L Simpson… no wait, that’s too obvious. Lisa S.

Thing is, everyone has seen this photo by now. The person in the photo has seen the photo. People who know him have seen the photo. If it were a photo of me, I’d be like, “Oh shit, I better call a lawyer because these cops think I killed someone” and call to clear up the mistake. I’d let everyone know that’s a pic of me, but I am not the murderer.

Nobody has done that yet.

That looks an awful lot like the present.

The trouble with that theory is that there are just as many dipshit conservatives who want the fascism. They hate America and Americans and want to rule them in the name of their god.

But I want the directions, I just don’t want them louder than the music. It’s a basic feature for all Android devices, and the Google Pixel is the only phone that has this defect.

The last Halloween episode I watched was the one where Maggie was a witch and turned everyone into pacifiers. I looked it up.

I think it’s more like, people who have transitioned from having no money, where money would solve a lot of problems, to having money, where those problems have been replaced with other problems, and they are shocked to discover that having money doesn’t eliminate all problems. Even if they have fewer problems than they did when they had no money, their current problems are more frustrating because they expected to have fewer problems with more money.

I haven’t watched a new episode of the show in over ten years. It’s one of my favorite shows of all time.

I hadn’t thought of it until you mentioned all the public shootings, but a lot of mass shooters just want to be remembered for something. Turning the New York shooter into a folk hero is going to inspire a lot of armed crazy people.

Makes me wonder if now we get reasonable gun control.

It is easy to find. But people were sharing screenshots from their website with their names and photos. This makes it marginally harder to tweet out their info.

Now that you mention it, I have no idea if Iceland was uninhabited when the Dutch or the Vikings or whoever showed up. So maybe not entirely non violent.

Considering all other android devices can do it, it really makes Google seem deficient.

Kaiser Permanente is the largest HMO in California, where state healthcare regulations are stricter than other states, and they have an individual mandate that comes with actual penalties. They are one of the least evil health insurance companies, but they are still health insurance, an inherently evil concept that leeches value from the healthcare industry at the cost of human lives.

That’s not to say any of them deserve death. But if the death of one is making them all reconsider their life choices, then we’ll call that a silver lining in a dark cloud.

Iceland became independent largely without violence.

And, um… yeah that’s about it.

TIL thanks. That’s still a shitty workaround, first because it takes three menus inside of settings, something I’d rather not adjust while driving. And that’s just the one app. I appreciate the tip, but my gripe with Google remains unabated.

My mother is fairly religious, and she occasionally offers to take the kids to Sunday school. We decline, but sometimes we go attend her church for Christmas and Easter or if she’s singing a solo. Our kids are 9 and 11 and are both familiar with Christianity, and have a general understanding of most other religions. We haven’t told them what to believe, but we explained what we believe and that everyone gets to choose what they believe. They know grandma is a Christian, and they know I’m not.

I know my mom is disappointed that we aren’t doing more to indoctrinate our kids, but she has enough faith in Jesus to reach them, and I have enough faith in them to make good decisions either way.

Yiddish and German are like Spanish and Portuguese. They are of course different languages, but there is a lot of overlap in vocabulary. I don’t know which language was the vector for the word.

Really? How?