@holo197510@judeblay For every great uncle you have who owned property you have seven more who lived in pigshit. That’s just how ancestry works. True for all of us.
@KampfgruppeKrag@KubanCossackfan The use of wood itself was conservative, but the actual composite-monocoque construction was very innovative, arguably presaging the use of later composites like carbon fibre.
@cszabla I feel like a lot of students use it and then quietly hate themselves for using it. Kinda the same for smart phones, social media, etc. They know it's ultimately making their lives worse, but they struggle not to use it anyway.
@SamLee The emphasis is in the wrong place, and the double “t” isn’t properly annunciated, but the vowel pronunciations are actually closer to Italian in the American pronunciation. Both are hilariously wrong though, from an Italian perspective.
@IHeartsCYN@jimbojd4 Which is the correct way in Italian. The Italian language has no “æ” sound, so the British pronunciation is categorically incorrect (though Americans need to stop flattening the second “a” into an “ə”)
@botzarelli@YourDudeAedus@jimbojd4 I lived in Italy for three years and speak fluently. Of the two, the American pronunciation of the first “a” is more correct, but both tend to flatten the second “a” into more of an “ə” sound, so neither is really pronouncing it the Italian way.
@buffsoldier_96 Don’t think it’s really right to put an asterisk by City’s when the rules they’re alleged to have broken simply didn’t exist when United won theirs.
@TiltingatM3 You know you're spitting fire when "This is a highly credible real-world threat to do physical harm, punishable in America under 18 USC § 875(c) in the US and in the UK under section 16 of the Offences Against the Person Act" is only the second funniest thing in your essay.
@mcmansionhell@eroscestlavie_x Feel like it's more a subset of America A that the rest of America A wished wasn't part of America A. It's an expression of the resentment we all feel at having to be so online
@JakOSpades@duncanjthomas NARP seems to be the more interesting platform, but I'm assuming it'll primarily come down to factors unrelated to the rifles themselves. At the end of the day a 5.56 rifle is a 5.56 rifle.
@DM_Deluca Okay but by the same token, it's equally insane that European leaders were convinced that a country with the GDP of Spain could meaningfully threaten all of Europe.
@mediocremight@RashmanTheHorse It was a tendency that was widely observed at the time and thus assumed to be a law of capitalism, but Marx never agreed with either Smith or Riccardo's attempted "proofs" of this law, and it's debatable whether his own attempt was successful on it's own terms.