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New cooler fuzzy fist. Skeptic, styptic. 14,000 years of interglacial, and hoping we *can* warm the planet, but I doubt it. Pronoun: Caesar, in all cases.

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@oidonhagouda Salt and pepper, plus a Tabasco type sauce on occasion.

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@skdh @WKCosmo He’d have to define whatever the hell he’s talking about with that “material substrate” invocation.

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As the Republican establishment has been blocking the Save America Act, anyone seen as a portion of that intransigence is definitely on the chopping block. They are either base-level Never-Trump, Bill Kristol, Log Cabin shills, or they are bought and paid for by they globalists, or both.

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@benonwine Bureaucrats.

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Large is a somewhat more formal-sounding term, and tends to be emotionally neutral. Big tends toward informal usage, or emotive context. If someone says you made a big mistake, it means you’re now in a bad mess. If someone says you made a large error, they might simply be pointing out you inadvertently dropped an order of magnitude in your calculation.

Children will usually describe things as big, not large.

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@alrobcraws @PeterDClack Thank you. Exactly.

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@newstart_2024 @VoluntaryOnly The U.S. dropped that minimum
Requirement during the latter part of the Vietnam War. The recruits from below the mark died at 3X the average rate.

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@BellaBaddie__ Add a zero. I’m hideous.

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@NoDMsPerfavore Me.

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@WarBot3000 @japan_nobunaga Depends on the particular State. And it may differ urban vs. rural. I’m in Maine and we have a firearms section in our local Super Walmart.

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First, there are two different “tos” in that sentence. The first one indicates the infinitive form of the verb: to take, to be, to do, to think, to run, et cetera. The second is a preposition, indicating motion toward something. I am going to school, as opposed to, I am coming from school (movement away).

Taking out either or both tos makes the sentence very peculiar to our ear, though we would likely get your meaning. “I like take my dog the park.” This is able to be parsed by most people, but definitely marks you as a non-fluent speaker.

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@JimFergusonUK Motive implies reason. He was a Nutter.

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Well, Jackson killed Saruman early at Isengard. How was Sharkey going to show up in the Shire? Lots of knock-on (or -back?) effects as well. Sam doesn’t receive his second gift from Galadriel, the only one of the Fellowship to do so; the box of Lothlorien earth with which he regrew the Shire Trees, etc.

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When I was 11, YouTube came on three channels and appeared at the end of a flat wire that ran up the side of the house to an antenna. At least ten minutes of every hour of content was devoted to influencers. There was one such noteworthy “lifestyles” guy I recall: “The Marlboro Man.” He was on all the channels, all the time, except Saturday mornings.

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@Nick_Davidov @rankdrugs They already do, in many cases apparently.

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Don’t ask about the Chinook winds along the Rockies, usually in winter which can bring the temperature from -20C to +20C in an hour or so. And also the temperature flips in the Great Plains in the spring as they get buried in Canadian Arctic air masses, then get hit with hot, humid Gulf air, and back again.

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@esrtweet @tuuu28283 Then again, here on the coast of Maine Wednesday we were in the mid 80s (30C) and Thursday we barely cracked the 60s (15C).

And I’m from the desert SW where day/night temperature swings can exceed 40F (22C) at any time of year.

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Yup, and yep, are very informal, and tend to be Western US cowboy related. Yeah/yeh/yah variously spelled, is also informal, are much more geographically broadly-based, and also shows up in informal British English. Probably widespread in the U.S. due to the influence of many immigration waves of Germanic speakers with native dialectical and linguistic variants of “ja.” North-Eastern “Yankee” States have a very old-time accent (into the Maine seafaring areas especially) where it becomes “a-yup.” (Pronounced ah-yup.) You can signal certain amounts of regional accent by the particular use of most of these. (Regional accents are getting flattened out in the age of mass media.) For instance, Southern regional dialects have a tendency to make some one-syllable words into two, so you’ll hear ‘yes’ pronouced, “Yay-yus.”

We also grunt or hum assent, “uh-huh,” and negation, “huh-uh,” accent on the huh syllable in both cases, either open mouthed or closed. Closed mouth sounds more like mm-hhm or hhm-mm. “Nuh-uh” is also used for no (tends to signal a rather childish context), as well as “nope.”

Yes and no are usable in all contexts, and are the correct formal words.

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@HedgieMarkets @anagatakaya That almost sounds like Mr. Ponzi has joined the chat.