even leaving out NZ and Hawaiian varieties of English, it’s interesting how colonisation led to Polynesian languages being much more influential on English than say, the Baltic Finnic languages have been
‘Sauna’ and ‘molotov cocktail’ vs ukulele, wiki, tattoo, kiwi, hula, etc
Mississippi is like:
Mississippi Senate: 761 new votes from Adolf Hitler County
🔵 Colom: +755
🔴 Hyde-Smith: +5
⚪ Pinkins: +1
Colom nets 749 votes, expanding his statewide lead to 8,785 at 99.999999937% in. The race is still uncalled.
@pharekore I participated in this thread earlier. This is part of the EDSA rehabilitation program and not related to the ASEAN Summit. For reference, this is at the North part of EDSA and all the ASEAN activities are around the South (Pasay/Parañaque).
https://t.co/q1waWOlRKw
@kuyajons Hindi naman. Sa buslane talaga umpisa ng asphalt-laying nila. Then after that buong lanes na.
Smooth na sa southern portions ng EDSA. Yung northern sections naman ginagawa ngayon.
Novel fare enforcement tactic: Every month, WMATA picks the route with the highest fare evasion rate and announces that it’s going away. The riders have one month to either get out of the bottom spot or the service ends. Repeat each month.
This stems from an archaic concept that all residents of a county should be able to reach the County Seat and return home within 1 day on horseback.
Hence why county density is WAY higher in the eastern half of the US
For those unaware, a himejoshi posted a suicidal tweet saying something like "I'm just a burden on everyone" the same day Chicago Bears player Luther Burden got injured, so Bears fans searching for injury updates found her and basically adopted her into their fandom