The frog leaps to a nearby lily pad, edging nearer to the stream's bank. It spies a fly, jumps, snatches it from the air, and gobbles it down with a contented swallow.
Art exhibition New artists360983. While completing her purchase, she spotted a wall adorned with handwritten notes and artwork left by visitors over several years. These brief messages all conveyed appreciation for the shop's tranquil ambiance and its distinct artistic collectio
Sanatorium with family: Rest and health. Stepping out to wander the streets allows for integration into the urban rhythm. Feeling the interplay of bustle and leisure makes life more layered and vivid.⛰
@HilzFuld This is literally the inverse of the truth.
Without the money Washington borrowed from Haym Solomon to rout Cornwallis during the Yorktown campaign, and the vast sums plus troops France threw into the effort because of Solomon, the USA wouldn’t have existed.
@MagaJewShaman76@Maccabi226km I’m so glad someone with a middle school-level understanding of biology has made their voice known. 👀
Since you’re on a roll… Have you tried “freeing” a fake country by shouting racist slogans about a minority group yet today? 🤡
@EFischberger There are <500 Christian Qatari citizens. Conversion from Islam to Christianity is legally and socially restricted for Qatari citizens and punished worse for expatriates. The ~400k Christians in Qatar are expatriates - most Filipino, Indian, or from various parts of Africa / Asia
@mjinko_ie@VerminusM Bibi is annoyed with people recognizing a politically nonexistent entity in any practical way. The Palestinian state has no clear boundaries or sovereign territorial claims, no clear singular claim to legitimate leadership in an environment bifurcated between Fatah and Hamas.
@mjinko_ie@VerminusM Somalia isn’t a functional country. That’s why Somaliland broke back off, after unification many years ago. Israel was the first country to recognize Somaliland the first time it incorporated in 1960 and was symbolically excited to repeat that first recognition. Somaliland works.
@reider The phrase אלו החיים is about accepting reality as it is in a particular moment. It is better translated as “These are [the circumstances of] our lives.” And yes, what happened to that man is terrible. But learn to translate better. 2/2
@reider The connotative difference between c’est la vie and אלו החיים is VAST. I’d like Bibi to retire but this is a disingenuous translation. C’est la vie is centered around attitudinal nonchalance … 1/2
@a_h_reaume Why do you keep pointing people to an essay with such a lack of engagement with counterpoint in it? If this is a serious argument we should take seriously, surely there’s writing on the topic w less publication bias.
@a_h_reaume Multiple groups seeing their own people’s experiences of oppression and crisis in dystopian literature is a sign of successful dystopian literature. (Particularly if you’re Margaret Atwood, who has explicitly stated that she only writes about things w basis in the past/present.)