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Raphael

very cool, both of them; its also more proof that Kelly Hu would have been an awesome Doctor Who. I suspect that most of those Chinese and Chinese-descended people who live in the West and have the surname "Hu" have heard the predictable "So you're the one who let the dogs out!"...

Raphael

in a hurry, are you? first you're moaning that things are getting worse, and now you're pissed that recovery isn't instantaneous? Well, yes, that's the central problem here, right? In malloc's psychology it always has to be either puppies and rainbows and unicorns, or sulphuric acid raining from th...

Raphael

(1) And *why* do larger and larger parts of the working class no longer trust traditional left parties? Could it be because those parties betrayed them by backstabbing their unions and choosing to become the party of educated professionals instead? Why do you expect the working class to have loyalt...

Raphael

Yay, tax declarations. At least you only had one to wrangle... I had four this year, and it was "fun". Netherlands, because of emigration; Luxembourg, which was optional, but refund; US federal, because I have a US passport; and North Carolina state, because I'm domiciled in NC per US law...

Raphael

hwhatting wrote: ↑Tue May 13, 2025 4:40 am
That was me, nice that you still remember that. It's what, 15 years ago?

18 years, IIRC.

Raphael

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 7:52 am OK, people, I'm about to try to make sense of my taxes. Wish me luck.

I think I'm done.

Raphael

The UK is having the same problems as America with deindustrialization, falling unionization rates, the working class unaligning from the traditional left party, etc. The US is the canary in the coal mines for the UK. If the UK continues down the same current path, they will eventually get their ow...

Raphael

@zompist: If you look at, say, homicide rates - they are significantly higher in poor countries with weak (underfunded, corrupt etc.) law enforcement. OK, here's are some countries which have a lower homicide rate than the US : Kenya, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, Turkey, India, Bangladesh, Azerbaija...

Raphael

More congratulations!

Raphael

If only we had some technology, a "hypertext markup language" if you will, that allowed humans, desktop computers, and smartphones to all read the same document, reformatting it to fit the screen available... ah well, we can dream... I'd say the problem with html is that it requires most ...

Raphael

Thank you for showing me that I'm not alone.

Unless you actually want to print out a document, I don't see the point of having it in pdf format. epub is a lot more user-friendly.

Raphael

An observation and a question, both technology-related. I've noticed three things about the internet in our time: 1) A lot of interesting or sometimes downright important documents published on the internet are only available in pdf format 2) More and more people use smartphones as one of their main...

Raphael

Darren wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 5:34 pm For TNG (at least some of which is legit), we know just about the words for "louse", "egg" and a couple of pronouns, but that doesn't mean they just said "me louse you egg, heh heh?" all the time.

Raphael

I'd say in our time, it comes down to the argument between the three definitions you list. And I don't think it's possible to give a "purely linguistic" definition of politically loaded terms. (This might be another case where zompist's old "Never define" rant is relevant: https:...

Raphael

Wait - did the Trump Administration just manage it to actually get something good done? What little I've heard so far makes me seriously curious about what I and the world in general haven't heard yet. (Posted here instead of in the US politics thread because it is, after all, about South Asia.) Wh...

Raphael

Wait - did the Trump Administration just manage it to actually get something good done? What little I've heard so far makes me seriously curious about what I and the world in general haven't heard yet. (Posted here instead of in the US politics thread because it is, after all, about South Asia.)

Raphael

On a lighter note, I just discovered this at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists List of lists of lists From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "List of lists" redirects here. For a non-comprehensive list of Wikipedia lists, see Wikipedia:Contents/Lists. For all l...

Raphael

Sorry for reviving this thread after such a long intermission, but I just have to note how sick* I find this: Pro-Israel guy in the UK claims that starving people is good for them because it reduces obesity: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/uk-lawyers-for-israel-condemned-over-claim-war...

Raphael

Which ⟨th⟩, and what upper class English pronounciation? I'm not aware of a major change between RP and SSBE in that pronounciation of either phoneme¹⁴, The voiceless [θ], of thistle , ether and thigh sounds anything like a [z], so I assume you mean the voiced [ð], of this , either & thy , whic...

Raphael

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 12:47 pm
What do those of us who know something about Peru know about him?

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