Zompist Bboard Again

just watched Kajillionaire (2020). i think this is miranda july's best movie yet

i used to do it, i was part of a group of leftist nations who would raid fascist regions to take them over, but that was a long time ago, now i just work on building up my pizza delivery industry

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yeah, i don't think the question is really "why did so many people go to trump", because they didn't. obviously the numbers aren't finalized yet but as of right now trump gained about a million voters over his popular vote count in 2020, while harris's count is 9 million shorter than biden...

Not a native English speaker, but I was wondering if this difference is reflected in the way you pronounce "and" in English, that is /ænd/ vs the reduced form /ən/. This is definitely true of the English here ─ there commonly is a meaning difference between /æn(d)/ and /(ə)n/ of the sort ...

Unless the last uncounted votes decisively turn for Harris, to all those who voted for Trump, I really hope you enjoy the dictatorship you've chosen. Unfortunately everyone else has to enjoy it too, and not just you alone. Each and every American eligible to vote who did not vote for Harris should ...

I pronounce "Halloween" like in "hallow". The other pronunciation may have originated by analogy with "hollow", although the word "Halloween" has no etymological relation to "hollow". In cot-caught merged varieties, it may also result from spelling ...

/ɑ ~ a/, never /æ/ (i do hear the latter sometimes but it's definitely less common than the former around here)

what is your plan to get them to get them to move back to the left? My plan for it to move to the left is for Trump to bite the dust (he's old, it'll happen sooner or later), so the MAGA personality cult dissolves without its epicenter. that's arguably a way the republicans can dance slightly back ...

Your points 1, 1A, and 1B simply follow from the fact that the US has a first-past-the-post system. They wouldn't be true if we had a parliamentary system with proportional representation, where then it would make sense to vote for a third party in hopes that the Dems would be forced to form a coal...

no one here is arguing that trump is better than harris. no one is saying trump is going to be better for palestine than harris. you keep bringing this up as if it's something that's not understood so i think we might be talking past each other. honestly i was gonna bow out of this thread but i ende...

I can't make sense of the order the flags come in. Austria comes between American Samoa and Australia, which suggests this is based on the countries' English names. But others make no sense. Why does Andorra and UAE (?) come before Afghanistan? i believe the flags are in order based on the iso coun...

You miss the point. As a socialist, I could be like jcb here and insist that I will only support any candidates that support socialism. But frankly that would a pet issue of mine, and doing so would only have negative consequences while not accomplishing bringing about said pet issue. By the way a ...

You know, you can delete your posts after you have written them... provided no one posts afterwards (like I am doing now). To go and write a post and instead of deleting it replacing it with a single period when you could have deleted it... what point are you trying to make? i was working on rewrit...

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i am struggling to write a response that doesn't come off as condescending as yours did, but to start with, genocide is not a "pet issue", jesus christ. yes, some issues are in fact more urgent than others and should be clear-cut lines in the sand, and an ongoing active genocide that we ar...

good point, people whose families are being slaughtered en masse in an ongoing genocide should vote for the candidate who is funding, arming, and abetting that same genocide and who has promised to continue doing so if re-elected, because if they don't then someone else might be elected who is also ...

depends on which 50 years — look at 1950 vs 2000!

Maybe boring Latin (in some weird graffiti font): Perrx T [9] egc Sounds like a tag to me. hmm. i'm not ruling it out but the rest of the tag (shown below) is in very unambiguous english so i suspect the top text is something else. (sorry for the bad cropping, i couldn't figure out how to reduce th...

honestly i debated posting this in ephemera but i can see this thread being useful (or turned into a game like Name That Language). saw this graffiti in a parking lot and i'm wondering if anyone can tell what (if any) script the writing at the top is in, above the word CHICKEN IMG_20240929_150340950...