> Another Weibo user using the handle Adagier said she lost her husband to the coronavirus and had since been contacted by police warning her not to be too emotional - and to stop posting online.
Many customers used to come to our Bank office to search where their checks were. I used to tell them, go to the room where checks are truncating.
Wikipedia defines cheque truncation:
Cheque truncation (check truncation in American English) is a cheque clearance system that involves the dig...
Interesting, though, that one can "go to the room where checks are truncating"—like eggs incubating, maybe, a quiet process that checks go through when left undisturbed.
@M.A.R. I wasn't fearmongering. I just shared something I'd read. I wouldn't be surprised if it's true, given China's rather casual attitude toward the truth.
Especially when the truth reflects poorly on the government.
Well, that's a news organization's job, isn't it? Raising concerns about whatever? Sometimes they go too far, but they are the only recourse a democracy has against totalitarianism. Look how Trump attacks them at every turn. That alone ought to convince you they're serving a vital function.
Everyone was concerned about Iran's fatality rate at the beginning. A couple dozen cases, a dozen deaths. "It's definitely much worse there" Now that death/cases looks normal-ish, they'd find another excuse to raise concerns
It just seems like the concerns are the ends, not the reasoning
The same thing goes on over here, of course, and also in China
The ultimate result is polarization and hatred. I'm not talking about you, or the other participants in this chat, of course. People whose brain capacity is closer to mine are a different matter though.
I'm not saying news outlets don't hype things for readership. When you see a headline saying an asteroid is going to smack into the earth next week, and then you read elsewhere that it's going to pass by safely 16 times the distance between the earth and the moon, you know that's just sensationalism. The point is, without a free press you can't find the truth at all. They turn up false positives, but at least they are able to turn up the truth as well.
One has to take the bitter with the sweet.
That asteroid headline actually appeared in my news feed a while ago, from the Internatioinal Business Times. I've since told Google I don't want to see crap from that organization anymore.
Main site allows dark mode now as a beta. Not sure if you have to be invited. I tried it, not sure it works for me, but then again, I'm old-fashioned. Or just old.
It's all about saving battery life on MacBooks, which is not my problem anyway.
So when I use this code everything works just fine:
import * as React from 'react';
import { Button, Image, View, TouchableOpacity, StyleSheet, TouchableWithoutFeedback, KeyboardAvoidingView, SimpleAnimation, Text, TextInput} from 'react-native';
import * as ImagePicker from 'expo-image-pi...
how many common,proper,collective,and personal nouns are in this letter?Dearest Emma,I have decided to spend some time with my brother and nephew.I have taken the train and expect to stay for a while.I will think about you whilst among the crowd.You will experience unhappiness at this but you wil...
@M.A.R. I don't know, but I will think about that whilst among the crowd.
@Robusto I honestly didn't know up until watching that video that you guys had to pay for calling an ambulance.
Like what the actual fuck.
All the other stuff I either knew about, or, you know, that thing about holding your child after giving birth to it, and some of the other stuff, I took that with a grain of salt. Like, it's probably only the case in 3 out 50 states, and probably exists for some reason, that might be really really stupid but probably isn't pure spite.
But calling for help. Jesus fucking Christ.
Like, if I prank call 911 here, I get to pay. Thousands of Euros I believe. Can be tens of thousands if they send a fire brigade or a whole bunch of police.
But if I'm genuinely calling for help for whatever reason, they send help for free.
I was worried about putting him on the couch and going to bed myself. First off, he has a medical history. And always takes some medication. No idea what he even had to take at the time.
Second off, you can vomit in your sleep and suffocate.
I'm not having none of that in my home. You come here, this is a safe place. You will not die. Basic human courtesy.
Actually, I had some additional expenses I now recall. I asked the ambulance if I should come with them, they said no. I sat here for twenty minutes, then decided to call another cab and drove to the hospital myself. I had had the presence of mind to ask them which one they'd be taking him to.
So I was there at like four in the morning. Talked to a nurse. She had a thick Russian accent for some reason.
Then I called a third cab back home.
It was a glorious night.
@Robusto yeah quite so, but that one was specifically about guns. I don't think it was Bowling for Columbine though, was it now. I don't remember.
At the end he walks up to some private Canadian home and knocks on the door and someone comes to the door and he asks them, so you won't shoot me now? and they laugh.
Which is quite a dick move to be honest, but then again that's Michael Moore for you.
Yeah. My wife and I are constantly looking for things to watch on Netflix, and very often we encounter things we've watched part of but don't remember a single thing about.
The last two hundred films that I wanted to watch, I just watched critiques of them instead. And I must say I remember more about them than I would had I actually watched them.
Mind you, not all critics agreed with my opinion about those movies that I never watched. But that's critics for you.
There was recently a young man here who died from coronavirus because he didn't have health insurance.
That is fucking barbaric.
When you get to the hospital—I know, because I've been there—the very first thing they do is ask to see your insurance card.
Ten years ago I had a stroke. I walked into the ER and said "I think I'm having a stroke." They asked to see my insurance card, and spent like 10 minutes getting that shit squared away.
I haven't checked. Might well be that they are on the rise. Or saw a huge spike at least in the first few weeks where everyone was going huhuh memes lol.
You don't have to continue on with Big Leg Emma unless you really want to. In which case maybe you should listen to the whole album from the beginning.
> Hello, I'm a middle school student. I wish to be able to compose great music and play that music in high school. I wonder if this song sounds good enough to be played at a high school orchestra.
I'm afraid I am unable to explain it better than the dictionary.
The definition says "suddenly, spontaneously, impulsively".
That is a very good explanation.
Which of these words do you struggle to understand. If it is all three, I'm afraid ultimately I would have to link you to their dictionary definitions as well.
Many customers used to come to our Bank office to search where their checks were. I used to tell them, go to the room where checks are truncating.
Wikipedia defines cheque truncation:
Cheque truncation (check truncation in American English) is a cheque clearance system that involves the dig...
So when I use this code everything works just fine:
import * as React from 'react';
import { Button, Image, View, TouchableOpacity, StyleSheet, TouchableWithoutFeedback, KeyboardAvoidingView, SimpleAnimation, Text, TextInput} from 'react-native';
import * as ImagePicker from 'expo-image-pi...
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English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…