@CowperKettle I'd go with decline over reject. Reject suggests there is something wrong with the products. See the dictionary definition.
Refuse is also ok, I think. Though neither of them sound like a perfect match to the context.
@Færd Feels a bit nonstandard, but not obviously wrong. Personally I'd go with something like "fundamentally".
@skullpatrol Cheery stuff indeed, though in the case of India, the possible variance is huge. Because India is India.
For example, there is some evidence locally (here in Bombay) that the BMC is faking tests in order to get more money from... someone. I wonder if anyone else had this bright idea.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I liked Person of Interest too. Though I didn't make it all the way to the end. Too upsetting watching everyone get killed off.
Not what I'd normally choose to watch, but so much of US TV is people running around with guns, or procedural stuff, or both. Some days I'd like to watch a nice relaxing drama about English Literature critics.
Though, come to think of it, David Lodge already covered that.
But he hasn't got much love from Hollywood, poor man.
The Assange case is particularly notable because of the light is shines on what the people who run the world are really like, and what upsets them. Very instructive. Not the only such example, but a noteworthy one without a doubt.
Since when did imitative mean onomatopoeic? If Oxford can use it, I don't understand why I've had to complicate such things all these years...too many words.
@CowperKettle You are assuming they don't know which is unlikely. But my point is that no matter how unpleasant one spouse may be, that is no reason to also publicly post a picture of the other. What if his wife is now attacked on the street?
They should have blacked out the wife's face as they did the daughter's.
@terdon Yes, they should have, but they are a random and poorly organized group of semi-hackers. Belarus has no entrenched organized opposition, so I guess all kinds of things may happen randomly as Lukashenko gets more and more oppressive.
It's good that thus far there was no violence from the protesters.
@terdon Text you can skim. Speech you can play at double the normal speed (and also skim).
That's how I save time listening to podcasts and videos in Farsi. In English, I normally can't go beyond 1.5x, unless I'm familiar with the speaker's accent, intonation, and idialect.
Too bad it's not possible in real-time convo.
Oh your text is also a 40-minute read!
@terdon Sometimes I think Twitter should have mods too, like Reddit and SE do.
I dunno. Twitter has been a real nice experience for me for the past couple years (mostly). On it, I've met good friends (whom I later met in person), had informative conversations, learnt from other people's conversations (and altercations), participated in political activism, put together a book club, and met a girlfriend.
I'm not saying twitter is bad (or good), only that I, personally, am very uncomfortable with how public our lives have become and I don't like participating in any form of social media.
@Robusto inorite. If I were really charitable, I might fantasize that maybe it's there to help with the "quasi". You can't play the passage too fast if you're forced to play it like a grandpa typing his first email.
But you know as I do that I'm clutching at straws there.
Never attribute to benevolence that which is adequately attributed to Bartók.
When we were in school, a deskmate said during a history class that in September 1812 Napoleon called Tzar Alexander by phone from Moscow to St Petersburg to demand surrender.
If you had told teenage me that one day I would have a pocket-sized device that could hold and play an entire music collection I'd have thought "What sorcery is this?"
Or that you could play any music from anywhere by anyone anytime you wanted.
The whole "vinyl is better" argument is total bullshit.
Even if vinyl and digital were equal in sound reproduction, which they are not (digital is decidedly superior), there is the matter of surface noise and scratches and pops.
And the fact that you have to sit yourself in a chair in front of a turntable, amp and speakers.
2050 kids: I can't believe in the old days back in the 2020's you had to do this thing called 'downloading' to listen to any music. What does that even mean?
2090 kids: haha those dopes in the 50's with their 'listening' with what they used to call .. haha get this... 'ears'. Wild, what a goofball idea.
When I was a child, there was too little information. Now there is too much. It's overwhelming. Still, I prefer the latter problem.
@Mitch One medium-sized nuclear war, and that will be that for music listening. Possibly most electronic devices will stop working. I'm not really sure of the implications.
I know about EMPs, but that would be a one-time type thing.
> But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud For man's been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud And we know for certain that some lovely day Someone will set the spark off And we will all be blown away
> The whole world is festering with unhappy souls The french hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch And I don't like anybody very much
When we just downvote new contributors, it makes us assholes; it just does. I've done it before, and recently...I felt I was justified for some reason, but it's a shit move. It really is.
@KannE if you don't emotionally detach yourself, you're constantly going to feel like one, and it probably seeps elsewhere too. Content rating is really tricky.
I do realize that new users are often unable to detach themselves like this, or find out how to do better, so it feels like a hand came from a time portal and necked me and ran away
@Robusto I don't do much on any SE site these days, but I've seen too much meta to think of the arrows as anything other than personal quality evaluations. I'd be ashamed if I sympathy-upvote a terrible question, or prevent Roomba from taking care of it by not downvoting it.
Usercards are often just blurry. My mind skips them unless it's meta.
@Robusto These days I'm helping take care of my grandma that has short term memory loss and depression, and one of her only enjoyments during the day is a cup of tea. I never drank tea, but I find myself tempted sometimes
@M.A.R. Well, it would be churlish to deny her such a pleasure. I would do the same in your position, and would drink tea if it made her happy to share such a moment.
@RegDwigнt: BTW, speaking of the "Gsus chord" and Adam Neely, you get extra points if you can tell the name of the movie that avatar of JC came from, and what that avatar was called.