@Færd the nth world always had a priority like meaning to me. Like, these guys are the 1st world, they're frontrunners of humanity and 3rd world people's needs come last
I've been a vegetarian for 25 years and I couldn't give half a fuck what everyone else eats. And conversely, many people are not even aware that I'm a vegetarian, because well why should they. Who the fuck cares.
I know what photos I take. Everyone else's, well they are not mine. I'm not looking at those.
@Robusto but that right there is a response to advertising, duh. The only appropriate response, mind, but a response nonetheless.
I've been reporting all Grammarly ads as offensive for a full year now, and I'm still getting served them.
Likewise, people are still trying to sell me cars. Or more to the point, buy mine. Everyone keeps complaining how the Facebook ad network will spy on you and learn everything about you, yet it's been a full decade and they still don't know that I've never owned a car or even just a driver's license.
Facebook is a collection of two hundred thousand idiots who can't even remember the data I openly give them in plain text. Like my gender. Every single email I get from them starts "Dear Mr or Ms Reginald Kenneth Dwight".
Never mind flying cars, it's almost 2020 and people still can't pull a single value from a table.
What do you think of their replacements: developed and developing?
As to Near Middle Far East, everything is 'my ethnicity' centric. How can you fault the Chinese for calling their country literally 'The Middle Kingdom' because they are certainly in the middle of their stuff.
and isn't Morocco/Algeria called the Maghreb in Arabic which is 'the west' in English?
But I've never been able to figure out exactly what is near, middle, and far East. Which country is in which? I don't know.
@Mitch Good point. But I think that's all okay as long as Moroccans don't have to think of themselves as "west of somebody else" rather than "here". I don't know about them, but if you ask any Iranian schoolchild what region this is, they would say "the Middle East", instead of "West Asia" or some such term.
@Mitch They're all the same place to you, so far-off in the New World, ain't they? :) These are Wikipedia's Middle and Far Easts:
Near East is apparently obsolete and replaced with Middle East and other terms.
I prefer West/Central/East/South/etc Asia, of course.
This is Wikipedia's Western Asia, which includes the region of Palestine:
@Færd But the pattern we're working with is Eurocentrism, and they're all to the east (even Morocco!) so they must be 'something' East. Must. They must fit that pattern.
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I feel like you're trying to tell me something here, but all I feel like doing is digging my toes into the pebbles and writing my name in them.
So, I'm finally going to be getting around to watching Endgame in theaters - with small children.
Without spoilers, when, during this over-three-hours movie, would be a good time to take an intermission? Looking for answers like "N minutes in from Marvel logo" or some recognizable opening to a s...
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ That brings up an important astronomical physics problem. All those pictures of stars orbiting the black hole at the center of (some? our?) galaxy, swirling around in their own orbits. Why weren't they all swept out by now, each smaller one eaten up by large and larger remaining ones?
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ with small children? Under 7 yrs old might be too young.
Ah, sorry! I forgot about our.. khm.. image-challenged folks
> When something ends, another something starts, What you can't get in whole you get in parts, Caressing limbs instead of caring hearts, So runs the round of life from hour to hour.
When something starts, another something ends, And to the one who weren't among your friends, Your false affair romantically ends: Two graves grass-green beside a gray church-tower.
It's quite easy
The stolen lines are in stark contrast to my poor work
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