"Nouns can have three different genders and four different cases. Verbs also have a lot of different forms. The exact meaning of a sentence relies on the correct use of gender and case pertained to the eventual meaning, affecting how humour can be delivered. Basically, it’s harder to pun in German when the grammar makes things so much less ambiguous." BBC
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Yes, 3.6 more years to sit on the sofa eating vegan junk food...
"And the old hippies were right—sticking with a plants-only diet for the long run had the most benefits. People on a vegetarian diet for more than 17 years increased their life expectancy by 3.6 years, compared to short-term vegetarians who saw smaller benefits." Vice
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"That white resentment simply found a new target for its ire is no coincidence; white identity is often defined by its sense of being ever under attack, with the system stacked against it. That’s why Mr. Trump’s policies are not aimed at ameliorating white resentment, but deepening it. His agenda is not, fundamentally, about creating jobs or protecting programs that benefit everyone, including whites; it’s about creating purported enemies and then attacking them." NY Times
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Of course, it's still monstrous to choke someone to death even if they *are* trying to swallow drugs... :/
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"All of this pointed to a stunning conclusion: despite being more complex than sponges and placozoans – which lacked nerve cells and muscles and virtually every other specialised cell type – ctenophores were actually the earliest, oldest branch on the animal tree of life. Somehow over the subsequent 550 to 750 million years, the ctenophore had managed to evolve a nervous system and muscles similar in complexity to those of jellyfish, anemones, sea stars and many types of worms and shellfish, cobbled together from an alternative set of genes."
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The idea of the (invariably male) geek is uniquely talented at coding and other technical skills is a particularly Western cultural construct.
"While only 16% of computer science undergraduates in the UK – and a similar proportion in the US – are female, the balance is different in India, Malaysia and Nigeria. “I walk into a classroom in India and it’s more than 50% girls, the same in Malaysia... They are so passionate about coding, Lots of women love coding. There just aren’t these gender differences there.”"
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"Onstage intimacy and fighting have a lot in common. In fact, many intimacy directors started in stage combat." Leo Weekly
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"Ask a white-collar professional what it means to do a good job at the office, and odds are they’ll need at least a few minutes to explain their answer, accounting for politics, the opinion of their boss, the mood of their client, the role of their team, and a variety of other external factors. Ask someone what it means to do a good job at their next race, however, and the answer becomes much simpler." Outside
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Kind of unethical on the part of the speculators, but I can't help laughing at the prospect of some of San Francisco's richest residents losing access to their own sidewalks! :D
Also, this: "There’s a bit of irony in the couple’s purchase. Until a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning the enforcement of racial covenants, homes in Presidio Terrace could be purchased only by whites." (The couple are both of Asian descent)
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If there's any comfort to be had in all this mess, it's from realising that the far right are usually so breathlessly, tragicomically incompetent.
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Kind of an awesome study
"The team hypothesized that people who hear voices would be more likely to “believe” in auditory hallucinations. That’s precisely what they found: Both the schizophrenics and self-described psychics were nearly five times more likely to say they heard the nonexistent tone than healthy controls. They were also about 28% more confident that they had heard the tone when none was there"
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Clearly the cops in this country are much more concerned about enforcing meaningless 'brothel keeping' and immigration laws than they are about actually protecting sex workers :(
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Just learned this term, and it is great! The use of spiritual practice to avoid difficult emotions (both at the level of individuals, and of hippie culture generally disallowing certain expressions of emotion)
"We need to remember that spiritual practice and emotional growth are not about achieving a particular quality of feeling ("good"). Being a human being on a spiritual journey isn't about getting cash and prizes all the time, it is about being in the present moment, whatever it happens to look like. What are you experiencing right now? And how about now? Can you be present to all of your feelings without any one of them defining you?"
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