Do you ever think about Madrid in the 1960s? The exiled SS members. The Pétainist officers from the milice rubbing elbows with O.A.S plotters and eccentric businessmen seeking mercenaries for campaigns against communists in africa alongside all manner of soviet and american spooks and spies.
Chinese Ambassador to the EU Fu Cong stated on April 5 that the Russian–Chinese joint statement declaring there were “no limits” to their ties released in February 2022 was misrepresented, calling “no limits” a “purely rhetorical statement.” Fu added that China does not support Russia’s war in Ukraine and is not providing Russia weapons.
there are no limits on their relationship up to a certain limit
Yes Minister moment
Refusing Putin’s load at the no-loads-refused cumdump
Any thoughts on Ken in the barbie movie being your age? I was surprised by that decision but I can't really complain, I think to a kid everyone in a certain age range is just a "grownup" and they wouldn't see much difference between 18yrold vs 40yrold ken
I mean yes, I approve of “the concept of the ideal American boyfriend” being coded closer to me
Well the UK government is reminding people just how much they fucking hate disabled people: they’re going to be telling doctors to give out less sick notes to “boost the number of people in work”. Now let’s just remember the number of people signed off sick relative to the working population is functionally negligible, so this policy is targeting one group and one group only: the disabled. This will push people who mustn’t work into work and it will cause deaths.
We are reminded time and time again that the Westminster government is institutionally ableist (among so many other things) and if they could erase disabled people, they would in a heartbeat.
From an American perspective, the fact that your politicians can tell your doctors to ration sick days is not something that makes moving to a single payer medical system seem like an unreservedly positive choice.
A payment made by employers to qualifying employees who are off sick for four or more days in a row, including weekends and holidays. It is not payable for the first three days in any period of entitlement but thereafter is payable for up to 28 weeks at a weekly rate subject to current limits.
Well the UK government is reminding people just how much they fucking hate disabled people: they’re going to be telling doctors to give out less sick notes to “boost the number of people in work”. Now let’s just remember the number of people signed off sick relative to the working population is functionally negligible, so this policy is targeting one group and one group only: the disabled. This will push people who mustn’t work into work and it will cause deaths.
We are reminded time and time again that the Westminster government is institutionally ableist (among so many other things) and if they could erase disabled people, they would in a heartbeat.
From an American perspective, the fact that your politicians can tell your doctors to ration sick days is not something that makes moving to a single payer medical system seem like an unreservedly positive choice.
In Japanese, I’m told, a slight modification in one word or reference changes a sentence entirely, so that— I don’t know Japanese, I’m making this up— if a syllable changes in one word, then “the crickets are singing in chorus in the starlight” becomes “the taxicabs are in gridlock at the intersection.” I gather that Japanese poetry uses these almost-double meanings deliberately. A line of poetry can be translucent, as it were, to another meaning it could have if it were in a different context. The surface significance allows a possible alternate significance to register at the same time.
does anyone know if this is a real thing UKLG is referring to? if so, word for it, examples?
which looks like is just “japanese has a lot of homophones and poets will use them for artistic effect,” more or less the same as they will in english
Yeah a lot of it is that Japanese (a non-tonal language) repeatedly borrowed words from tonal Chinese, stripping them of tone (so that several words once distinct were now identical) and then re-borrowed the same roots centuries later after meaning and pronunciation had drifted, with the result that there are a ton of words that sound the same and punning is a major feature of Japanese-language culture.
It is huge in Japanese poetry (where the regular suffixed conjugation makes end rhyme trivial), the most honored stuff – even stuff you might be familiar and impressed with – translates poorly because you can only translate one meaning at a time, lacking the centuries of cultural context that would make the others even make sense.
Often the Chinese borrowings were primarily in a literary written context and semantic drift between the borrowings, Chinese language sounds, and Japanese sounds had proceeded differently in terms of written characters and sound. Sometimes the borrowings were from dialects that used completely different sounds for the same characters.
Haiku developed from a form of battle rap where competitors alternated verses and the goal was to continue the poem while retroactively forcing reinterpretations of your opponent’s lines
In Japanese, I’m told, a slight modification in one word or reference changes a sentence entirely, so that— I don’t know Japanese, I’m making this up— if a syllable changes in one word, then “the crickets are singing in chorus in the starlight” becomes “the taxicabs are in gridlock at the intersection.” I gather that Japanese poetry uses these almost-double meanings deliberately. A line of poetry can be translucent, as it were, to another meaning it could have if it were in a different context. The surface significance allows a possible alternate significance to register at the same time.
does anyone know if this is a real thing UKLG is referring to? if so, word for it, examples?
which looks like is just “japanese has a lot of homophones and poets will use them for artistic effect,” more or less the same as they will in english
Yeah a lot of it is that Japanese (a non-tonal language) repeatedly borrowed words from tonal Chinese, stripping them of tone (so that several words once distinct were now identical) and then re-borrowed the same roots centuries later after meaning and pronunciation had drifted, with the result that there are a ton of words that sound the same and punning is a major feature of Japanese-language culture.
It is huge in Japanese poetry (where the regular suffixed conjugation makes end rhyme trivial), the most honored stuff – even stuff you might be familiar and impressed with – translates poorly because you can only translate one meaning at a time, lacking the centuries of cultural context that would make the others even make sense.
Often the Chinese borrowings were primarily in a literary written context and semantic drift between the borrowings, Chinese language sounds, and Japanese sounds had proceeded differently in terms of written characters and sound. Sometimes the borrowings were from dialects that used completely different sounds for the same characters.
Or as contemporaries like My Three Sons (1960-1973) fall out of memory (I remember it from Nick at Nite, which was the retro rerun late nite block from the early days of the normally child-targeted cable TV station Nickelodeon) is it looting their corpses to be the era’s last signifier standing?
From last year when I was doing yard work all year long I have a pretty good sense of local micro-seasons and know the rain stops after May.
So, I’ll want to start tamping down any loose soil on the rammed-earth ramp sloping up to the backyard gate so I can get a few cycles to compress it to water- (and plant-) impermeable hardpack before it dries too much. Most of the pulled weeds and dirt this year I dumped to build a slope down a bit into the shell of Blueberry Hill.
So I want to use that ramp to get down and smash all of Blueberry Hill and refill it with new compost by late April to get wet some and start decay processes, maybe break wood apart in Strawberry Ridge too, also I want the grass to be a bit past medium-length then to trap moisture by the ground so I’ll cut it tight in a week or so and throw that in to get rained on and paste things together.
When it gets dry weeds stop sprouting, last year pulling them was full-time by now and afterwards I used the time to trim all the trees, it’ll still free up some this year I guess I’ll use to get the renovation started.
Actually you know what, I should be proud that my “rich boy uses money he didn’t earn to establish a household” was like an inversion of the “gentleman farmer” thing where you use farmland for a personal residence with money-losing incompetent agricultural hobbyism, in that I got urban residential land and raised its value through my hobbies of manual land improvement and plant cultivation, I just thought of that
From last year when I was doing yard work all year long I have a pretty good sense of local micro-seasons and know the rain stops after May.
So, I’ll want to start tamping down any loose soil on the rammed-earth ramp sloping up to the backyard gate so I can get a few cycles to compress it to water- (and plant-) impermeable hardpack before it dries too much. Most of the pulled weeds and dirt this year I dumped to build a slope down a bit into the shell of Blueberry Hill.
So I want to use that ramp to get down and smash all of Blueberry Hill and refill it with new compost by late April to get wet some and start decay processes, maybe break wood apart in Strawberry Ridge too, also I want the grass to be a bit past medium-length then to trap moisture by the ground so I’ll cut it tight in a week or so and throw that in to get rained on and paste things together.
When it gets dry weeds stop sprouting, last year pulling them was full-time by now and afterwards I used the time to trim all the trees, it’ll still free up some this year I guess I’ll use to get the renovation started.
From my window overlooking the side yard path to an elementary school and park, picking up that the people around here who have kids in their late 30s are the relatively normie arrivistes, the real Kept-Portland-Weird types that have them have them in their grey-haired 40s
nobody is questioning that, Frank. what we want to know is where you got the human skeleton from.
They were found in an abandoned Halloween store, the building was torn down in the 80s.
so is it a fake plastic skeleton or a real natural human skeleton?
It’s a Halloween skeleton!
Don’t believe the Department of Homeland Security when they show up at your door: it’s just a silly skeleton! It’s not actually made of human bones at all!
