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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • And uses some of those words for “the” to be different versions of different genders in different cases.

    Der nominative male, der Dativ female.

    But call also be “that” or “which” or “who” depending on context.

    Not to mention declension of adjectives.

    Different declination for all three genders plus plural, plus differences for negation, no article, definite article, indefinite article all in in nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, version

    If Excel spreadsheets for different versions of “the” turn you on, then German is your language.



  • Remember that Onion headline “man would die fighting to defend what he imagines the Constitution to be”?

    Many modern conservatives are like that. They will bleat all day about laws, and yet have never spent 2 minutes even reading a Wikipedia page about them.

    They’ll believe whatever pundits tell them to believe.

    Witch hunt? Unconstitutional? Politically motivated? Kangaroo court?

    Not for one minute will any of those law and order loving, institution-protecting, facts not feelings, crowd consider that Trump is there because of real actual crimes he really did commit.




  • So in the first sequence they demonstrated how powerful the bombs in those hunter droids are… But then later just played around with one in a hospital, potentially risking thousands of lives.

    Even the robot suggested doing it outside.

    I don’t understand why the writers thought setting up the significance of that danger was worthwhile only to wave it away so casually and stupidly.

    Also when you detonate the robot things in order to kill someone - don’t make them have a five minute timer.

    What would be the point of that?