Yeah, I heard a Michele Young interview on NPR just yesterday or the day before on the same topic.

@Axtremus meh….

@Mik said in Toyota switches back to conventional keys: You underpriced it. https://www.carsforsale.com/1976-volkswagen-beetle-for-sale-C1065745 Mine's a little more "lived in". [image: 1666966943523-363ca18b-7503-4b06-ab6b-7edf44a2dfb8-image.png]

@Horace said in My Russian friend....: That might be triggering for some. Based on some of his reported conversations with HR over the years, he's cleaned it up a lot. People who are easily upset are best avoiding him. He manages to outrage conservatives and liberals alike.

@89th We lived just south of there (Moscow, Idaho) then - it would have been big news, but I don’t remember it! https://spokanehistorical.org/items/show/700

@George-K said in Youse, yinz, y’all: Another side note. I recall listening to a lecture about a related topic, and how English used to have "formal" and "informal" uses of the second person. So, "you" was considered the formal usage of the word. "Your Majesty, it is such a pleasure to meet you." However, "thee" was considered the informal. "Bob, I will always consider thee my friend." In Richard III, one of the characters (I forget which) is berating Richard for his betrayal of her family, and she goes on a rant. At the beginning, she addresses the nobleman by calling him "you." By the end of the rant, she's using "thee." This, supposedly, was Shakespeare's way of showing how Richard has lost standing with her. This is also why the Amish and their ilk use "thee" instead of "you." It's less formal. Or at least it used to be. I'm sure @Aqua-Letifer will have something to add. We used to have an accusative case, too. I miss accusative case.

Also, it's interesting to see the percentage of Latino even out after the 90s. I feel like in the MLB there recently has been a surge in Latino talent. Either way, good for them, those Latin American countries have some incredible passion for the game, often contrasted with the bare bones facilities and equipment to use. Many have found a great way to improve their life (and for their families) by working hard at baseball.

I think even 150 years ago, there was "early voting" in the US. For example, if the election was on November 1st, with the slow pace of news transfer, etc., people's last interaction with a candidate may have been from September. People are voting based on that particular point in time. Probably evens out. People vote for Candidate A a month early. In the next month, sometimes Candidate A looks much better, sometimes much worse. People who voted for him wish they hadn't. People who didn't vote for him wish they had.

I think that the mistake people make is that when they hear "zero emissions", they are drawing the bubble around the car when it is driving. At that point, I think it is close to zero emissions. But of course, any manufacturing process has emissions going along with hit. For sure.

Cool pics!

"Japanese men’s contributions to domestic tasks remain very low and the gender imbalance in domestic labour is still notable. The persistence of unequal gender roles at home in the face of expanding economic opportunities for women has made balancing work and family life very difficult for married women – lessening the appeal of marriage." This is very true (even in other North Asia countries like Korea). There is the (true?) stereotype of the Japanese salary man going to work, going out with his colleagues or customers after work to drink, coming home drunk, falling into bed, sleeping, getting up the next morning and going to work, and repeating..............

BLM. Black Legroom Matters.

Yeah, but they dress classier...

@George-K said in Experts: If you take population growth into consideration, the number of doctorates in 2020 is still three times what it was in 1958. I agree that a lot of current PhD's areas of studies are kind of goofy, but I also think that one reason the number has gone up is that there are a lot more foreign graduate students now studying at US universities as compare to (for example) 1958.

Looks like one of those scientific displays you see in old laboratories. LOL

The document lists “misinformation” as a potential election crime, describing it as “false or misleading information spread mistakenly or unintentionally.” Well, then, every politician is a suspect.