@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.

'We did a report on it, but we can't tell you what it says because politicians would use it'. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/spy-agencies-pulled-2020-vote-study-amid-internal-dissent/ar-AA13rX4p?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=93438e93a6314eea88b476eb9dca22c4

And for a woeful P.S. from ESPN: "After starting the season 2-0 in beating the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints on the road, the Bucs had a 98% chance of making the playoffs and a 93% chance of winning the division, according to FPI. After losing to the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs, their Week 5 win over the Atlanta Falcons gave them a 97% chance of making the playoffs and a 94% chance of winning the division. But after losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers and Carolina Panthers on the road, they’re now at a 67% chance of making the playoffs with a 61% chance of winning the division." GO BUCS.

@xenon said in Common Ground: ambiguous A gift to the courts

I realise that the op-ed is satire, but it also belies an inferiority complex that, in my opinion, is unwarranted. The National Post is not a bad paper - it is not a tabloid. It is a small c conservative newspaper that is, for the most part, factually accurate in its reporting. It’s counterpart in the UK would be The Daily Telegraph. On an equal footing with Globe and Mail, The National Post is indisputably a nationally recognised and credible English language news source. Like the Globe and Mail it serves a demographic that is more often than not, university educated with professional credentials and/or in management positions corporately and in public service. One might even say it is popular among the nation’s Anglophone elite.