Nah, a lot of us around the world just use The Four Ingredients, and prefer bread that is simpler yet tastier. Your numbers might be very regional.

You are a hominid. We are a troupe species. We are susceptible to social manipulation which can overwhelm our reasoning, because we survived based on trust.

Some of us have overstimulated amygdalas because of biology and various kinds of anxiety. This enhances the vulnerability to manipulation by another minority, the sociopaths.

For the species to continue to survive, we must keep the sociopaths from manipulating and the amygdaloids from falling into cults.

If you accept it, this is your mission.

Hm, I guess an encyclopedia article is more relevant than a dictionary definition, so sure. I was using the looser secondary definition… in this case an elision that references a dialect in order to call up regional relevance to the opinion expressed.

I dunno, cf. 1.b definition of idiom in the OED: dialect usage, and 2.a is dialect usage for effect. Maybe the definition is changing with the ages, or your usage is overly strict.

Well we can argue over the niceties of the word idiom, but as it’s referring to the way the word is pronounced in specific regions of North America, it qualifies as meeting one of the definitions of idiom.

Elision refers more to the absence of an understood word, such as saying ‘my bad’.

My bad, elision can also refer to slurring syllables together, so it’s both.

In the English language, specifically North American dialects, this is a form of idiom.

Nah, the commenter calls out Israel in other threads.

I thought it was just a troll account but madlian has posted 200+ comments on a 1 week account and is not agitating or a contrarian, is not even wrong most of the time, just contemptuous and enjoys being an asshole.

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Yes, we call that “structural racism”.

Yep, all of that too: Okotoks and Airdrie are basically suburbs now.

Calgary relatives: “oh I’m just going to zip up to Edmonton for the day” or go for a coffee 40km to the other side of town or just do the daily 130km commute etc.

That’s… a very russian attitude!

Yeah way to advertise that you’re a mouth-breather, right?

Slept in. Talked about layers of post colonial identity over coffee. Worked on our resilience garden. Now working on all the little dishes for a mezze table for and cleaning up the BBQ.

Patriotism sucks and it’s particularly bad right now because it’s nose-holdingly necessary.

Happy not-fukan-amurrican day.

Going to add a few Iranian dishes to the menu in that spirit.

Can confirm, I live out in the countryside with only coax available, and a measly 1Gbit down 150Mbit up and 9 - 11ms ping. No caps.

Wait, that’s awesome and steady and reliable. Expensive sure but with heavy multiperson usage and no noticeable issues, I am wondering WTF you’re on about unless it’s some weird edge case?

Maybe you are referring to predatory business practices like oversubscribed lines? That’s not a technical problem.

Ah, maincoons are very different despite both breeds being big and furry.

Skogkatts are redomesticated after going feral in the woods and are a bit different from most cats in temperament.

The Forest Cats are not usually super cuddly, but like to be nearby. Smart and social with humans. My favourite breed now.

We lucked into ours, she was a rescue kitten from a crackhouse. We needed a hypoallergenic cat and forest cats are, somewhat.

Our Skogkatt ate teen rabbits regularly. She would bring them into the house so we gave her a “murder mat” that was for that purpose (smart cat, didn’t need training and immediately started using it).

She had a hip problem so didn’t bother with birds, and we let her roam the “farm”. The rabbits she mostly ate at home were nearly full grown eastern cottontails.

One day she brought in and ate two smaller 5-week old or so teens, side by side. Always ate everything but the kidneys and maybe a foot or nose. She also ate the giant dock rats that show up sometimes around the chickens.

Scary little ambush predator. Owls are just as impressive.

Barn Owls and lots of other big claw birds around here thrive on the naturalized cottontails. But they are mostly part of the ecology that eats smaller things like voles or snakes.

Not likely enough surface area for cyanoacrylate to do its magic, though one could try to glue the key pieces together and hope it holds long enough for a partial pull. Likely to just glue the broken piece in there by accident.

Hot glue is gooey and will grab the broken part.

Thanks for bringing that up, trying to justify atomic bombs that way is specious reasoning.

During his feature length interview in The Fog of War, MacNamara said explicitly that if they had lost the war, he and his team would have been tried for war crimes. He cries a bit at one point while describing the firebombing of wooden cities, at how it was worse than the atomic bombs they dropped.