howrar

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

The first time I voted, I cast it for our green party, not because I wanted them to win, but because I knew they wouldn't win and my vote would have no effect on the outcome. I haven't been paying much attention to politics at that point in time so I didn't have an opinion on who should win. I just wanted to vote to understand how the process works.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It is wrong because the highlighted portion of the excerpt is supposed to directly answer the question. This one doesn't.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or animal manure, or pesticides

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's been two cases of this happening very recently that's been making the rounds on Lemmy. Two dudes on death row, new evidence comes up that puts their guilty judgement into question and their execution proceeds anyway.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

At what point would you consider it to be sufficiently brain so that its activity is brainwave activity?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I'm surprised to hear German has a word for this, considering that stats I've previously seen show Germany as having the highest proportion of male sitting pee-ers.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

We're part of America too!

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Perfectly fine tool, but they should not be used when you're being evaluated on your ability to do arithmetics.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Please tell me you placed this image so that it's the next one up when they swipe.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

If only learning about bugs made them less gross to accidentally squish under your feet.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

So the characters are still words, right?

Most likely yes. All characters in Chinese are defined jointly by the way it's written, the pronunciation, and meaning. You can't invent new characters like you would a new English word and have something that can be read out loud because there's no system for deriving pronunciation from the written character itself.

I say most likely because there are still some characters that are phonetic in that their meaning is just the sound, but these don't cover the whole spectrum of possible sounds in the language as far as I know. They also wouldn't look as nice in tattoo form since they all use the same radical.

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