ThermonuclearEgg

Nonsense, he's clearly p-adic

It would be hilarious if he actually quotes that line sometime, but I don't think he knows it

Incidentally, House Republicans (and even Senators by Dem standards) have one of those right now...

Romanization of long vowels in Japanese is quite frustrating

"First in a long line of 1,487 more products to come!"

which is often shortened to ossan

TIL.

Interesting that there's a similar concept in Finnish and other languages.

Sports headlines are way better if you don’t know sports exists

It was a typo. He meant to say it was all according to kagaku :P

Nevertheless, their point about not translating is still often correct.

For instance, IIRC you can call middle aged adult men “uncle” even if they aren’t actually your uncle. I believe Chinese does this too.

Texas does not actually have a clause to secede, and the Supreme Court settled the case in Texas v. White (1869) that Texas, or other states, do not have the right to secede (and that furthermore, despite the withdrawals of their Congress members, the states never seceded in the first place).

The actual clause that Texas has in its annexation resolution is this clause granting Texas the ability to create up to four more states out of its land:

Third. New States, of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the federal constitution.

This is a mainly historical movement called Texas divisionism and there aren't any serious advocates of splitting Texas into any other states today as far as I know.