crosswind

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[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

Same thing with 'Keev' suddenly becoming the only acceptable pronunciation of Kiev/Kyiv. The 'authentic' way to pronounce it uses vowel sounds that are close to Polish and are very difficult for most English speakers to get right. The distinction between the Ukrainian and Russian pronunciations was artificially reconstructed within the bounds of English speakers' familiarity as "keev" vs "key-ev" in a way mostly unrecognizable to the actual speakers. But now there was an easy indicator of whether someone was sufficiently loyal and willing to snap to the good righteous Ukrainian way, or if they were an agent of Putin who said it the Russian way.

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

I was looking at this more, and if you're going to order through customs, you should do it soon. If you order now it can still get through before the de minimis exemption ends on the 29th. After that it might be more difficult/expensive.

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

That got me too, right when I was going to order. They just updated with their reopening plans, though.

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

In the ‘Big Apple’, the biggest risk isn’t apples

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

I agree with not shying away from responsibility. There's no contradiction for us in that case. Either leftists were strong enough to swing the election, or we should have been. For the ghouls, there's no contradiction either. Either the leftists were irrelevant in the election, or they should have been. It's the people who support the democrats while claiming to be against genocide who have to be skilled at switching realities to argue with whatever they think the leftist in front of them is saying.

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

When that poll came out, it was posted here to show that supporting genocide cost Harris the election, and a lib came in to debunk it with your argument about swing states (from what I remember, the swing state numbers change things somewhat, but not as strongly as they were claiming).

We're really going to keep having this same argument, over and over, from both directions, and libs will freely switch to whatever side makes the leftists wrong.

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

You can just say vomiting. Why did he need to make an announcement that he had the hiccups?

I will not be attending the Liberal Party meeting because of vomiting. Also, I have the hiccups. Also, I tried to rub my eye, but I poked it really hard. Also, I sneezed and a big booger was on my upper lip and by the time I noticed it had dried and when I pulled it off it hurt. Thank you. I'm Jair Bolsonaro

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

Like the drug dealer?

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

A lot of what you wrote sounded very familiar, and I was trying to put together some advice that I would want to give to myself when I was starting with my current therapist, but as I kept reading it sounds like you've picked up the changes in perspective and understanding I was going to recommend. So I don't have anything directly helpful to add, but it sounds like the work you're doing is getting somewhere. I've felt similarly frustrated to what you described, but looking back I'm happy with the progress I've made. That's just what it feels like a lot of the time, that is what it takes.

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