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Criticizing a single element of your country's educational system wasn't an attempt to insult you at all, subtle or otherwise.

Eebster the Great wrote:↶
heuristically_alone wrote:He based it on the most common ten hundred words, twerked slightly to make it work.

I think you mean "twerked."

Yes.

In most configurations, they don't balance, but obviously they do in one, because the thing observably works, and Zamfir and I both explained why that equilibrium is stable (at least, why it's stable in the directions and axes we discussed, he one more than me).

Water sticks to most surfaces, and you can't say the ball's mass is negligible because its weight is precisely the thing balancing out the upward force of the water.

Also, there's not a single force through the center of the ball, which is why the ball is spinning so fast.

Water in the upper right quadrant isn't being deflected in either direction on average... What do you mean by this? Water in the upper right quadrant is going up and right on average, meaning that it should apply a force toward the lower left quadrant. If you say that the vertical component of this...

Water in the upper right quadrant isn't being deflected in either direction on average, so is mostly irrelevant. Water in the upper left is going to the left so it pushes the ball right. That balances out the push to the left from the water stream itself. The upward force is mostly applied by the wa...

This ground has been covered, again and again and again, in this and other threads Treatid has started over the years.

any system that separates Eurasia but not the Americas is just being obtuse for obtuseness' sake. That's pretty insulting and doesn't make sense, either. How does that not make sense? The Americas are at least as separate as Eurasia, and clearly moreso geographically. It seems like nothing more tha...

...sure, but I wasn't talking about your speech

Mega85 wrote:The words "soar" and "saw" sound very different in my speech.

Sure, but I wasn't talking about your speech.

It still results in lots of homophones that aren't homophonous in American English, like "soar"/"saw".

Monika wrote:In German it's for a variety of terms mostly for people
Zwilling twin
Drilling triplet

I assume that continues counting up for higher-order multiple births?

↶ What the fuck does any of that have to do with the number of marriages in NY outside of NYC, though? If you were paying attention when I first posted you would know. I know what you thought it was related to, but as I said at the time, I was talking about underage marriages. You quoted my comment...

What the fuck does any of that have to do with the number of marriages in NY outside of NYC, though?

morriswalters wrote:
gmalivuk wrote:We're talking about underage marriages here.
You're talking, I'm offering data specific to the point.

But you're not.

The point had to do with underage marriage, and you responded with an irrelevant statistic about all marriages.

↶ Edit: And those four weren't out of thousands, they were out of however many happened in 2011 alone, in New York State outside of New York City. According to the vital statistics record in 2011, 60,114 licenses were issued outside New York City. I couldn't find the breakdown by age for 2011 but d...

↶ Do you want to claim that a 16yo girl can't have a consensual relationship with a 19yo boy? No, and in many places (including NJ) that wouldn't be statutory rape, either. And out of the thousands of cases in the article, only four were singled out for extreme age differences. Therefore those must...

The fact that it's discouraged by the mainstream doesn't contradict the fact that, among other things, the legal loopholes allow parents to marry off their children to their rapists. That's not a loophole. Adults can marry their rapists, too, if they want. Yes, if they want . Being forced by your p...

The fact that it's discouraged by the mainstream doesn't contradict the fact that, among other things, the legal loopholes allow parents to marry off their children to their rapists.

I don't care whether you suppose it or know it for a fact, it's still not a relevant response to, "Most of the defenses of child marriage use religious reasons."

Rejecting complete cultural relativism doesn't mean adopting any one particular universal morality. Would you share with me how that might work in practice? If I reject the teachings of Catholicism, that doesn't mean I've decided to be Buddhist. And it's not a stretch to suppose most or all marriag...

speising wrote:My issue was that you seemed to imply that most of those marriages are with old men

Yeah, but as I clarified I never implied any such thing.

Gmal, you could end this stupid argument right now by just admitting you made a mistake with your blanket statement, and remember to never say never and always avoid always. I may have overstated the first part of my statement (about statutory rape), because NJ has a close-in-age exemption where it...

Are you reading that correctly?

I'm not claiming most child marriages are between 13-year-olds and 30-year-olds, I'm just commenting on the ones that are.

Anyone having sex with one of those 13-15-year-olds before they were married was committing statutory rape if nothing else. And it's not a stretch to suppose most or all marriages between a 13-year-old and someone two or three times her age is at least somewhat coercive. That's a supposition by you...

Take your pick. "Universal" means it applies universally, not that it's accepted universally. Well that's convenient. Thus spoke the Church and the traders as they plundered the New World. Poor misguided savages. Rejecting complete cultural relativism doesn't mean adopting any one particu...

"Umwelt" changed based on where and how you viewed it, and also apparently when. I think it's quite appropriate that it's now invisible.

Please show me a universal moral framework? Take your pick. "Universal" means it applies universally, not that it's accepted universally. And yes, the rape marriages are the worst case scenarios. Using the word rape confuses the argument, however true it might be of some cases. But the tr...

As an ESL teacher, I frequently have to explain to Latin Americans that for the majority of English speakers all over the world, "America" refers to the United States. It's not unreasonable to complain about that fact, but it's nevertheless a fact they need to be aware of if they want to a...

As far as I can tell, that's never how it has been used, either.

Quizatzhaderac wrote:It makes sense in (only) an archaic sense. Using "America" to mean the all of North an d South America a and the Caribbean one can reasonably say "These united stated of America" versus "the other united states of America"

Except, that's not actually ever how it's used.

I've decided I'm going to fix the original post when it's done incorrectly, and then change it so it looks like I made it in the first place.

If you want the recognition or whatever it is that motivates people to rush to making the first post about a comic, then post correctly.

Title text : Luckily for my interpretation, no precincts were won by the Green Party.

The original OP, who didn't follow the rules and thus shall not receive recognition for making this post, wrote:I would say that Team Instinct still has not taken any Pokemon Go gyms.

(You know that the "et" in "et cetera" already means "and", right? Seems weird to see "and etc.")

I'd argue it takes 8-12 years following the close of a decade before everyone has settled on that decade's identity, and that this comic is a bit premature. Aughts and teens are awkward terms (compared to 70s, 80s, 90s), but I posit we're not yet far enough out of the aughts for the nostalgia to ha...

2000-2010 = "the twenty-hundreds" Is this format used for numbers divisible by one thousand though? All you need to make this work is simple analogy: 1899 = "eighteen ninety-nine" 1900 = "nineteen hundred" 1901 = "nineteen oh-one" Therefore: 1999 = "nine...

greenlimejuice wrote:I used this website and it showed my location in red (second place for worst light pollution)
http://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html

North Korea is so fucking creepy on light level maps.

Did people actually say "the ${decade}s" during that decade? (I was too young during the 90s to remember :oops: ) I thought people only referred to previous decades as such. Yes, they do start to refer to it during that decade, but it usually increases a lot more afterwards. (Though inter...

DanAxtell wrote:My guess is that there really are no glacial erratics south of the equator

New Zealand would disagree (and is in addition a place where the comic's English conversation might happen).

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