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Mayonnaise included
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Dry-fried duck, I think.
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Mayonnaise included
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Dry-fried duck, I think.
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Why are the two major American parties called what they are?
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And sometimes is even contradictory. The Danish Left party is right-wing (agrarian conservative), the French Radicals are centrists. These names have historic causes, but it's still confusing.
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First typewriter!
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I never saw that. Generally, à, è and é are directly present on the keyboard, not the accents as dead keys. ^ and ¨ are dead keys, though.
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The @ symbol is missing from French keyboards too, just like fractions. We need space for our accents!
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Congratulations on this purchase—and on your ability to replace that spring! For a first repair, it's commendable!
If you want to publish typewritten texts, even if just for.showcasing the font, you can use the [email protected] community.
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Advance, flank, and collectivize
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I think here “conservative” is not used in the “traditionalist” sense, but in the “cautious” one. Willich was against the gradual approach of Marx, and was for more revolutionary acts here and now.
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Because you never typed in Volapük 😅
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Only The Lonely
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“We know”
“The odor is awful”
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Little treat
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This photo wasn't even taken with that woman's consent and nobody here gives a shit
They didn't even thought about that, as they don't see her as a person, but as a thing. We don't ask consent to things.
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Desires
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Why change it if it's not good nor bad to change it?
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Women are things, so fun, hahaha
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No the grammar will be easily understood to anyone having a language with an accusative morphosyntactic alignment, that is, by far the most widespread one. The phonetic inventory is quite limited, so perfectly learnable for every culture. For the vocabulary I agree, but it's linked to the most spoken languages of the world, so, not that bad.
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My human existence is not threatened now. I'm middle class in a western country. I have no egoist reasons to fight the system.
Now I'm socialist. I believe we should fight for the well being of the workers of the world. For the poor, the oppressed. But because it's good, because it's the right thing to do. That makes me an idealist socialist, and I feel no shame about that.
And you know what? Most materialist socialist have no egoist reasons to fight themselves. Marx himself could have lived a very comfortable life as a bourgeois intellectual. He didn't because, unknowingly, he was in fact idealist. Actual materialism is by essence right-wing.
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If you're Polish
There are 28 phonemes in Esperanto. 44 in English. 51 in Polish (probably less, in fact, I don't speak Polish maybe someone who does could correct me?).
Haven't seen any vocabulary from Mandarin in Esperanto.
All ≠ most.
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You can all repeat that we don't need a moral foundation because people act in their material interest, if you don't answer to my arguments it's worthless.
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Indo-European. That is, 3.4 billion native speakers. And only for the vocabulary and writing system: the grammar is pretty universal.
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Esperanto's not perfect, for sure. The existence of /x/ is indeed one of its flaws, but it almost disappeared in modern Esperanto because of that.
For the rest, a language do need some diversity in its phonology or the words would have to be very long and least recognizable. It won't be a problem if you mispronounce most phonemes a little, as there's no correct accent; if you pronounce ankaŭ [ankau] instead of [ankau̯] nobody will care… Again it's not perfect, but perfection doesn't exist and Esperanto works.
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we can just get most people to help with the project of maintaining human society
But why would we try to maintain human society if it's not inherently good?
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Punjabi speakers will find Esperanto easier than any natural language. It will be harder for them than for, say, a French speaker, but in the absolute it will be easy for both.
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Openai is really non profit after all
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That's why you can click on “Hide infrastructure”, it then shows only $135B in revenue (for $1.2T spent).