Emotionally it’s completely reasonable, but emotions are often irrational. Of course it’s reasonable to be upset that a man most of us grew up with is gone. However, the alternative is horrible - it would hurt me far more to see him waste away from Lewy Body.
I’m sad he’s no longer here, but I’m glad he isn’t suffering anymore.
Sorry, but you cannot honestly think that most women are into soulslikes when not even most men are into them.
What you just said amounts to ‘nobody likes soulslikes’ which is just fucking insane, soulslikes are obviously popular.
I don’t advise changing the way you write. It’s a skill you need to flex, and unless you’re using em dashes incorrectly then you should be able to find ways of differentiating yourself from AI without fundamentally changing how you communicate.
Idk, just food for thought. Fuck anyone that tries to say I use AI to write — they can eat a bag of dicks.
The family states that the league banned them from the field via a trespass notice and that officers then escorted them away in front of the other children. They say they later received a refund for the 2026 fall soccer league registration.
The same article, but what I’m having trouble finding is whether they had been banned before this game or as a result of this game.
I mean I thought Doom 2016 and Eternal were great, but I can’t disagree with anything else you’ve said.
Bioware hasn’t made a quality product since Mass Effect 1 or Dragon Age: Origins - whichever came last.
Inb4 conservatives suggesting ‘re-education’ camps for children who (for reasons unknown /s) might have problems seeing a live execution.
She’s a plant
Reading comprehension of a dog.
Talking about regulation (and support for common sense gun laws that would also limit cops) ≠ support for all regulation. You and the people who upvoted you need to retake whatever class you learned English through.
CMP can’t do that in states like California or any of the other states with decent gun laws.
Am I just stupid? They reference this study then go into the origins of life on earth and completely ignore mentioning the study again. What the fuck is this article?
Ah, I see it now. What a surprise, absolutely nothing has changed besides what we think will happen when the sun collapses into a white dwarf.
Sensational clickbait trash.
Well, I’m not sure where you’re from - and considering that this is an English idiom then it’s just as likely that other languages are more accurate.
I will admit that the dive into history was fun, I wouldn’t have done it if I wasn’t motivated by that at least. This entire conversation actually elucidated the point I was making quite well, in that human memory is a fickle thing and history can become muddied as a result. History is written by the victor and other phrases come to mind.
I do wish you and your story well, but I would ask that you consider something for me. Etymology and the progression of language may not seem immediately valuable to you or the story you’re writing, but now you have greater insight into the workings of human communication. The layperson didn’t care that the fiddle wasn’t invented, by the time the phrase was coined it perfectly captured the idea behind the rumor that spread during Nero’s time and what was carried through history. If I’m not mistaken he wasn’t even rumored to have been playing any instrument, he was rumored to have been singing.
All the best, I hope you continue writing and reading.
So you’re just wrong, still - being willfully ignorant because you’re a pedant doesn’t change anything.
Imagine being so pompous as to think your interpretation of an old saying is objectively correct. I would tell you to read up on language prescriptivism but you’ve already proven you don’t read. Doesn’t bode well for your story.
The term “fiddling/fiddled” implies there is a fiddle involved. My problem with the statement is that there couldn’t be a fiddle involved.
This just isn’t how language works. You can dispute the idiom all you want, that doesn’t make you right; ‘Nero fiddled while Rome burned’ is a well known saying.
What you’re saying is like trying to say that Julius Caesar wasn’t assassinated because the term wasn’t coined in English until Shakespeare. No one agrees with that, just so we’re clear.
Most people, therefore drivers, are fucking stupid (at least in the U.S.).
Fiddled is a verb. The only person who fixated on it being a noun is you, a point I should have addressed immediately.
I never tried to prove you wrong. I was just correcting WHY we know that. We know he wasn’t fiddling, because the fiddle wasn’t invented yet. If he was playing anything (and he wasn’t) then it would’ve been a lyre or a lute.
Explain how this is a ‘correction’ to this.
Do we know that Nero wasn’t actually playing the fiddle while Rome burned? Yes.
No you absolutely weren’t right, you tried to correct my statement (paraphrasing) of ‘We know Nero wasn’t fiddling’ with ‘Actually we know Nero wasn’t fiddling because fiddles weren’t invented’. You literally proved my statement while trying to say I was wrong.
Not to mention, the link you provided indeed states that evidence points to their existence in 3000 BC - in ancient Mesopotamia. Their earliest known existence. From which spread to Egypt and Greece, specifically Greece in the form of the pandura. The only thing I’m technically wrong about here is assuming ancient Greece isn’t a part of Europe, because the Greeks themselves didn’t identify as European. They actually invented the term.
You need to actually read. I’m not interested in continuing to give you history lessons.
The ballot very clearly says ‘half goes here, half goes there’.
The people I discussed this with stated that we should vote yes (I voted no) because cancer and immunology research has been gutted at the federal level, and at the very least this is something. I also tried to point out that (if my memory serves) a singular university qualifies for the other half, but that didn’t seem to register.
These are all people who are well educated and certainly don’t have issues with literacy. Classic case of bleeding hearts bleeding all over the place.