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We have a similar problem in Bloomington, IN.
We have a good social net here for homeless who appear here. The problem with that, is that anything you do to assist with homeless attracts more. And I mean a lot more.
As city government, what can you do? We have shelters, we have food banks, we have free delivered food; really there's lots of resources. And our numbers have doubled in the last 2 years. Any money left available is eagerly gobbled up by people coming from out of city/state to here. Add this to greyhound therapy, from other cities, and this is a problem.
What needs to be done is a war on poverty and homelessness, and it needs to be applied across the whole country. That will stem the flood of moving homeless to better areas, and we can start really fighting it.
EDIT(11:53 -500): "war on poverty and homelessness" was a bad phrase, and is derailing by attacking that phrase. Call it "ending homelessness", "fixing homelessness", or something.
EDIT(2:30 -500): /u/NoMoreNicksLeft has an intriguing solution revolving around stopping the game theory attributes of cities helping the homeless. Read about it here. It's a rough draft, but contains essential pieces to start solving the problems locally!
He was zero black. As a Hebrew/Israeli/Jew, he was Hebrew/Israeli/Jew.
EDIT: For clarity and mostly because people are nit-picking the semantics of things.
EDIT 2: I did not mistype. Semantic is a real word too and the one I used on purpose because people were arguing about my choice of words. That is literally the definition of semantics.
Up your diction, foo.
According to dictionaries now, the primary definition is
>the underdeveloped nations of the world, especially those with widespread poverty
with
>the group of developing nations, especially of Asia and Africa, that do not align themselves with the policies of either the U.S. or the former Soviet Union
being the second definition. Wikipedia says the same thing on the very page you linked. The above use is completely legitimate, though the ambiguity means you should probably use another term to describe poor underdeveloped nations.
I wouldn't rub a lemon in my eye either that doesn't make it unsanitary. Just because something is an irritant doesn't mean it's not sanitary. Acidity doesn't mean unsanitary.
The dictionary definition of unsanitary is unclean, unhealthful or with a tendency to harbour or spread disease. This is simply not the case of vaginal discharge which is completely healthy and does not harbour disease.
I really don't understand the point of this silly semantics argument. The common definition of racism is either poor treatment/violence of a person because of their race or the belief that a race is better than another.
Yet some want to use institutional racism to define all racism. Obviously institutional racism is far more powerful and destructive as than non-institutional racism but I fail to see how this justifies changing the definitions.
I mean most black people that I know view racism as the common definition rather than it requiring power and influence. I was always told by my parents (who are black) not to be racist, they never said bigoted. I really don't get the reason for changing the definition other than to make it hard to call a minority racist. Just because Ta Nehisis Coates and a couple other people in academia says it doesn't make it a good idea.
By this definition a native American could deny service to a black person and call him an ape and not be racist because natives have no power in America.
Edit- It would seem like Coates didn't make that argument as OP pointed out, my bad
noun
1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
2. (sometimes initial capital letter) the philosophy, principles, or methods of fascism.
3. (initial capital letter) a political movement that employs the principles and methods of fascism, especially the one established by Mussolini in Italy 1922–43.
I could be wrong, but I believe that piqued should have been used here instead of peaked. For future reference of course.
That being said, very interesting read. I'm surprised he had to actually sue the PGA in order for them to let him use a cart. Seems like a dick move on the PGA's part.
It wasn't necessarily sexual; "puss" just meant 'face', like sometimes you hear "sourpuss".
> puss^2 : noun, Slang.
> 1. face: "She smacked him in the puss."
> 2. mouth: "Shut your puss before I shut it for you."
> Origin: 1880-85; from Irish pus lip, mouth
It doesn't belong to the time. We're supposedly in 200 years after the world was obliterated, but all the music belongs to some 120 years even before that. That's pretty much textbook anachronism right there.
Edit: Of course, that goes for the entire game series, being a 1990s+ take on a 1950s post-nuclear war fantasy, played out in a future we know perfectly well would never come to pass -- but even then, no one in the 1950s would imagine people still listening to the same music in 2077. The music isn't there to add verisimilitude to the world as a 1950s fantasy, it's there to give it some 1950s colour.
While certainly a handful of profanity has remained tried and true, consider what slang and swearing sounded like in 1956. Hell, consider what slang and swearing sounded like in 1989 -- we've experienced that history so it doesn't sound so foreign to us, but imagine how we're going to feel about the slang our grandkids use. (Also, drek is a word.) I mean, that whizzer frood is on fleek, home skillet.
The real answer, obviously, is twofold: avoiding censorship in the 80s/90s, and creating a "punk" future that was partly incomprehensible to a modern reader (tvtropes warning).
It actually is. The most common definition of 'Digital' does apply in this case:
displaying a readout in numerical digits rather than by a pointer or hands on a dial
Old school flip clocks like this one used to be called digital clocks, despite being entirely mechanical.
They aren't electronic, but the displays in both cases are digital according to the pre-computer-revolution definition of the word.
>Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook on Wednesday morning sounded an almost desperate tone in a fundraising email, saying Mrs. Clinton needs more money or she risks falling even further behind against Mr. Trump.
>“I can’t say this enough times: These polls don’t predict the future. We can change them by making sure voters know about Hillary’s vision for our country. But we need to get started RIGHT NOW,” he said before asking supporters to donate to the campaign.
Actually, head to head polls this late in the primary season have been shown to be REALLY predictive, Robby.
Mook: Definition
I like to say French Fries.
I saw somewhere (Forgot where) that French in French fries could have come from:
"French" (often lowercase) to cut (snap beans) into slivers or thin strips before cooking.
>information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
Propaganda doesn't have to come from the government. Propaganda doesn't even need to be political at all. Every single commercial you see on TV is propaganda. If it's promoting a particular viewpoint, it's propaganda.
Chthonian is a term that existed before Lovecraft was born, referring to earth and underworld-aligned deities and spirits. In all likelihood, the term probably influenced him instead of the reverse. More you know!
7. to disable; impair; weaken Your post reads like someone just looking for something to be offended about. You might want to work on that choosing your battles thing.
> "It really bothers me when people confuse nerd with geek.
As well it should since the <em>original</em> definition of a geek is a man at the circus who bites the heads of live chickens.
OP is saying something that isn't completely true. While the primary definition of jealousy is as he says, the dictionary will also state that "jealousy" is a synonym of "envy".
The tabla to be precise, but yes. But let's not get too amazed. This little girl has obviously been forced into becoming a performer at the age she should be in school. And, I would bet that the money she gets is not even going to her but that guy playing the tabla.
>noun 1. a loan translation, especially one resulting from bilingual interference in which the internal structure of a borrowed word or phrase is maintained but its morphemes are replaced by those of the native language, as German halbinsel for peninsula.
> Praxology is a tool not an ideology.
It presupposes, without any evidence, a given view of all sorts of things. Like, for example, human free will, the natural of rational thought, the nature of intention, and the definition of humanity insofar as it relates to action. Then it uses these beliefs to found a theory of economics that gives prescriptions for behavior. That is almost the exact definition of ideology:
>the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group. *
>2. suggestive of the ancient Spartans; sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere.
Here's a tip from an older guy: don't be a pedantic little shit, especially when you're not familiar with basic idioms.
Paraphernalia is just a general term, not necessarily tied to religion. Actually, I think I see "drug paraphernalia" more than "religious paraphernalia"...
In a high school environment it absolutely would be considered bullying. Do you honestly think that physical violence is the only kind of bullying? Because I think most would disagree. Psychological abuse is a thing, after all.
>Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power, which distinguishes bullying from conflict.
>a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
[](/fluttershh) "Caroling." [](/sp)
[](/raritywut) Right, that. What was I doing, then? [](/sp)
[](/flutterfear-r) Having too much cider. [](/sp)
[](/fabulous) ... [](/sp)
[](/wahaha) Let's do both! [](/whattheflut-in-r)
You probably should have linked a source. Such definitions, while not the most common, are still used. Granted, I could not find your exact definition, but I could find similar definitions.
Of course, if people disagree with you, it would be more useful for them to explain why, rather than just downvote you. Discussion is more conducive to learning than burying opinions you don't like/agree with.
What the fuck is happening to this country? Is everyone a special snowflake now?
'The Great Unwashed' just means the general public. Are we getting offended by nearly two hundred year old phrases now?
According to dictionary: a person who regularly enters competitions in newspapers, magazines, etc, esp competitions offering consumer goods as prizes + anime
It can be used in this context [link] "a prescribed or necessary course of action." Although I'd never use it like that. I'd only really ever use it as in snooker cue or cue actor to come on stage.
>the person is also in a state of mind that mutilating their genitals makes good sense.
No, the person is suffering from a condition where the gender of the Brain does not match the gender of the Body... this is not a state of mind, this is a physical mismatch.
The only viable treatment is GRS... in all it's various forms and degrees.
>And trans people aren't hated and vilified
You just posted something that matched the fucking definition of Vilify to a fucking "T"... well done, you just vilified Trans people.
I saw this in /r/bestofoutrageculture earlier but I missed this gem...
>More people will sign out into their VR worlds (imagine World of warcraft on steroids combined with porn) and we will have accelerated population attrition and huge swathes of new MGTOWs.
Oh yeah, virtual reality porn is the ONLY thing stopping "swathes" of men from forsaking women entirely in favor of being bitter, misogynistic, socially inept winners like these guys. It'll be like World of Warcraft but porn!
Apathy is the fault of the person feeling it.
EDIT: Okay, I obviously didn't explain what I was trying to say. The argument was that the system is designed to create voter apathy. I do not believe that it is rigged, just that the people who bring about change are those who are informed and willing to actually work within the system. Those that are not willing to inform themselves of the system, are by definition, apathetic.
There is already a word:
- verb (used with object) Often Vulgar. to sodomize.
- Slang. damn: Bugger the cost—I want the best.
- Chiefly British Slang. to trick, deceive, or take advantage of.
1300-50; Middle English bougre < Anglo-French bugre < Medieval Latin Bulgarus heretic, literally, Bulgarian, by association of the Balkans with heretical sects such as the Bogomils and their alleged deviant sexual practices
You simply have to be being obtuse on purpose for the sake of fighting about this, otherwise you'd realize the use of "you" in this case is not the accusatory form targeted at you personally.
[link] (its definition number 2, just in case this is too hard)
Reprehensible ideas are best addressed when they're allowed to fail under the scrutiny of reasonable people, and exposing hypocrisy is one of the tools to lead to such a pass.
Why is it that both dictionary.com and wordnetweb.princeton.edu say it's a fungus? Wikipedia disagrees however. Not sure what to believe.
I wasn't using the legal meaning of the word there, no.
I called it a slanderous lie. [link]
Because it fits the definition above, he did not state any individuals.
Just because a TOS allows them to act as censors doesn't mean it's magically not censorship.
an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
3-5 are historical / obscure definitions
as a verb (used with object)
to examine and act upon as a censor.
to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor.
According to this one, an opinion is
> a personal view, attitude, or appraisal.
According to this photo link [Imgur Mirror], it is of my opinion that using something so recently tragic in the news is rather tasteless. Yes, it's a gorilla, but it still died. No, it's not as tragic as a human being shot, but it still died. Tragedy + Time = Comedy, and Time is still functionally 0, since it's literally still controversial in the news.
Obviously, I'm quite alone in my analysis, but I think I suitably backed up mine with pseudo-scans.
a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus
Phallus -
(Anatomy) the penis, the clitoris, or the sexually undifferentiated embryonic organ out of which either of these develops.
I mention this because even my own mother (whose demographic is unfortunately the same as TERFs but she has not been so overt in her beliefs) has asked me no less than 4 times so far in one year, what my plans are for my penis.
The next answer may be more crude than she expects.
Well, floccinaucinihilipilification actually is a word. The definition has almost a self-deprecating feeling to it when using it as a name for your blog.
Dictionary.com lists octopi and octopuses as valid plurals, but not octopodes. Hmm.
Webster's agrees.
Oxford only lists octopuses, and includes this usage note:
>The standard plural in English of octopus is octopuses. However, the word octopus comes from Greek, and the Greek plural form octopodes is still occasionally used. The plural form octopi is mistakenly formed according to rules for Latin plurals, and is therefore incorrect.
Well, here's my conspiracy theory, further cemented by reading this thread: there are government (or other) forces at work that want to twist the public understanding of the word 'conspiracy' to somehow mean untrue or ridiculous.
Heads up everyone, the word conspiracy means a group of people plotting together behind closed doors. Here is a god damn dictionary definition if you don't believe me.
I see way too many people say something like "My conspiracy theory is this" and someone go "nono that's not a conspiracy, that's true." THAT MEANS IT IS NO LONGER A CONSPIRACY THEORY, IT IS NOW SIMPLY A (known) CONSPIRACY.
Its usually a noun in fact its kinda strange to hear it any other way. But I have seen, mostly in video games, people say "I suicided to save time." Usually the verb is something like "commit" or in the case of the title "leading".
> But the conservative ideology is that the government should be small, and individual rights should be uninfringed
So they say, yet in practice whenever there has been a big debate about important individual rights, it has been the conservatives on the opposing side. Apart from gun ownership rights I cannot think of a single case where conservatives and conservative parties were the ones arguing to allow something rather than ban it.
If conservative ideology is about small government, why do they keep trying to make (or keep) the government so huge? The answer is found in the dictionary definition of conservative: "disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change."
The flawed premise conservatives base their estimate of their own ideology on is that the way things are now, or the way they were in the "good ol days" is the natural order of the universe, and thus any change or deviation from that (such as allowing gay marriage, legalizing cannabis, women in the military etc...) is an added burden or a forced change which must be indicative of big government, failing to realise that a lot of things are the way they are today because of a long history of laws, censorship and violent enforcement, and thus most modern social changes have been and continue to be steps toward "smaller government" and more individual rights, backed by liberals.
> vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear.
Well that's just ONE definition.
There are others. For example:
"The sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium."
The key points here are sensation produced and organs of hearing
If a tree fall in a forest with no one around, there is no "sensation produced," as there are no "organs of hearing" around to enable the sensation to be produced.
Your sarcasm doesn't help make a case for your side, it only shows that when someone points something out about your country, instead of debating, you attack the other person's opinion while at the same time playing the victim card saying that the others always hate on Poland.
Uh oh, he used a word... RETARDS.. He used it in context, without implying mental or physical disability,
Its a reflection of the times and this idiotic "PC" culture where we can play a game predicated upon preying on the lowlife masses to take everything of value from them, listen to them use vulgarity in half of their dialogue in game, and blatantly MURDER PEOPLE IN COLD BLOOD, SET THEM ON FIRE, OR HANG DEAD BODIES BY THEIR ANKLES FROM THE SCAFFOLDING and then all of a sudden become so amazingly offended by the word RETARDS that someone gets forcibly silenced and likely reprimanded by their employer.
Citation 4(b)
4. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.
a. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person who is cognitively impaired. b. a person who is stupid, obtuse, or ineffective in some way
In the context that the word RETARDS was used /u/dijit got this one right. It wasnt offensive, it wasnt casting a bad light on anyone with any real mental or physical disability, it was someone using a word correctly.
IT WAS SOMEONE USING A WORD CORRECTLY.
As in 'Massive, if you think silencing one of your staff for being candid and responsive to the community, you're all a bunch of RETARDS.'
See what I did there?
Its a fucking word. Get over yourselves. Stop being a bunch of overly offended PC pussies and play the fucking game.
To paraphrase Paul Rhodes: "Massive, MASSIVE! I need you to take a deep breath and find your balls, and when you find them LET DIJIT DO THE FUCKING JOB THAT HAMMISH CANT."
fuck.
/endrant
> Whore
>noun
>1. a woman who engages in promiscuous sexual intercourse, usually for money; prostitute; harlot; strumpet. >[link]
She is quite literally the dictionary definition of a whore.
I'm seriously questioning whether you understand what a joke is or not. I'm not saying the tweet was funny but it was clearly a joke. There is no doubt about it.
"Spring break is ending" => "Delete your account"
Let me break it down for you: Wolfbad really enjoys spring break, so when OSU tweeted that it was ending, he said "Delete your account" because he didn't want OSU telling him that his spring break was ending.
I linked some of those words in case you didn't know what those mean either.
I can agree with you that the tweet was kind of weak but it was an attempt at comedy.
Dictatorship doesn't necessarily mean violence though, right?
edit: Why am I being downvoted? I know that dictators are almost always violent, but being violent is not one of the contingencies of a dictatorship.
While it is a very racist statement, it's worth noting that cotton-picking is being used as a saying, similar to "god damn". So he's not saying they applied for a job to pick cotton, but rather they applied for the damn job, so they were hired.
you're overthinking this. it's a pretty standard phrase.
> treatment > > management in the application of medicines
if your vitamins were prescribed by a doctor and aimed at avoiding a specific disease rather than just boosting your overall wellness, they'd probably also be considered a treatment.
You're aware of what the word "Donation" stands for, aren't you? Here, just in case you're as mentally retarded as your comment shows:
1. an act or instance of presenting something as a gift, grant, or contribution.
2. a gift, as to a fund; contribution.
Reck seems to have fallen out of favor, but is a word. [link]
>verb (used without object) 1. to have care, concern, or regard (often followed by of, with, or a clause). 2. to take heed. 3. Archaic. to be of concern or importance; matter: It recks not.
^(Ah, yes, they are very similar words (and in point of fact have identical roots, which raises interesting questions about things like the perception of the economic value of women in archaic times, but that is perhaps a discussion better saved for another day)^), ^(however the verb "husbanding" can be used to mean "the act of a man marrying someone." Further reading can be found at [link].)
> hyperbolic false sympathy
Fuck you. Seriously, fuck you, just because you can't conceive of having empathy for your fellow man, doesn't mean that everyone else is psychologically abnormal too.
> Why is it impossible to discuss the merits of reducing dependence on welfare?
We're not discussing that. Taking away someone's welfare doesn't magically reduce their dependence on it. The clue's in the word - "dependence" - as in
> the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, support, or the like
Needing, not preferring or liking. You reduce someone's dependence on something by giving them something else that reduces it or takes it away, not by removing it from them. Then they're still dependent on it, but they don't have it any more - so their life is worse.
And that is why people go "Grr, evil Tories" - because evil is acting in your own interest*, even though you know it is harmful to someone else.
* (by giving money to the top 17% of income earners because it will influence their vote, and probably end up in the financial sector that donate so heavily to your party, in the form of savings)
noun
1. a female servant.
2. a girl or young unmarried woman.
3. Archaic. a virgin.
She fits 2 of the descriptions, unless there was an unmentioned suitor.
Hire her anyway. Considering her CPU status, she would likely not need financial compensation (likely only pudding compensation), and you get Neptune in a maid outfit. Really, the only downside is keeping pudding supplied, which is likely worth the cost.
Actually, it was historically pronounced with a /t/ (hence the t in the spelling). The /t/ was lost in the 1600's, but has begun to be reintroduced in recent times.
Source:
I would like to coin the term fuzzword. It's like a buzzword (a technical term unique to a field used to describe concepts to laypersons) but designed to obfuscate a lack of rigor.
"Means of production" appears to be a fuzzword.
That's the one thing pedants (someone who is pedantic) doesn't get; words & languages evolve. What something meant one day might mean something completely different another day. That is the case with words like "third world country". Before, it meant your alignment during WW. Now, it means this: "the underdeveloped nations of the world, especially those with widespread poverty." Source.
Incidentally, you actually have that exactly backwards. "Cancelled" with two Ls is the British spelling, while "Canceled" with one L is the American spelling.
Here's a source on dictionary.com if you don't trust Wiktionary for whatever reason.
> Oh my fucking god. What you are describing isn't irony.
"manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., especially as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion."
So this is ironic. The owner of the magazine has issues with violence against women so you would expect his magazine not to run something that puts him in a bad light, but they did. Text book case of irony.
In much the same way your refusal to understand that this is ironic is a form of dramatic irony.
Wrong, they took over his rally through intimidation and threats, which is pretty much the definition of terrorism.
But way to immediately play the racism card.
Oh, Israel, really? And where do they they get their funding for there military? From the US government aka the US taxpayer. In case you don't know what a tyrannical government is, here you go [link]. So let's say hypothetically that the next US president is a tyrant, are you suggesting that every gun-owner in the US should totally be ok with being on some form of a government list?
There is nothing hard to understand about people making stuff up, and thinking they can just repeat things that got refuted to make them true.
Not only is a war declaration not required for it to be war, but NONE of the definitions include anything of that nature. How about that. So seeing how we're all about understanding the most basic things, I can rest assured you got that, right? You were wrong, you learned something today, you're welcome.
Women can get pregnant and require time off work - A true statement.
If you refuse to employ women because you're concerned they may get pregnant and require time off work - That's discrimination.
Definition: "treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit"
So by saying that all Jews don't like authoritarian figures, therefore these writers killed off a character because the writers are Jewish - Is by definition, discrimination - As it's their being Jewish that has lead you to say that about them.
You need to remember that the people with Network subscriptions are mostly the hardcore older audience. Also, Pro-wrestling has been PG for most of its existence. So it's not really that surprising and it's most definitly not 'ironic'.
To me this came across like a...brag, maybe, video. He came out swinging with dictionary definitions and didn't even get that right. A consumer advocate is in no way, shape or form, required to be a lawyer or anything of the sort. I checked 3 different references [1] [2] [3] and none have any mention of it requiring a lawyer position or anything close, and I'm sure if I kept looking, that trend would continue. He starts off so smug yet so wrong, so right off the bat I'm disagreeing with him. Not a great start.
It just seems to me like he's found that he disagrees with several of the most prominent people who are classed as consumer advocates, and decided that because he disagrees with some of their opinions, that he doesn't want to be labelled as one. What he doesn't seem to realize though, is that journalists who do their job, are by definition, consumer advocates. They advocate for the rights of their readers to have access to un-biased information and facts. Which gets even stronger if you're a journalist who focuses on a specific field like gaming, because by reporting all the facts, the glitches, the poor treatment of staff, the harsh microtransactions etc. etc., you are advocating for the rights of the gamers (consumers).
He seems to just be arguing semantics (and doing a very, very bad job of it) purely because he's got a stick up his ass about Angry Joe, Jim Sterling and Total Biscuit. I don't even like any of the three, and I know Sterling at least is about as far from an actual consumer advocate as it comes, but if you're an ethical games journalist, you're a consumer advocate by proxy. Behaving ethically and advising consumers of the things they need to know is advocating for them.
You're being either incredibly naive or intentionally obtuse. He has made his motives quite clear. The first comment he made about this was on Fox and Friends where he didn't say he wants to "go after their families" like you claimed. He said he wants to "take out their families". Everyone knows what it means to take someone out. It means to kill them (unless he wants to take their wives out on dates).
Then, he was asked about this at a debate, where the question explicitly asked about killing family members of terrorists and Trump never said "no, I never said anything about killing them". He answered the question justifying why that was the right move. Here's the video.
>You're filling in his motives as well, saying that he just wants to kill terrorist families. I really doubt that, I'm sure he'd rather there be nobody planting bombs and trying to kill us.
I have no idea what you're trying to say here. We'd all rather there be nobody planting bombs and trying to kill us. That has nothing to do with murdering family members of terrorists.
It's still a terrible fault in the logic for Sweden too, they seem to be willing to do it in the name of harm reduction but making one side of a voluntary legal transaction punishable but not the other is a terrible injustice.
Some species of chameleon do change their colors to hide from predators.
The word "chameleon' has already taken on the definition "a changeable, fickle, or inconstant person" in the English language. Whether the etymology is based on sound principles is at this point irrelevant.
I don't agree with you but that's OK! Here's why i disagree, nicotine is the substance we are addicted to, cold turkey is completely stopping. References below.
Or just google it: noun 1. the abrupt and complete cessation of taking a drug to which one is addicted.
You are right. But I guess the difference lies in whether you go with sanguine or sanguinary
The latter link also points out the common confusion.
Alright I'm gonna go the extra mile so that you can enjoy ~~this barely funny joke~~ the dad-joke of the year.
First definition of draft (#5): A current of air in any disclosed space.
Second definition of draft (#3): Act of drawing.
Puppey is drawing up his team, he is drafting his five heroes in order to play a game of Dota 2. At the same time, Puppey wants better air-flow going in and out of his room. Puppey is drafting a team, and wants air to flow more freely; he wants better drafting. Puppan, however smart, has no college degree. He confuses air-draft and team-draft, and hopes that a better airflow (a better draft), will help the way that he is building his hero line-up (puppey is drafting). He therefore leaves the door open, so there's greater draft in general, and he hopes that the increased airdraft will help his drafting of heroes.
I hope I have helped if even just a little bit
That's it. The events tonight have swung my vote. Under no circumstances could I stand with a voting bloc who is ok with using violence and intimidation tactics to suppress political speech.
I look no further than trusty ole Dictionary.com for the #1 definition of what happened in Chicago: [link]
terrorism - [ter-uh-riz-uh m] - noun -
- The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
Goodbye Bernie, HELLO TRUMP! It will feel very weird asking for a Republican ticket this March 15th when I go to the poll, but hey, Donald has converted this Democrat. That much I can tell you.
Definition of Powerlifting You have to compete OR test your strength in the 3 lifts for it to be considered powerlifting. So as long as you atleast test your strengths I think you could consider yourself a powerlifter.
> Gnostic simply means that we know how they came to this belief
I've never heard anyone define "gnostic" this way, but that doesn't mean it's wrong. I try to go by dictionary definitions like this: [link]
but I realize culture can use a word differently and essentially change it's meaning.
Would you say that your definition of "gnostic" is more cultural or technical? If it's technical, please link to source.
I liked your version better so I looked it up. I guess it just means at the limit of your mental faculties. It seems the word wit originates about 900CE so probably just a fun trade myth.
Sport: an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
It's called empathy and it's a pretty normal response. I believe not having the ability to feel for others is a sign of psychopathy.
Here's the dictionary.com definition for the word surrogate:
>noun > 1. >a person appointed to act for another; deputy. > 4. > a substitute
The campaigns directly control surrogates, not the media.
>I believe campaigns use them based on their potential outreach/influence and resources.
So they're relevant. That means their comments are influential and do matter; surrogates directly represent the campaign that uses them. We can conclude the Sanders campaign did call Clinton a "corporate Democratic whore".
Should we continue the charade or ...?
Merchandise? Who gives a fuck about merchandise? Guile is up there with the main cast, and to point out their absence this other guy brings up Balrog (only a boss in the first game, not playable) and Juri (only introduced in SFIV), and you bring up Cody (a guy from another game series who has been in a total of two Street Fighter games) and Sakura (another character only in two Street Fighter games)... do you guys even know what "staple" means? Let me help you out:
staple (noun): "goods in steady demand or of known or recognized quality." (edit: emphasis added)
You put Ryu, Chun Li, Guile, Dhalsim, or any of the other original fighters on a billboard, almost as many people recognize them as would recognize Mario. You put Balrog, Juri, Cody or Sakura on a billboard, nobody gives a shit except the fighting game community.
Those terms are so fucked up because biweekly can mean either every two weeks or twice a week and bimonthly can mean twice a month or every two months.
So biweekly and bimonthly are synonyms and they aren't. Cool!
EDIT: I think a lot of people think my comment is off because of their understanding of what "synonym" means.
"noun 1. a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language"
Application in an original meaning of the term:
> the special use or purpose to which something is put:
> a technology having numerous applications never thought of by its inventors.
- Den-O (電王) literally means "electric king". While a different kanji, the "den" in "den-oh" is also the first character of "train", which is "densha".
- Kiva is interchangeable with "kiba", which means "fang", although the official spelling uses katakana (キバ) rather than kanji (牙).
- Blade is an old word for the spade suit. This is also followed by Chalice, which stands in for the old cups suit. Garren is a corruption of the word "galleon", which is another name for the coin suit in old tarot playing cards. Leangle is a type of club used by Australian aboriginals.
- Faiz/555/Phis is a huge pun on Japanese pronunciation of "fives". Get it? Three fives?
- Kuuga and Agito are named in their respective shows by the bad guys they fought. I don't think they're supposed to mean anything, they're just part of an alien language.
3 a : to reduce drastically especially in number b : to cause great destruction or harm to
Let me help you off that high horse.
They certainly use a lot of nonstandard words. If you look at the Wikitionary page for "transsexed" you can see them used as the sole example yet again, but that doesn't mean they are the only ones using the term that way. I would concede it being an error on the OPs part if they say so, and Alison Stone using very odd phrasing, but I strongly suspect the word has more usage than just her. That said, it is unbelievably hard to find in that context given the plethora of "Transgender is a term" and so on.
Perhaps to prove your point, the vast majority of cases that seem to use the word in non-standard ways are explicitly anti-trans. You can see a few of them here, with this being other uses of the sense we are discussing:
>Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is 'Mental Disorder;' Sex ...
Also, dictonary.com has a brief mention of this sense:
>The adjective is more common than the noun; in fact, some people reject the use of transgender as a noun.
And I've found this article which discusses the offensiveness of the term, and gives us several examples of its use as a noun.
It seems you were on the money: People who say "transgender" as a noun are almost always anti-trans.
SJW here.
Mansplaining: Sexist word. Not totally fine.
Bossy: Not inherently sexist, just often used in a sexist way.
cunt: From the dictionary-
>All senses of this word are vulgar slang andare very strongly tabooed and censored. The meanings that refer to a woman and a contemptible person are used with disparaging intent and are perceived as highly insulting and demeaning. There are many words used to refer to people in sexual terms. However, to call a person a cunt, especially a woman, is one of the most hateful and powerful examples of verbal abuse in the English language.
Emphasis mine.
I have never seen that word (milquetoast) before, I have absolutely no context for what it would mean. So I looked it up:
> a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, especially one who is easily dominated or intimidated
from: [link]
I gotta say, I still don't think I understand what you were going for.
> Also, I think DAO is getting far too much attention. The focus should (my view anyway) be on Dapps and building an even stronger ecosystem. That will bring us beyond Bitcoin and on to $100 ETH.
The purpose of the DAO is to fund Ethereum based projects, especially Dapps. It is a major turning point to developing a Virtuous Cycle.
Here, you can read up on the definitions.
This is not disagreement about "moralistic". It's that you're insinuating a Randian morality where selfish actions are thought of as virtuous, that would be considered abhorrent in a moral framework that is not as insane.
> sarcastic__cunt: "read the definition of genocide and make an attempt to demonstrate how Israel state is not doing it. you will fail"
- genocide ˈdʒɛnəsʌɪd/ noun noun: genocide; plural noun: genocides
"the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular nation or ethnic group."
2015 Palestinian Demographics:
- 1997 2,783,084
- 2002 3,225,214
- 2012 4,293,313
- 2015 4,682,467
WORST "GENOCIDE" IN HISTORY!
EDIT: The Palestinians were "genocided" so bad by Israel (between 2012-2015) their population rose by 400,000 people sarcastic__cunt.