To be fair, those kind of mean the same thing

Not in normal Sprite, no. Are you talking about Lemon+?

When God closes a door, he opens a window.

Celebrate “us labor day” like normal and then “international labor day” in May. Easy.

No one wants fewer days off anyway. What could be more in the spirit of celebrating workers?

I suspect Vangelis’s work on BladeRunner had a big part to play in this

In Vietnam, if it’s a café they’d ask you hot or cold.

Normal restaurants you’d get iced tea, usually very strong unsweetened Lipton yellow label.

Void deer sounds tempting, I wonder what the 401k will be like?

LGBTQ+ issues are kind of a warzone right now, because conservatives see trans rights issues especially as a wedge issue they can use to pull in people who might support gay marriage but still feel confused or grossed out by things like trans women using women’s bathrooms.

This conversation eats up a lot of the space that could be used to talk about things that would (should?) actually be less controversial, like accessibility.

Conservatives don’t want to talk about it because it would be a straightforward loser for them. Lots of progressives don’t have time to talk about it because they’re circling the wagons to fight for trans people having the right to… (checks notes) exist.

This isn’t to say disability issues aren’t as important. The point of intersectional activism is for many disparate groups to fight together against the kinds of people who want to separate them. A rising tide that helps everyone.

It sucks because it’s slow and painful and people get increasingly tribal when they feel under threat.

Because they’re socially liberal, opposed to most forms of social conservatism. The term rose to prominence in its current US meaning in the 1920s and 30s.

It was first used (in this sense) to identify a more moderate economic approach as compared to movements that were perceived as more radical like progressivism, socialism, communism, etc.

Everything else here 100% deserves the credit but I didn’t see anyone mention Divinity: Original Sin 2, which is also amazing.

Tons of little songs I found myself idly humming for days/weeks after playing and a thoroughly epic main theme.

The finale of the game where time slows down and the music swells is one of my favorite gaming moments.

I still haven’t grown the fuck up

The author made a point of calling the head of the foundation “her” repeatedly after making clear they’re non-binary. I’m sure this article has no agenda or anything.

Don’t do it

So they install heated seats and then make you pay to unlock them?

That seems… not cost-effective

If you don’t mind my asking, which language is yours?

It’s an interesting question to ponder which different languages ended up with distinction words for the meat vs the living animal, and maybe what that says about the culture.

The distinction is not a feature of French, from what I understand, and English ending up with this distinction seems to have been entirely accidental.

My understanding is that the difference in terms goes back to the Norman invasion, which is when a ton of French-based terms for things were carried over.

The peasants referred to everything as the name of the animal but the French nobles referred to it as porc, boeuf, etc. This is also where we got the words for venison, mutton, veal, poultry, and also apparently pheasant

This is 1000% better as a response than I’ve seen recently from other Islamic countries and I’m a little sad it’s getting dunked on so much. Others are calling for speech to be silenced in response to Quran burnings and they’re literally just saying “hey, could you just read it instead?” It’s a low bar compared to Western Values ™️ I guess but this kind of response should be what we strive for even if you don’t agree with them on anything else.

Some accents of English have “linking r”/ “intrusive r sounds” for similar reasons, like when the end of a word and start of the next are both vowel sounds.

Example, some non-rhotic accents still pronounce the ending r in clear/gear before a vowel sound, or you might get “Pamela [r] Anderson” because of the back to back “a” sounds

Spanish has a lot of connected speech features, too. Especially with words that start with open vowel sounds, since most Spanish words also have open vowels at the end. Example, “Mijo/Mija” (term of endearment for your kid) comes from shortening “mi hijo/hija” (my son/my daughter). There are like 100 other examples I’m forgetting and my spelling is probably wrong since my Spanish is quite rusty but you get the idea

The shade those parents must’ve felt to have their interviews used in what turned out to be free marketing for Nintendo lol