SwingingTheLamp

Hey, I think I cracked it, folks!

Central to all of this, unsurprisingly, are councils’ shrivelled post-austerity budgets, and the ever-increasing challenge of keeping road networks up to scratch when their other statutory obligations such as special needs.

Turns out, roads are really bloody expensive.

Gosh, so owned. So very, very owned. By such an intelligent and aesthetically pleasing being. What an honor!

Ah, so we judge actions not by their merit, but by who performs them? Or, put another way, if you wrestle a pig, you both get muddy.

What’s hilarious is that I knew that this kind of reply would be forthcoming. Thanks for not disappointing!

You know nothing about me, and very little of what I think, yet you conceptualized my motivations as attacking my enemies, and now you’re telling me what I think.

I just suggested some introspection.

Look at the other replies I’ve received, and think about how people outside of your online community might feel being on the receiving end.

Yes, the reflexive “allies and enemies” framing of the situation does reinforce the image of a harassment campaign.

Oh lordy, ever have one of those moments when you know you’re about to do something dumb, but do it anyway? Well, I would ask that you folks stop for a moment, and observe this situation from an outsider’s perspective. From where I sit, this very thread right here looks like a harassment campaign.

Without doubt, the turkey. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride: The North American bird is named after the Eurasian country because it reminded settlers from Europe of an African bird, the guinea fowl. Allegedly, they called the guinea fowl “turkey fowl” because it was first imported to Europe through Turkey.

That’d be crazy enough, if it stopped there. The French call it dinde, as in d’Inde, or Indian fowl, because it came from a land originally confused with India. The Dutch, though, call it kalkoen, which derives from “fowl of Calicut,” which is a city in India now called Kozhikode. Lots of other languages use a derivation of this word. Apparently, they got turkeys from India after Portuguese traders brought them from the Americas. I say Americas, because the Portuguese name is perú, a South American name that they used to refer to Spanish settlements in the Americas, generally. The Spanish, on the other hand, call the bird pavo, derived from the Latin word for peafowl, which actually are from India.

Germans, at least, call it Truthuhn, or Pute, onomatopoetic names based on the birds’ calls.

As the other commenter shared, in Germany they’re working on an interchangeable battery system. In the U.S., the manufacturers sell intro bundles cheaply to get us locked into their “ecosystem.” That’s the scam part. I’ve got a drill and impact driver set that i paid less for than the replacement cost of the included batteries. It’s the same scheme as inkjet printers.

Cordless power tools. Yes, they are useful in concept, but today they’re just a loss-leader to sell you overpriced batteries.

Until this moment, I kind of thought that Zendaya was a brand of yogurt.

Shit, man, there are probably even people out there who don’t even know who Norman Borlaug was, if you can believe it.

That’s what Medicaid is for.

Sean Duffy strongly asserted that the tower was fully staffed at the time of the crash. So, we already knew that it definitely short-staffed.

Thanks for the excellent reply. I don’t exactly agree, but I love that it’s logical, clear, and respectful.

They allegedly did a study to see whether there was enough traffic, a step which requires a certain commitment of resources. If the placement of a stop sign would’ve harmed safety by displacing traffic flow, then they could’ve cited that without spending time on a study. But they didn’t, from which we can conclude that a stop sign is okay there.

It may be a science, but that doesn’t place it in some rarefied air of infallibility, any more than any other science. It’s only ever as good as how it’s applied, and how any science is applied is always subject to human fallibility. Traffic engineering is especially bad in that respect, routinely and as a matter of course being subverted by political considerations, not least by the fundamental choices about who and what matters, and who and what does not matter. It does not deserve much respect as a practice.

But with that said, in this case, even the traffic engineers agreed that a stop sign was an appropriate treatment for this intersection when they rejected it on the basis that the traffic volume wasn’t high enough to warrant installing one. Presumably, if there were more cars, it would be fine. So, yes, we can say confidently that this man made the area safer.

It benefits the average Christian American because they’ll get taken into heaven. See, the Jews all have to gather in Israel to kick off the war that leads to the Second Coming and the Rapture.

I wish this were a joke. That’s really what they believe.

If it’s not satire, then calling it “malice” is too on-the-nose.