I do not consider you an idiot one bit for what it’s worth. I definitely did not know that word for a significant portion of my life.

It’s not something that appears in books or something you come across in school.

Gotta keep that hope up!

I actually consider this really positive on a few fronts.

Firstly, people are trying to learn. That’s great.

Oligarchy is not a common word if your English level isn’t great and that’s true for lots of people. Even if you read books a decent amount it’s not something I think you’d come across frequently.

Also, for folks who don’t know what an oligarchy is, for them to find out they’re possibly living in one may change their world view.

I’m sure there are more.

pinky winky promise me not to do that again

Best I can do is “no”.

Mars Guy.

He’s a geologist who does a weekly video rounding up what perseverance has been up to and it’s one of the best parts of my Sunday.

The entire circle represents total value for all car makers. Area taken up is their ratio of the total. It’s geographically colour coded.

Nobody has any illusions that it’s Ukraine cutting off the supply. Weird that you even think that.

Why would they feed the economy of an invading force after the agreement expires? It’s a miracle they left it in place this long.

Yeah that’s the one I just watched it through. Thanks for the link. Absolutely reckless behaviour from the owner after the previous crack event on dive 80 to go down again. Just so many bad choices.

Fascinating that they had the data to tell them it wasn’t safe and just ploughed ahead without examining it.

What the fuck? That’s mental. I’d never heard that little nugget before.

Also a h person on herb as is my entire country.

I have two:

I pronounce the d in Wednesday. Like wedns-day.

Vagaries - vag-air-ees. I think this is an Irish thing.

I say it as two syllables: cray-on.

I have never heard it pronounced any other way. Not American though (and I suppose you may not be either!).

I agree with all of that but some folks just aren’t clear communicators and / or English isn’t their first language so unless it’s a real workload to read, I’m generally grand with it.

I actually find the general standard of text posts on here very high. I’d bet money that the number of correctly used commas per post here is way higher than the internet average, though that’s purely anecdotal.

It’s from a TV show called “The IT Crowd” and it’s an excellent watch. Highly recommended.

Couldn’t agree more.

Our kitchen table was pretty expensive when we got it and is destroyed from a heap of kids use and family meals over about 22 years. It is firmly agreed (by them too) that when my wife and I die it will be the only thing the kids fight over possession of.

Haha. They’re bouncier than they look. There was a huge craze of them in the late 80s where I live. People definitely lost teeth.

5000 consecutive bounces on a lolo ball (aka pogo bal)

How goes it?

Good luck with it. Retro game corps does a decent overview of his setup which would probably help someone starting out. Pretty fascinating watch actually.

Having travelled a lot, I feel I was born into what I consider a great country just as it was starting to pull itself out of poverty. Pure chance.

I got a good education and college was essentially free.

I have a lot of kids and work really hard at being a good dad so I am surrounded by love. I am very lucky that I am married twenty years (some better than others) to someone who still loves me and who I still love. Some days that love is all that keeps me going because fuck me I am exhausted haha.

I feel uncomfortable typing all that out but it’s a good exercise in thankfulness so thank you.