How the hell do you wreck lentil soup that bad? Heck, there are lots of different cultures around the world that make tasty lentil soup. There’s German lentil soup with potato, carrot, and ham; there’s Indian dal in a range of flavors and colors; there’s Turkish Ezogelin soup with bulgur and paprika …

Mare-Ih-Joe-Wah-Nah

Necromancers imply the existence of necplatonics.

Baltimore is south of the Mason-Dixon line. Mason and Dixon surveyed the border between Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware.

In the mid-19th century, Maryland was a slave state but did not secede and join the Confederacy. Enslaved Marylanders were, thus, not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, since that only targeted seceding states under Union Army occupation. Slavery in Maryland ended in 1864 with the adoption of a new state constitution.

If you see this, it worked for me.

Baggini’s The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten maybe?

Okay, let’s skip the formal logic talk then and go straight to linguistics.

The question “Good to merge?” does not contain a grammatical error. It is perfectly well-formed by the grammar that native English speakers actually follow in everyday communication. A grammar that fails to parse “Good to merge?” in context cannot parse native English speakers’ actual output.

Schoolbook English is not native English, because it’s not how native English speakers actually speak. Schoolbook English contains rules that directly contradict native English speakers’ everyday usage.

(Standard examples include the rule against split infinitives and the rule against ending a sentence with a preposition. These are not grammatical rules of English as it is spoken by native speakers. To boldly assert them is silliness up with which I will not put.)

The guideline (as applied) contains a contradiction, so the principle of explosion applies.

Specifically, there is a contradiction between “native-sounding English” and “no grammatical errors”, when the latter phrase is interpreted in the manner seen here. Native speakers quite often use sentence fragments and in other ways do not follow schoolbook “proper grammar”. In fact, second-language learners often use schoolbook grammar where a native speaker would use a more relaxed register.

Since the guideline contains a contradiction, it is either impossible to follow (i.e. forbids all communication whatsoever) or impossible to violate (i.e. forbids no communication).

Here’s the original article of which this link is a ripoff.

Good idea: make accusations in plain language. “Trump is corrupt and steals taxpayer money.” “Republican policies hurt Americans with jobs.” “Voting for assholes gets you shat on.”

Bad idea: make shit up. “Trump eats babies.” “Republicans summon Satan in their basements.” “Vote for me and I’ll cure your cancer tomorrow.”

ADOM’s Tower of Eternal Flame will burn you and your equipment if you’re not adequately protected. It’s also harsh on certain characters that usually benefit from heat!

Chiwolfhua.

Chihuahuolf.

House Republicans want to rape your kids too.

Why don’t all the rows have the same length? Did fewer people answer the question about newspapers than about banks?

Absence of awooga is not evidence of safety.

And that’s our entry for “bad headline of the day”, folks.

No, they were not ordered to serve out their sentence in a cartel-run ranch.

They were sentenced for their participation in running the ranch.

What are you trying to accomplish?

Are you trying to save human lives? Reduce suffering? Reduce some specific harm, such as from pandemics, or from severe weather due to climate change, or from trampling by elephant? Cure the specific disease that killed your great-aunt? Stomp Nazis?

If you say what you think is worth doing, people can point you to specific groups that are doing it.

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