homura1650

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The Avatar reappears as a child not at terms with their status, meats a young adult companion, and goes on an adventure while being pursued by a major military...

I guess it has been long enough that it is time to replay the original formula.


In unrelated news, I choose to believe that this was the plan all the way back in season 1, when Iron "lost" his white lotus piece.

There are no data points between 2018 and 2022. Having said that, looking at the more legible charts on page 57 of the full report (same content as the summary chart, just easier to read), it looks like:

  • Science has been falling pretty steadily starting at the 2009-2012 cycle. No apparent covid effects.
  • Reading and math both might have had a decline leading up to 2018 (I'd need someone to do actual statistics to know if it is statistically significant). However, they had a significantly bigger decline starting in the 2018-2022 cycle, and continuing into the 2022-2025 cycle.

This is a very common element of abuse. It is called DARVO, for:

  • Deny the harm or abuse
  • Attack the victim and/or victim's supporters
  • Reverse Victim and Offender

Personally, I view DARVO as the defining element of abuse, and what distinguishes it from mere neglect/battery/theft/etc.

You are still leaving words out. Under a standard analysis of English, the full sentence would be:

More people have been to Berlin than I have been to Berlin.

In my judgement as a native English speaker (with an undergraduates degree in linguistics), both that and the original sentence are grammatical. However, it is not obvious to me what they mean.

Looking at it as a linguist, I could hypothesise that the meaning is:

A) The number of people who have been to Berlin is greater than the number of times I have been to Berlin.

Going back to the original sentence, I could also hypothesise (as others in this thread have) that the underlying sentence is

More people have been to Berlin than I have people.

Meaning that I posses a quantity of people, and that quantity is smaller than the quantity of people who have been to Berlin.

Neither of these meanings are intuitive to me (a native speaker), and I would struggle to produce a coherent analysis of either of them. To be clear, that last part is not disqualifing, there are plenty of things in language that have elluded coherent analysis. And many more that have done so from me.

on Me_irl · c/me_irl · 1 pts · 17d

I just bought a set of new tires for $115 each (including installation). But that involved shopping around and not using the manufacturer recommended tires. The dealership wanted around $300 per tire.

Depends on the state. Around here (Maryland) there is no law against it. If the owner wanted to make a deal of it, they could maybe argue tresspess for entering despite the gendered sign telling you not to.

In practice, I've seen (presumably) cis men in the women's restroom to use the changing station as builders around here apparently are not familiar with the concept of fathers.

The Y chromosome does a bit more than just carry the SRY gene.

There is a condition where a father's SRY gene gets transfered to the X chromosome of a sperm, resulting in a child who is XX and SRY positive. [0]

In all known cases, such men are infertile. Fertility treatment is the main source of diagnoses for this, as that is typically the only symptom.

[0] This is de la Chapelle syndrome, although that syndrome also covers an even rarer situation of an XX SRY-negative child developing as a male.


There is also Swyer syndrome where an XY individual develops as a female (typically due to a defact in SRY). Such individuals general do not go through natural puberty and require hormone therapy.

Many (all?) states award attorneys fees as a matter of law for specific claims. In my state, most of our tenent protection laws award tenents attorneys fees automatically if they win (along with triple damages).

Private contracts also frequently include a loser pays provision.

Additionally courts can, under their own authority, award attorneys fees if one sides does something to drag out and increase the cost of litigation; which is almost certainly how this dispute got so expensive.

A) That is even more escalatory, and will lead Iran attacking more oil infrastructure in the region.

B) We can only destroy Karg Island once

C) The US had demonstrated an ability to block Iranian exports by navel power, which can be turned on and off as needed.

D) If destructive dominance were enough to win the war, the US would have one it long ago. Just like they would have won in Afghanistan

Iran views this war as existential, and the Strait as their most significant national defense asset. They are not going to give it up over concerns about oil revenue.

War crimes are not allowed under international law as part of a tit-for-tat.

There is some nuance here, where some war crimes could make what would normally be a warcrime by the other side not a war crime. For instance, it is a war crime to attack medics, and it is a warcrime for combatants to pose as medics. However, if a country commits the warcrime of having combatants pose as medics, it is no longer a warcrime to attack that countries medics.

on me_irl · c/me_irl · 2 pts · 66d

No no no. My entire outfit cost me $2.50. How will I get such good prices if you all hold onto your clothing?!?