The Golden Path!
hakase
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The New York Times mini crossword for today
Horizon: Zero Dawn. Such a haunting, beautiful story.
Do you know what happens to a toad joke when it's struck by lightning?
Oodelally oodelally!
"Open sounds" (which, I assume, refers to continuants) and bilabial sounds aren't mutually exclusive.
When you pronounce the /w/ at the beginning of "one", your lips round (purse) and touch each other at the corners, but they don't form a full closure. So, the oral tract is still open, but the articulators (moving mouth parts) are still touching.
This could be reworded as "the middle of your lips don't touch each other", but multiple commenters are correct in that your lips absolutely do touch each other when you say "one" in English.
Exactly. Sarah is well aware that it's not a pencil and paper that's out of reach for most people, but the time, effort, and talent it used to take for an individual to produce anything worthwhile.
She doesn't like that the ability to make the pictures in your head appear in real life has been opened up to everyone. She's strawmanning to gatekeep just like the boomers who say "I had to pay for my school loans and so you should too".
It’s much easier to wear and police seatbelts
You can't be serious. It's far easier to police high BMI, since it's much more obvious and way easier to spot fat people in public who are a danger to themselves (and to that healthcare system you're so concerned about) than a small strip of fabric at a distance through the windshield of a moving vehicle.
If you could feasibility do the same for high BMI, yeah, that’d be great
Wow, "we should have cops police BMI" is definitely not the argument I was expecting. You clearly are Australian.
The imposition on the individual would far outweigh the benefit to society.
You're so close! Soooo close! Just dust off that brain and try to follow the breadcrumbs!
the benefits are undeniable.
Then it should have been super easy for someone in this thread to name one, and yet...
from Australia. So don’t lump me in with your right-wing liberals
Oh, I'm not, trust me. I'm lumping you in with one of the absolute worst countries for personal liberties in the free world. Seriously Australia, get a grip.
Once again, the problem here is that all other objects become deadly internal projectiles in the case of an accident as well. If we really cared that much about the danger from projectiles (human and otherwise), then by law, cars should come with multiple tie-downs all over the interior of the vehicle, and it should be illegal to have an object in the car over five pounds not firmly secured by them.
The reason, of course, that that isn't mandated is the same as the answer to all of the other questions in this thread: in the end it's really just about policing people's behavior and choices (and securing an additional revenue stream for cops, as well as a handy additional excuse to pull people over and violate their rights).
We shouldn't curtail people's freedom of self determination just because it will make other people have to do their jobs.
Manufacturers should be required to provide seatbelts. Failure to do so affects others negatively.
If we continue to not mandate healthy eating habits, easily preventable diseases will continue to take up extra valuable hospital resources, extra valuable emergency response resources, and simply expose more people to death of someone they know. Outlaw high BMI now!
Lemmy is a combination of control-obsessed tankies and nanny state libs - of course I'm getting downvotes. Fortunately, I'd rather be right than popular, and I guarantee you that someone read my comments here and realized for the first time just how ridiculous and hypocritical seatbelt laws are. They probably still downvoted, because accepting that what you've always been told is incorrect is difficult, but the seed will have been planted.
Even way back then philosophy majors still needed a day job.