OH, I get it. The pick up price is the purchase price. That’s pretty clever. Does that mean the trash collectors have to pick every bag up by hand and glance at the contents? How many categories of trash/bag are there?
OH, I get it. The pick up price is the purchase price. That’s pretty clever. Does that mean the trash collectors have to pick every bag up by hand and glance at the contents? How many categories of trash/bag are there?
Interesting! Does the curbside program bill you by weight as well? That sounds labor intensive, compared to here where you just rent the $small, $$medium or $$$large bin and pay quarterly regardless of use. And recycling and composting are free.
That is neat! But since it charges you to put things in, wouldn’t that encourage people to just throw their food in the trash? Or is that discouraged somehow?
The county I live in (Northern California) requires that household food waste go into the curbside compost bin, or home compost. They do random checks to make sure you haven’t put any food in the landfill bin and you can get a fine.
It gets turned into compost for landscaping, along with the yard waste, not food though.
Yes but Michael Phelps took them all 😞
Yesterday during women’s volleyball (Czech Republic vs USA) an American announcer said “Czechoslov……. Czechia…” I haven’t heard anyone upset about it yet, but I was expecting to.
Definitely less offensive than being chatty about “ladies and their silly lady habits lololol!”
Last time Palestine held an election the elected officials were in favor of maintaining peace with Israel. Then the Israeli government came in and kidnapped or killed the elected officials. They were replaced with unelected, not pro peace officials, and here we are, no more elections, no more peace.
My write in vote for “Palestinian Genocide Victims” for the democratic presidential nominee worked. You’re welcome everyone.
There is no such thing as basic grammar, FFS. If you knew what they meant then they conveyed their meaning perfectly and you are being needlessly rude. Unless you are grading a paper that has specific requirements for Standard American English™ there is absolutely no reason to be a cock about someone else’s perfectly expressive language.
Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: https://ygdp.yale.edu/project-description
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210528-the-pervasive-problem-of-linguistic-racism
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/01/07/the-limits-of-standard-english/
https://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/aave-is-not-se-with-mistakes.pdf
Language and Discrimination: Generating Meaning, Perceiving Identities, and Discriminating Outcomes: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-011659
“we regularly demand of people that they suppress or deny the most effective way they have of situating themselves socially in the world”—their language (Lippi-Green 2011, p. 63). Institutional function often depends on a particular set of beliefs about how language, especially the standard language, works. Lippi-Green and others refer to this set of beliefs as the standard language ideology, defined as “a bias toward an abstracted, idealized, homogeneous spoken language which is imposed and maintained by dominant bloc institutions and which names as its model the written language, but which is drawn primarily from the spoken language of the upper middle class” (Lippi-Green 2011, p. 64; see also Agha 2007).
See also: Prescriptive vs descriptive grammar and the uselessness of the former.
Don’t be a dick, Finland. (She says from a country that is providing arms and funding to Israel…🤦♀️).
The Hamas party ran on a moderate platform, Israel came in and murdered almost all of the elected leaders six months after they took office. The people who replaced them were not elected and did not have moderate values. They also decided not to have elections anymore. Half of the people who were alive for that election are dead. I don’t feel comfortable with this whole “Well, they’ve made their bed and now they can sleep in it while Israel indiscriminately bombs it” mentality.
They were at 34% support in the pols the day before the election, then won with 44%. Suspect? Also the Israeli government came in and murdered almost the entire government soon after the election, most of whom were pro Israel. Their replacements were not pro Israel. They stopped holding elections after that. (iTs ReCOrdEd hIsToRee!)
If a building is next to a building that has been completely leveled it’s almost certainly no longer structurally sound or safe to be in.
Israel (8550 square miles) is about the size of New Jersey. Gaza (141 square miles) is half the size of New York City and the West Bank (2182 square miles) is a little smaller than Delaware or two Rhode Islands.
For the west coast Americans, Israel is bit bigger than the SF Bay Area. Gaza is three times the size of San Francisco. The West Bank is roughly the size of Sonoma and Marin counties together.
At first glance it doesn’t seem that bad but the more you look the worse it gets. Almost every area of the photo is affected.
That is a pretty good shot. I can’t believe she’s 20 already! Where did the time go?
Washington traditionally shields its ally Israel from any Security Council action.
The rest of the article is extra.
I read this in Homer Simpson’s voice.
That’s really neat, thanks for explaining!