mars296

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[–] mars296@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The US Congress is legislative branch. Congress is divided into the Senate and House of Representatives.

What makes it confusing is that representatives are also referred to as "congressman" but senators are onky called senators. Despite both being members of Congress.

[–] mars296@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

Standard Sith vs Jedi violence.

[–] mars296@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

I find that people generally use "this" and "next" correctly but it depends how the week is being perceived. I think it might depend what day of the week it currently is. Like if it's Sunday, someone might say "next Saturday" to mean the first coming Saturday. But if someone says "next Saturday" on a Thursday they definitely mean the second coming Saturday.

[–] mars296@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah. Roughly $90 a week in groceries gets me 21 meals + snacks... Not 5 meals.

[–] mars296@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

We just add a bit of water to the dry food.

[–] mars296@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

He's right. Just not in the way he means.

[–] mars296@kbin.social 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. They could be down voted because what they mentioned is hated for a good reason. Like if someone posts "Nazis" or "cancer".

[–] mars296@kbin.social -3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't really see any false advertising. It is explicitly described as exactly what it is.

"An open source, cross-platform Spotify client compatible across multiple platforms utilizing Spotify's data API and YouTube, Piped.video or JioSaavn as an audio source, eliminating the need for Spotify Premium"

I guess it lacks the suggestion algo but that's the privacy compromise I guess.

[–] mars296@kbin.social 59 points 8 months ago

Your average Indian citizen is probably not as tuned in to the conflict as people in Western nations. Poor men in rural areas are pitched high wages (to them) for some easy work like building barracks away from the frontline. The same thing was happening in Cuba. Then once they arrived in Ukraine they were put in combat roles.

[–] mars296@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago

No! Don't release more balloons!

[–] mars296@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Goggle translate doesn't have Louisiana Creole since there is only 10k speakers. Haitian Creole is actually the only Creole language it has. Probably because there are 12 million speakers and they have a decent population in the US.

I don't know why you call me lazy for not doing hours of research for a quick comment letting you know 2 languages are different. I didn't say that they weren't similar. They are distinct. Especially in writing the differences would be obvious due to spelling differences to words that are pronounced similarly. I found some Louisiana Creole online to show you the difference:

English: Where do you come from?
Louisiana Creole: Éyou to sòr?
Haitian Creole: Ki kote ou soti?

English: What did you say?
Louisiana Creole: Ki ça to di?
Haitian Creole: Kisa ou te di?

Some things are very similar and some things are very different. But especially when written, they are obviously distinct.

[–] mars296@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Well I don't know. I actually recognized it hat you wrote as probably being Haitian Creole but I had to double check with a translator. I don't speak Louisiana Creole and Wikipedia says there is only 10,000 speakers.

I saw your Creole response and was wondering why someone would respond to an English post in Creole and went to your profile to see if you were Haitian. Then I realized your joke lol

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