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Jhonata, Jhonatan, Jhonnatan, Jhonnathan, and Jhonnattann are all real (and distinct) Brazilian football players
(there is also a Jhonattan, but he is neither Brazilian nor a football player)
(there is also a Jhonattan, but he is neither Brazilian nor a football player)
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Jhonata, Jhonatan, Jhonnatan, Jhonnathan, and Jhonnattann are all real (and distinct) Brazilian football players
(there is also a Jhonattan, but he is neither Brazilian nor a football player)
(there is also a Jhonattan, but he is neither Brazilian nor a football player)
I would be surprised if more Americans than can be counted on one hand actually understand how a magnet works
And no I don't mean a percentage here
(...OK maybe more if we include possible child savants who hadn't reached voting age yet and plausibly, like Christian Heinrich Heinecken, never will)
And no I don't mean a percentage here
(...OK maybe more if we include possible child savants who hadn't reached voting age yet and plausibly, like Christian Heinrich Heinecken, never will)
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I would be surprised if more Americans than can be counted on one hand actually understand how a magnet works
And no I don't mean a percentage here
(...OK maybe more if we include possible child savants who hadn't reached voting age yet and plausibly, like Christian Heinrich Heinecken, never will)
And no I don't mean a percentage here
(...OK maybe more if we include possible child savants who hadn't reached voting age yet and plausibly, like Christian Heinrich Heinecken, never will)
More than half are legitimate, or more than half are illegitimate?
I'd be very surprised if there are more than 100 countries in the world today (or as of 2019, if that's more convenient) which would count as legitimate by that definition. I would still be quite surprised if there are more than 50
I'd be very surprised if there are more than 100 countries in the world today (or as of 2019, if that's more convenient) which would count as legitimate by that definition. I would still be quite surprised if there are more than 50
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
More than half are legitimate, or more than half are illegitimate?
I'd be very surprised if there are more than 100 countries in the world today (or as of 2019, if that's more convenient) which would count as legitimate by that definition. I would still be quite surprised if there are more than 50
I'd be very surprised if there are more than 100 countries in the world today (or as of 2019, if that's more convenient) which would count as legitimate by that definition. I would still be quite surprised if there are more than 50
NGL I feel sad sometimes that Evan McMullin didn't win in Utah in 2016
he had a very small but nontrivial (~0.1% by 538's estimates) chance of winning the entire election, which is *very* good for a third party candidate (admittedly the scenario didn't require him winning any more states than Utah)
he had a very small but nontrivial (~0.1% by 538's estimates) chance of winning the entire election, which is *very* good for a third party candidate (admittedly the scenario didn't require him winning any more states than Utah)
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
NGL I feel sad sometimes that Evan McMullin didn't win in Utah in 2016
he had a very small but nontrivial (~0.1% by 538's estimates) chance of winning the entire election, which is *very* good for a third party candidate (admittedly the scenario didn't require him winning any more states than Utah)
he had a very small but nontrivial (~0.1% by 538's estimates) chance of winning the entire election, which is *very* good for a third party candidate (admittedly the scenario didn't require him winning any more states than Utah)
There are many scale models actually! But AFAIK most of them are just little spheres mounted on explanatory plaques along a road, because, yes, the scale is too large for much more than that.
The Swedish version is quite monumental, and takes advantage of a large round building to represent the Sun.
The Swedish version is quite monumental, and takes advantage of a large round building to represent the Sun.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
There are many scale models actually! But AFAIK most of them are just little spheres mounted on explanatory plaques along a road, because, yes, the scale is too large for much more than that.
The Swedish version is quite monumental, and takes advantage of a large round building to represent the Sun.
The Swedish version is quite monumental, and takes advantage of a large round building to represent the Sun.
...in practice that would just mean that people would try their best to never move *at all*, and if it's unavoidable, try in advance to find someone willing to let them in who doesn't live *too* far from the new place.
Though I guess they can also just build a hut or something; it's likely cheaper.
Though I guess they can also just build a hut or something; it's likely cheaper.
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
...in practice that would just mean that people would try their best to never move *at all*, and if it's unavoidable, try in advance to find someone willing to let them in who doesn't live *too* far from the new place.
Though I guess they can also just build a hut or something; it's likely cheaper.
Though I guess they can also just build a hut or something; it's likely cheaper.
I guess the limit antilandlord opinion is that whenever people have to move they should sell their old home and buy another in the new place, and if they don't have enough money for that yet, they should live under a bridge or on the streets or something.
(Hotels might be acceptable during travel.)
(Hotels might be acceptable during travel.)
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I guess the limit antilandlord opinion is that whenever people have to move they should sell their old home and buy another in the new place, and if they don't have enough money for that yet, they should live under a bridge or on the streets or something.
(Hotels might be acceptable during travel.)
(Hotels might be acceptable during travel.)
It's not always *legally possible* to sell, either.
And sometimes it's *technically* possible but would result in major tax trouble, and/or visa trouble, and/or other trouble (again, especially for refugees, for whom it's often very hard to legally transfer so much money out of their home country).
And sometimes it's *technically* possible but would result in major tax trouble, and/or visa trouble, and/or other trouble (again, especially for refugees, for whom it's often very hard to legally transfer so much money out of their home country).
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It's not always *legally possible* to sell, either.
And sometimes it's *technically* possible but would result in major tax trouble, and/or visa trouble, and/or other trouble (again, especially for refugees, for whom it's often very hard to legally transfer so much money out of their home country).
And sometimes it's *technically* possible but would result in major tax trouble, and/or visa trouble, and/or other trouble (again, especially for refugees, for whom it's often very hard to legally transfer so much money out of their home country).
But yeah, in practice, when a family ends up with (temporarily) more apartments than they currently need, their options are either renting the extras out, or, if that's too unethical, letting them sit empty indefinitely.
...which is probably *even worse* in terms of limiting housing availability.
...which is probably *even worse* in terms of limiting housing availability.
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
But yeah, in practice, when a family ends up with (temporarily) more apartments than they currently need, their options are either renting the extras out, or, if that's too unethical, letting them sit empty indefinitely.
...which is probably *even worse* in terms of limiting housing availability.
...which is probably *even worse* in terms of limiting housing availability.
I suspect that the official no-landlords-ever answer is that if it's *that* important to him he should move in there with the kids and commute to work, or, if it's *completely* impossible (commute takes multiple days, and/or crosses international borders), make (some of) the kids live there instead.
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I suspect that the official no-landlords-ever answer is that if it's *that* important to him he should move in there with the kids and commute to work, or, if it's *completely* impossible (commute takes multiple days, and/or crosses international borders), make (some of) the kids live there instead.
I was surprised today in a mall in Actually Israel to see how much Christmassy stuff there was everywhere.
Now, granted, our town has a large Russian minority, so maybe they think of it as New Year stuff, but come on, it was in US Xmas colors and with, like, reindeer. Ded Moroz doesn't use reindeer
Now, granted, our town has a large Russian minority, so maybe they think of it as New Year stuff, but come on, it was in US Xmas colors and with, like, reindeer. Ded Moroz doesn't use reindeer
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I was surprised today in a mall in Actually Israel to see how much Christmassy stuff there was everywhere.
Now, granted, our town has a large Russian minority, so maybe they think of it as New Year stuff, but come on, it was in US Xmas colors and with, like, reindeer. Ded Moroz doesn't use reindeer
Now, granted, our town has a large Russian minority, so maybe they think of it as New Year stuff, but come on, it was in US Xmas colors and with, like, reindeer. Ded Moroz doesn't use reindeer
(Even in that case there'd likely be *some* rounding-up-and-exiling going on, though maybe not *very much* of it; just enough for the next batch of settlements. Arabs displaced for Karmiel were citizens too.
OTOH it would also be a situation that isn't very well described as "a Palestinian state".)
OTOH it would also be a situation that isn't very well described as "a Palestinian state".)
November 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
(Even in that case there'd likely be *some* rounding-up-and-exiling going on, though maybe not *very much* of it; just enough for the next batch of settlements. Arabs displaced for Karmiel were citizens too.
OTOH it would also be a situation that isn't very well described as "a Palestinian state".)
OTOH it would also be a situation that isn't very well described as "a Palestinian state".)
Some one-state-solutionists do apparently expect it to be a nice little combined democracy that would not involve anyone being rounded up and exiled
this is extremely unlikely to actually happen in any one-state situation except the one where Israel just annexes West Bank and gives them citizenship
this is extremely unlikely to actually happen in any one-state situation except the one where Israel just annexes West Bank and gives them citizenship
November 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Some one-state-solutionists do apparently expect it to be a nice little combined democracy that would not involve anyone being rounded up and exiled
this is extremely unlikely to actually happen in any one-state situation except the one where Israel just annexes West Bank and gives them citizenship
this is extremely unlikely to actually happen in any one-state situation except the one where Israel just annexes West Bank and gives them citizenship
heck, if you want *medieval* fantasy, just reuse the darn Carolingian LSD system that approximately everyone in medieval Europe actually used
but noooo it's 1000 copper = 100 silver = 10 gold = 1 platinum. sometimes there's iron or wood or something below that. no one has *interesting* currencies.
but noooo it's 1000 copper = 100 silver = 10 gold = 1 platinum. sometimes there's iron or wood or something below that. no one has *interesting* currencies.
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
heck, if you want *medieval* fantasy, just reuse the darn Carolingian LSD system that approximately everyone in medieval Europe actually used
but noooo it's 1000 copper = 100 silver = 10 gold = 1 platinum. sometimes there's iron or wood or something below that. no one has *interesting* currencies.
but noooo it's 1000 copper = 100 silver = 10 gold = 1 platinum. sometimes there's iron or wood or something below that. no one has *interesting* currencies.
OTOH I do kinda want so see a fantasy setting some day that uses Spanish-Empire-like binary currency rather than the whole "10000 copper = 100 silver = 1 gold" thing everyone seems to use these days (OK sometimes it's factors of 10, and/or there's platinum or orichalcum or something on top of this)
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
OTOH I do kinda want so see a fantasy setting some day that uses Spanish-Empire-like binary currency rather than the whole "10000 copper = 100 silver = 1 gold" thing everyone seems to use these days (OK sometimes it's factors of 10, and/or there's platinum or orichalcum or something on top of this)
I personally know some refugee families who rent out their old apartment(s) in their former homeland to supplement their relatively meager income in their current country.
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I personally know some refugee families who rent out their old apartment(s) in their former homeland to supplement their relatively meager income in their current country.
I mean TBF there's no rule saying that social housing has to be necessarily long-term.
What is student accommodation if not a kind of social housing? Same kind of thing could apply to foreign workers.
AFAIK some larger companies do in fact have similar worker accommodation housing projects.
What is student accommodation if not a kind of social housing? Same kind of thing could apply to foreign workers.
AFAIK some larger companies do in fact have similar worker accommodation housing projects.
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I mean TBF there's no rule saying that social housing has to be necessarily long-term.
What is student accommodation if not a kind of social housing? Same kind of thing could apply to foreign workers.
AFAIK some larger companies do in fact have similar worker accommodation housing projects.
What is student accommodation if not a kind of social housing? Same kind of thing could apply to foreign workers.
AFAIK some larger companies do in fact have similar worker accommodation housing projects.
Guy Fawkes, whose night was celebrated earlier this week, is the (somewhat indirect) etymon of "guy" as in "person"
(his name, in turn, is apparently a shortened version of "Guido", which is of distant Germanic origin and probably cognate with "wood")
(his name, in turn, is apparently a shortened version of "Guido", which is of distant Germanic origin and probably cognate with "wood")
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Guy Fawkes, whose night was celebrated earlier this week, is the (somewhat indirect) etymon of "guy" as in "person"
(his name, in turn, is apparently a shortened version of "Guido", which is of distant Germanic origin and probably cognate with "wood")
(his name, in turn, is apparently a shortened version of "Guido", which is of distant Germanic origin and probably cognate with "wood")
the Serbian word for "year" is not only cognate to, but in fact spelled the same as, the Ukrainian word for "hour"
November 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
the Serbian word for "year" is not only cognate to, but in fact spelled the same as, the Ukrainian word for "hour"
the word "able", as in "able to do", is unrelated to the suffix "-able", as in "doable"
(to be fair they don't mean *quite* the same thing)
(to be fair they don't mean *quite* the same thing)
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
the word "able", as in "able to do", is unrelated to the suffix "-able", as in "doable"
(to be fair they don't mean *quite* the same thing)
(to be fair they don't mean *quite* the same thing)
another cluster of wildly divergent words with the same origin is mark/march - all of "sign", "German currency", "long walk", and "military song" derive, through variously meandering pathways, from the original meaning "borderland" (as in "Denmark")
the month is unrelated, though (it's from "Mars")
the month is unrelated, though (it's from "Mars")
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
another cluster of wildly divergent words with the same origin is mark/march - all of "sign", "German currency", "long walk", and "military song" derive, through variously meandering pathways, from the original meaning "borderland" (as in "Denmark")
the month is unrelated, though (it's from "Mars")
the month is unrelated, though (it's from "Mars")
all the common meanings of "check" are related, but the chess one was probably original
(yes, "chess" is also in the same cluster, and yes, that means it originally came from "shah")
(yes, "chess" is also in the same cluster, and yes, that means it originally came from "shah")
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
all the common meanings of "check" are related, but the chess one was probably original
(yes, "chess" is also in the same cluster, and yes, that means it originally came from "shah")
(yes, "chess" is also in the same cluster, and yes, that means it originally came from "shah")