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HN strips WSJ's shared link URL parameters. Have to re-share in comments.

You're telling the person that pointed out you submitted a paywalled article? Maybe.. share the gift link in the comments instead?

https://archive.is/NpY8i


Free link?


ggm sez >"I'm going to give blowing willow smoke up my Anus a miss, if that's ok. "<

Speaking of which, here lie several drawings of people blowing smoke up a miss's ass FWIW:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/blowing-smoke-up-your-ass

While more hygienic than mouth-to-mouth resuscitation + CPR, I suspect legal complications would render the technique non-preferred today.

BTW the lady depicted in the first drawing has few, if any, clothing undergarments for a married woman of the year 1746. Indeed for any woman, any year.


Hasn't ChatGPT solved string theory yet?

Once again raising the question: "Should one trust a man who wears a bow tie?"

">* If the cops don't care about something, it's defecto legal. *<"

Ahhhh! A new English expression, "defecto legal". I like it! It should be the name of a website, defectolegal.com, for purposes TBD later.

The proper term is "de facto": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20facto

"Defecto" is Spanish for the English "defect", a flaw, an error.

Don't get me started about "giving a dam".


In English we don’t write commas or periods outside the quotes. The proper way is to write them inside the quotation.

- “defect,” a flaw, an error.

- about giving a dam.”

Don’t get me started about “for purposes TBD later.”


The other person who replied to you noted that this is not true in British English, but beyond that, it appears to me that my generation (Millennials) essentially all came to the same conclusion, which is that punctuation should only be included in the quotation if it's literally part of the text being quoted. (This probably has something to do with the programming mindset.) If you write

>The senator said that the bill was "bloated."

your sentence itself doesn't have a period. In order to give it a period you'd have to write:

>The senator said that the bill was "bloated.".

But then you're saying that the senator described the bill using the (non-)word consisting of the nine characters 'b', 'l', 'o', 'a', 't', 'e', 'd', 'PERIOD'. We've decided that this doesn't make sense.


Your point that this is a generational change is interesting and reminds me of boomers who still write double space after a period.

That’s only the case for American English. British English places periods and commas outside the quotes, unless part of a literal quotation.

">If the cops don't care about something, it's defecto legal.<"

Ahhhh! A new English expression, "defecto legal". I like it! It could be the name of a popular website.

The proper term is "de facto": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20facto

A defect is a flaw, an error, and "defecto" is Spanish for the English "defect". The meaning of "defecto legal" (English) thus remains in the wind, TBD. But I look forward to it's landing.


s/it's/its/g

You want the possessive ("its"), not the shortened form ("it is") which would make that sentence:

"...look forward to it is landing"

Thank you for sharing the Spanish interpretation, TIL :)


Need a free link please!

We gave up on you guys a long time ago: told your Dad to leave you behind a bush but he was a good Dad so, lucky you! Our bad.

I have no idea what you're trying to say.

>"Meanwhile, left barely does anything. They are not rocking the boat, they are powerless."<

The left's judicial branch is very active: they sue every chance they get. And since they've diligently packed the court systems for decades, and since population centers that are predominantly Democratic are usually the locations for filing significant legal issues, i.e., they have left-leaning populations, therefore left-leaning juries and leftist judges, they usually get what they sue for.

Maybe someday we'll be able to look at Epstein's mail or Clinton's e-mails even.


What are you talking about here. It was right wing who packed the courts - to the point the bias is blatant and obvious. They are not even trying to pretend they are impartial.

The "every accusation is an admission" thing is truly right with right wingers like you.

> Maybe someday we'll be able to look at Epstein's mail or Clinton's e-mails even.

Who was blocking the release? Trump. Trump was blocking the release.


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