A young woman I knew was complaining that she had made plans to meet a friend in the city (long before most people had mobile phones), but the friend hadn’t showed up so she waited for a long time on the street corner.
My brother immediately chipped in, “what was his name, John?”
It may seem silly, but aside from commuting time the biggest advantage for me was being able to use my own bathroom. No bidets in the office washroom!
What do you call it when large corporations and employers gain control of the government and manipulate laws and taxation systems for their benefit so that money accrures more and more to them?
They rigged the system so that they gain more and more advantage and wealth.
It’s even better than that. In WordPress, you can select a plug-in from within your WordPress administration, and install it directly. You receive update notifications by email, and can upgrade within the administration panel as well. You don’t have to download and then upload anything.
In both Drupal and WordPress, you can upgrade the site and plugins/modules from CPanel.
I find Drupal just as easy to set up as wordpress. Most shared web hosts have a script to do everything for you, including installing updates. In fact, I find Drupal’s administration more logical and easier to manage. (I may be biased, since I spent 10 years developing Drupal sites.)
The other advantage is that, unlike WordPress, Drupal themes and plugins (the Drupal term is “modules”) are almost all open source and free. I find that WordPress has lots of plugins that give you the basic version for free, but then want to upsell you to a paid version.
I mostly given up on Meidas Touch, after years of videos proclaiming that Trump and the Republicans are going down hard. They do have some useful information, but it is embedded in a lot of editorializing that doesn’t really do anything.
If you watch that channel, the Trump administration is on the verge of collapse, and it’s too disheartening to find time and time again that it isn’t.
I like Jitsi, but when I record a session it always silently aborts after about 40 minutes.
Try Language Transfer. I can’t recommend it highly enough. It is just a set of MP3 files that you listen to. The teacher explains something to the student, and the student tries it out.
It sounds silly, but it works really well, and it is the best language resource I’ve ever used.
You can use them through SoundCloud (downloadable MP3s), YouTube, or with the simple but very effective app.
It’s all free, although you are welcome to support the project with donations. I have been making a monthly donation for several years now.
Language Transfer . Much better for learning a language than Duolingo.
I was seeing a lot of crashes two or three years ago, but none in the past year or so.
Being Ukrainian puts a completely different spin on it. My comment still holds true for Americans, but I would rather not see Ukrainians ground under the heel of another dictator, especially one enabled by the stupidification of the United States.
I’m sorry, but I don’t see it. The century of American supremacy is coming to a close. You may not want to admit it, because everyone in the US has been thought about American exceptionalism since they started school. China will rise, as will Europe possibly. I think Russia is failing as well. Its current lashing out is the end of their term as a great power.
The US is a big country, and the fall will be slow, but I don’t think there is a way to stop it now. I suspect that future historians will trace it back to the Nixon era. Come to think of it, every Republican president since then has also been really, really shitty when it came to preserving the health of the democracy.
Canada got rid of the penny more than a decade ago, and it doesn’t seem to have caused any serious problems. If you are paying cash, stores just round prices to the nearest five cents.
Now if the rest of the world could only join Canada using Robertson-head screws, everything would be perfect!
You are assuming that there will be elections again. I’m not convinced.
Hitting inferiors in the head (especially for doing something foolish) is certainly a common trope in Japanese comedy.
It’s been a couple of decades since I lived in Japan, but I don’t know if they have experienced the same campaign against childhood violence that we have in North America. A few years ago, corporal punishment was made explicitly illegal both at schools and in the home. I’m not sure how much it has changed.
There was a time, not that long ago, when cremation was not an option for Catholics. At some point, the church changed its mind. Maybe in the seventies or eighties?
I can understand being frustrated and angry with the Democrats for essentially being a status quo party that favors their corporate benefactors.
What boggles my mind is thinking that voting Republican would make any of that better, when in fact it seems pretty clear that it is going to make everything much, much worse.
The problem is that nowhere is safe now. I’m Canadian, and I wish I had somewhere to go. And just imagine how the poor sods in Palestine, Ukraine, and so many other suffering countries, are feeling right now.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Vladimir Putin’s armies weren’t occupying large swaths of Eastern Europe by the end of this term.
Conversely, Japanese people learn to tell the difference between an “o” vowel held for shorter or longer periods, a skill that I find incredibly difficult even though I lived in Japan for 7 years.