Usually, it ends up in the hands of the elite.

Otherwise they wouldn’t lobby for it.

Don’t be shy to put up a book donation flyer in the local wallmart or something if allowed.

Lot of people have books rotting away in basements they wanna offload.

So am I kitty, so am I

The tool measures distance with vocabulary. Afrikaans may be closer in vocabulary but pronounced very differently (since there’s way less cross talking since it’s so isolated), which would make it harder to understand to a Dutch speaker?

Yes. This is often true. But Flemish and Dutch are far far closer in linguistic distance than dutch and german.

And they are completely mutually intelligeble. Unlike Dutch and German, (which I prefer to call hochdeutsch, since german is a nationalist contruct that erases many other languages spoken by peoples living in Germany-Switzerland-Austria.)

Like here we get a distance between Flemish and Dutch of 5.6, that’s the lowest I’ve ever seen with this tool.

While 13.5 with Dutch and German.

Compare that to French and Occitan, Occitan is a Romance language in southern France, which got erased and often claimed it’s just “part of french”. The distance between them is 20.

Edit: Playing round a bit more with the tool, Your point is proven. The distance between Dutch and Afrikaans is lower. Only 2. Yet that’s considered different languages.

Suprised no ones attacked you for calling Flemish Dutch ahhaha.

(They lowkey are the same language but many people in Flanders hate it being called dutch ahhaha)

Oh totally, wasnt saying they were the same. was just adding an interesting thing to the discussion.

It’s like Catholic Church vs Protestant Church. 😭

Although it’s technically not lice, this is called swimmer’s lice in many languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimmer’s_itch?wprov=sfti1

Or you know, abolish capitalism.

Totalitarist capitalism is not my cuppa tea, but suit yourself ;)

Probably lucky he didn’t get disappeared. Actually he lowkey did, but they released him after.

In any case, fuck Billionaires (but also fuck totalitarian governments like the CCP).

That’s kind of you.

There’s not much unfortunately. If you have a couple bucks free you could donate to one of the better labs. Ie. this excellent genetics team. But I realise that isn’t feasible for most people.

Otherwise just maybe reading a short article about how politically marginalised the illness is could be helpful. In having more people “woke” on this issue. This article by Monbiot is short and works quite well.

:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myalgic_encephalomyelitis/chronic_fatigue_syndrome?wprov=sfti1

Most underfunded illness per burden in the US (and most of rest of world). src

The US day tends to have more politics because the US politics posts get bigger.

Paywall…

It really sucks. And like every second post is an add. Urgh

Try nextdns (ie. Addblock at the DNS level). It won’t work for facebook. But works for most apps.

Probably not a good idea, since measles tends to increase risk of something going wrong in the immune system thus triggering autoimmune diseases.

We have drugs that do similar things to measles in the specific sense of wiping out “immune memory” but often in a more targeted, more controlled, and less “random” manner than measles. Like Rituximab or Daratumab that deplete memory B-cells in different ways. They are effective for some subsets of autimmune diseases.

For example Rituximab is the gold standard treatment for Rhematoid Arthritis (RA).

thank fuck. i was getting sick of how uncustomisable adguard is

Also Japan, India, Malaysia.

Even the UK has covert influence from politics on district drawing tho officially its “independent commission”.