English works pretty much the same way (except for that quirk with “drug store”), when people talk about “drugs” they almost never mean alcohol etc… Even though alcohol is worse than many illegal drugs, main point in favor of alcohol being that it’s legal and thus you know pretty well what you get - no poisonous diluents/extenders, no guessing at how much of the stuff you buy is actually the drug you want instead of diluent/extender, no contamination with other drugs.
Words have meaning.
Alcohol, nicotine, caffeine are drugs, too.
AFAIK, most religions only talk about a few specific drugs (if any), but not drugs as a whole. As far as most religions are concerned, cannabis, cocaine, opiates are just fine.
See also !buyfromeu@feddit.org.
Ah yes, a reasonable and well-thought out reply to my comment.
I have no reason to believe that Israel even has the ability to hit a target that is anywhere near the US, so the US cannot be in the flight path of whatever target they hit with missiles. And who would they even want to hit where the US is on a potential flight path? Canada and Mexico?
Either way, if that’s our standard for “Israel bad because nuclear weapons”, every other nuclear power is an asshole to Israel, too, including the US.
Yeah sorry, I did not, in fact, recall correctly. Bill Clinton was definitely involved with Epstein, though.
What’s your answer to OP’s question then, if the “both parties are involved” explanation is supposedly Russian propaganda? There’s a distinct lack of comments who offer an alternative explanation.
You claimed specifically that Israel has nuclear weapons pointed at America, but when I asked you about it you only linked me an article that said that they have nuclear weapons. Considering how far away they are, “pointed at America” isn’t really plausible even if they wanted to, and why would they want to anyway?
Might as well claim that the US has nuclear weapons pointed at Israel, which is probably much closer to the truth.
So the point isn’t that Israel can actually hit targets in the US, but that they have nuclear weapons in general?
Weird how the same people who apparently cared a lot about Clinton’s adultery don’t seem to care at all about the adultery and worse of Trump.
And AFAIK his politics were pretty bad, too.
they literally have nuclear arms pointed at America
First time I heard of that, what’s that about?
IIRC Hilary Clinton divorced Bill after it became known that he was there. My bad, the divorce because of Epstein involvement happened between Melinda and Bill Gates. Bill Clinton was involved with Epstein, though.
Important party donors were probably involved (of both parties).
Epstein most likely had connections to the Israeli secret service and was definitely part of Israeli lobbying efforts. Both parties are heavily involved with Israel lobbying groups like AIPAC.
Your parents have much better taste in music than my grandparents or the oldie stations in my area.
What makes Death Metal different than Black Metal? They sound the same.
Nah. I’m not even a big metal fan and unless a band is blending the genres (“blackened death” etc.) they’re pretty distinct, the vocal style in particular should be pretty easy to tell apart. As a rule of thumb, Black Metal vocalists croak, Death Metal vocalists growl.
Trust me, I’m not talking about tracks that could reasonably be called “pop rock”. They were already playing pop rock all the time anyway, there’s a local group in that style that is (or was) so popular nationally that rappers from other cities were making fun of them.
I don’t think we have those kinds of oldie stations yet, oldies are for the 70+ generations here and they don’t want to listen to any rock music that’s fresher than Elvis Ü
Does it play on the rock station? Then it’s rock.
My local rock station started playing what is clearly pop music a couple of years ago. I think they still call themselves a rock station.
They tend to be distinct styles, similar to how bands within a genre can sound really different to each other. Now imagine that a couple of other bands says that one band’s style is the bee’s knees and start doing similar music.
It does get a bit too opaque and subtle at times, but I still think it’s usually helpful. e.g. “increasing level of angriness and decreasing level of clarity” is a big deal, many people don’t like listening to the extremely aggressive/unclear stuff and thus might say something like “I don’t like death metal, but power metal is great”. Even a Death Metal fan might think Grindcore is too much, etc.
And it’s pretty annoying when two things that should be different genres commonly get lumped together, like the early 2000s UK dubstep that was really bass-heavy, and Skrillex’ chaotic robot noises.
I got Avowed for 50% off. Having played through most of it, I feel like I should have waited for a better price. Not outright bad, but fairly unexciting, badly optimized and I’m SO sick of RPGs with frequent character closeups that all have stoic facial expressions. Plus you just know that we’re never going to get another Pillars of Eternity-style game from Obsidian again, it’s like Microsoft took the IP and studio and just took a dump on them. I don’t think I’m going to buy any future Obsidian games.
On the upside, I like the lore, story and voice acting (so far) and the combat was at least better than Skyrim’s.
Sure, French was itself something of a lingua franca in centuries past (and still is to a degree), and Spanish is already a great candidate because it has, right now, more native speakers than English. I learned Spanish in school as a third language just because (we had to choose between Spanish, French and Latin) - didn’t stick, though, listening comprehension for Spanish is very hard and there wasn’t enough incentive for me.
English’s hegemony as a lingua franca is to a very large degree because of the US, especially after the UK lost almost all of their colonies after WW2. That said, English would probably still be a minor lingua franca in northern Europe, because it’s a lot easier to learn than a romance language if your native language is germanic.