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Should be a wild four years.

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I am discovering I learned it in reverse. I always assumed "Too" was the verbiage for "Too Go". And "To" was the substitution "I have that to".

Oddly enough it was never corrected, not even in college. Look, English is a mongoloid language that doesn't know if it was too be German, Latin or whatever language it decided to pillage for useful words this century.
They were setting you up too fail.
 
I am discovering I learned it in reverse. I always assumed "Too" was the verbiage for "Too Go". And "To" was the substitution "I have that to".

Oddly enough it was never corrected, not even in college.
Having endured "English" courses in college within the past decade, I can attest to the poor quality of the education provided. I can easily compose, write and spell better than most professors I met at that community college. I had one actually-competent professor (who had a masters in English Literature and was a blast to talk to about Roman and Greek history) who would grade harshly for poor grammar and spelling, and without exception every student who ate a bad mark for it pissed and moaned about it.

I don't doubt you were allowed to carry on with that common mistake throughout college -- they either didn't notice, or didn't care enough about your education to offer a correction. Fucking sucks given how expensive the education is.

ETA: Wait 'til you see how badly people mangle "their," "there" and "they're." :story:
 
I had one actually-competent professor (who had a masters in English Literature and was a blast to talk to about Roman and Greek history) who would grade harshly for poor grammar and spelling
I learned more about English grammar from my teacher in high school who taught Latin and Greek than I did from any English teacher I've ever had.

That was how I discovered that I had learned a whole lot about how to write good and sheit by voraciously reading fiction. The harridans getting paid by the state in my earlier years of school to teach us how to do so clearly had no interest in furthering our development and just wanted to go through the motions and collect a paycheck.
 
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Latin is a criminally underrated language for its utility beyond 'a dead language'. So many words are rooted in it or related to it that taking it is largely beneficial especially for medical or scientific careers. All the weird rules of english and other romantic language made more sense to me after taking latin. Also, Romans.
 
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I am discovering I learned it in reverse. I always assumed "Too" was the verbiage for "Too Go". And "To" was the substitution "I have that to".

Oddly enough it was never corrected, not even in college. Look, English is a mongoloid language that doesn't know if it was too be German, Latin or whatever language it decided to pillage for useful words this century.
"To" = Getting from one concept to another. You want to get there quick, so the word is shorter.
"Too" = Also/as well, so we put a second "o" in the word also/as well.
 
Most buildings in Europe use a kind of window that props open and hangs out (so they can be opened in the rain without letting water inside). You can’t use a window unit. I guess you could use portables, but those are pretty crappy.

Different continents really do demand different approaches to air conditioning. When I started visiting Asia I realized all our HVAC knowledge would be worthless there because it’s so hot and humid. There’s no ‘design temperature’ and thermostats are kind of pointless. It’s more about deciding how much you want to spend on electricity, how noisy you can stand the unit to be, and only running it where you need cooling, because that thing is going to be running 24/7 no matter what you do.
 
F**king COPE. Israel is the US military proxy for the middle east. The difference between the Saudis funding 9/11 and the Saudi's being conciliatory and wanting to sign non-aggression pacts, trade deals, and alliances with the West [through Israel as a proxy].
Ultimate retardation. Israel is not a US proxy in any way, shape or form. Israel only does things that are in its interest, America be damned. And it’s able to do those things because it has had multi-decade blackmail and influence peddling operations that have ensnared feckless US politicians.

There isn’t a SINGLE thing that Israel has ever done that truly benefited America. Not one! And yet it is absolutely SHOWERED with US tax dollars that it NEVER pays back while also being protected on the world stage by American diplomacy. NONE OF THAT IS GOOD FOR THE US.

And to invoke the filthy goat humping Saudis as an example of ‘Israel’s help to the US’ is just brain damaged rhetoric. Both groups are vile semites that express unambiguous strains of mental illness.

If you want to be a contrarian or a shill for China/Russia/etc; at least be less obvious f**king glowtard.
There’s absolutely nothing contrarian about wanting America to be set free from the incredibly pernicious influence of a tiny speck of dirt in the Middle East that has done nothing but harm my country.

And who in their right mind would shill for the countries that are #1 and #2 for spying against and stealing technology from the US? Have you completely lost the plot?
 
Finally got some time to elaborate on that story.

Possibly thanks to insider trading, mega-neoliberal Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is exceedingly wealthy. Children raised amid more money than integrity are not always a pleasure to deal with. As a personal assistant to Wyden’s wife, 35-year-old Brandon O’Brien often had to babysit their offspring. A lawsuit alleges they drove him to suicide:
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The disturbing behavior began in September 2022 when the couple’s then-10-year-old daughter allegedly exposed herself to O’Brien, making “sexually explicit” comments and asking about his “intimate life” during school drop-offs, O’Brien’s husband, Thomas Maltezos, alleged in court papers…
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Mr. O’Brien had a “husband.” Brace yourself for an excursion into the realm of Democrats. :gunt:

Meanwhile, the Wydens’ teenage son berated O’Brien with homophobic slurs such as “f—-t” and “zest kitten,” and the boy said his “his football team ‘would rape him,”‘ the suit claimed.

The boy allegedly threw things at O’Brien and the mom once “maced her son to restrain him but inadvertently maced Mr. O’Brien,” according to the Manhattan Supreme Court papers.

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After O’Brien understandably quit, Wyden’s wife allegedly continued to harass him by accusing him of theft, hiring a private investigator to poke into his life, and spreading false rumors.

Although the merits of the suit have yet to be determined, it is a fair guess that you don’t want to work for the Wydens — or be governed by them.
 
Different continents really do demand different approaches to air conditioning. When I started visiting Asia I realized all our HVAC knowledge would be worthless there because it’s so hot and humid. There’s no ‘design temperature’ and thermostats are kind of pointless. It’s more about deciding how much you want to spend on electricity, how noisy you can stand the unit to be, and only running it where you need cooling, because that thing is going to be running 24/7 no matter what you do.
South Florida does it fine, so I'm not sure how much I buy this. Yeah, there's a constant thrum of an a/c that is running 24/7 to cool things. But we manage to get along okay.
 
I was going through a procedure I'd been fretting over and asked the nurse how bad it was going to hurt. She said, "last guy pissed himself right away."

That made it better, somehow.
Never EVER accept anesthesia that knocks you out for any medical procedure. You might never wake up. You have no control over your body. People could look at your private parts completely unbeknownst to you. Someone could touch you inappropriately. Most importantly, pain lets you know that you’re still alive.
 
After O’Brien understandably quit, Wyden’s wife allegedly continued to harass him by accusing him of theft, hiring a private investigator to poke into his life, and spreading false rumors.
I wonder how their offspring turned out to be such asshats.

Every day that goes by I learn more and more how lucky I got with who my parents were.
 
Never EVER accept anesthesia that knocks you out for any medical procedure. You might never wake up. You have no control over your body. People could look at your private parts completely unbeknownst to you. Someone could touch you inappropriately. Most importantly, pain lets you know that you’re still alive.
yeah, no. There are some procedures you really, REALLY don't want too be awake for. For example, open heart surgery is LITERALLY the Norse "Blood Eagle". Your breast bone is split laterally in half, your ribs are splayed too the side, and the doctors go in and start touching parts of you that are not meant too be touched.

Even if you weren't feeling pain, I don't think the experience would be pleasant.
 
After O’Brien understandably quit, Wyden’s wife allegedly continued to harass him by accusing him of theft, hiring a private investigator to poke into his life, and spreading false rumors.

Although the merits of the suit have yet to be determined, it is a fair guess that you don’t want to work for the Wydens — or be governed by them.

yeah but maybe he just lost his fight wrestling with that demon of homosexuality.
 
On one hand, Ron Wyden is a useless leech more interested in owning Blonald Blumpf than doing anything useful for Oregon.

On the other hand, 'zest kitten' is incredibly funny, so at least he's raising his kid to be a proper homophobe?

Having a slutty 10 year old daughter is very concerning if true, though,
 
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