“We” being the collective “us”.

“We” always behaves differently than “I” do. That’s kind of the point.

I have no interest in presenting before the special committee; they should already have all the information they need from last time.

But I’m glad that link is there for any future scheduled public hearings; if there are any in my neck of the woods I definitely want to make my voice heard that corporations have no right to be influencing electoral reform, and that ANYTHING ranked choice is going to be better than FPTP.

I just don’t want to see a repeat of last time where they put multiple badly explained systems on the poll and then had corporations and big moneyed special interest groups advertising and lobbying against abandoning FPTP with blatantly deceptive arguments.

It’s not dying at all; it’s just dispersing. Entropy is odd that way; life turns out to be an entropy accelerator.

It’s like switching from cigarettes to chickory.

I’m curious: what counts as a road with a bike lane? Does that statistic mean that of all the toad surface, 2% has a bike lane beside or on it, or does that mean for every named road, 2% of them have a section that has a bike lane on it?

Because in my city, road improvements are paid for by property development. As a result, we have roads that have “bike lanes to nowhere” where you’ve got a separated bike lane for 2 blocks, that abruptly vanishes at both ends, sometimes into a shoulderless stretch of one or two lane roadway shared by everyone.

If that 2% is actually properly designed bike artery that’s fed by low density shared roadways, that’s actually pretty good. If it’s just randomly scattered throughout the city, it might be more dangerous than having no bike lanes at all.

I used to be a MEC member/shareholder, around 25 years ago. There was an AGM, we voted on major store policy, and there were sometimes even dividends, but usually we all voted to roll those back into the co-op.

Back then, it was very much member-owned.

Since then though, the structure changed significantly, even before the buyout. More and more power was put into the hands of the executive, to try and deal with the cash flow issues the company was having. It didn’t work.

Eats Shoots and Leaves

Of those three, only “white” is one that can’t change in an instant.

And Trump seems to want to cover that one up.

Seen those ads on the sides of McDonald’s trucks? The ones where the meat is missing from the sandwich and they say “what things would look like without Canadian ingredients.” My first thought was “wait… shouldn’t there be NOTHING THERE?”

East Asian people tend to be more racist than Russians; the Rus themselves tend to feel superior to other Russians, but aside from that superiority, they’re likely to not care much about race.

Chinese and Japanese? Very insular.

Of course, if you’re living outside China/Japan/Russia, you’re going to have different interactions with people from there, many of whom will have left because they rejected the culture.

No lol about it. That’s either a thinly veiled death threat, or someone saying that they will keep bullying and harassing until the person goes away.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot And now these new developers, They want to tear it all up.

Don’t it always seem to go, That somebody’s always going to complain? When you put in a garden, and stick some condos on top.

The content is open to interpretation based on context, but the «» indicates that English is likely not the quoter’s primary language.

So based on that, I have to ask: are you asking specifically about the nested idioms in the sentence?

Oh don’t worry; they don’t use real English. They use a version where they changed the bits they didn’t understand.

I always took it as “we’ve had to do 200 deals with one country. There’s no way we can build this out to another 149….”

This is America we’re talking about. If it’s not in English, it doesn’t count.

“There’s a difference between “siding with” and refusing to endorse something.

This is like them saying “in not cutting their hands off, voters continue to side with Democrats.”

It’s highly possible that most of those voters also don’t want to funnel their money to the 1% via Democrat policy. Many probably detest having to make a binary choice between what’s in their worst interest and what’s just more of what got us where we are.

One irony here is if the freedom gang who don’t believe in germ theory all converge on the farm… and contract H5N1.

Another is that the farm’s defense for avoiding the cull is that the ostrich’s antibodies are being used to combat COVID and H5N1.

Most likely you have ancestors who lived in what is now France. Either that, or you have ancestors whose descendants moved around, and some of them settled in what is now France.

This could have happened before or after France became a nation.

Then again, it’s pretty likely that you have ancestors who lived in Africa.

“I’m sorry, you can’t come here. We have evidence that proves you have links to Donald Trump.”