does piraha have the imperative mood/how is it used...

Lmao every apartment I’ve seen has like 3 people who make twice as much money as me also going to see it and bidding up the price. If you do this kind of shit you are the problem and should consider killing yourself instead

are there theories of how/why the imperative evolved? do commands have an evolutionary function?

solved!

context: "[Roger Straus] always said that he wanted to publish authors, not books. This principle contained not only an admirable loft but also a faint implication that ~"

came across this in john mcphee's draft no. 4: "if you had a dog you could bring it to the party", used idiomatically as far as i can tell. nothing from google -what does this mean?

I would read a content analysis of the way the Times. WAPO, CNN, Jake Tapper etc... covered Biden leaving Afghanistan compared to this absolute debacle of the War on Iran by Trump.

queuing is a premium feature on youtube now... the enshittification...

Later this month! Join us for a conversation with Leela Jacinto, Senior Editor at France24 specializing in the Middle East and South Asia, as she talks about the ongoing war in Iran

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JD Vance heads to Hungary to support Viktor Orbán ahead of high-stakes election Viktor Orbán has said the EU is a greater threat to Hungary than Russia. As an election defeat looms, U.S. Vice President JD Vance is visiting to support him.

jd vance priorities today i see… www.cnbc.com/2026/04/07/j...

If you have any information at all on these plans, now is the time to share it. Reach me on Signal at marisakabas.04

need to become extremely weird in 10 business days

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

If the Democratic Party was smart, and theyre not, they would be flooding airwaves and feeds on Asian and Hispanic centric forums, feeds, algos, radios etc that Trump is trying to take away their citizenship by race.

talking about how GenAI "democratizes" things is so corny. "People who did not learn a skill" is not a discriminated group lol. It absolutely lets people do things they couldn't, faster. That can be good and that can be bad. But don't moralize it in a way that makes you sound dumb.

fear and loathing in heaven or las vegas

“.. With tariffs pushing Canadian aluminum elsewhere last year, American companies became *increasingly reliant* on imports from the Middle East ..

“.. Those sources are now imperiled by the Iran war ..” 🤡

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don't get why TSA shouldn't be abolished as well

i don't think i've ever admired an author the way i am low key stanning vikram seth right now

Two samples of text in moon. The top piece has the English moon alphabet, with tactile and printed letters, and the text "god is love". The bottom piece also has the alphabet plus a paragraph written in moon.

Hi, folks! I'm looking for books embossed in moon. I'm particularly interested in finding as many copies, editions, and variations (even incomplete sets) of "The Gospel of John" that are in moon type, but if your library or archive has ANY moon books, please let me know? Example of moon type below.

scary bioprocessing facility to table

#30BooksWrittenByWomen

邱妙津《鱷魚手記》1994

Qiu Miao-jin: Notes of a Crocodile

UPDATE:

Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT

The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

plagiarism is a vital and generative process in the ecosystem of text

also: low key iran is acting how taiwan should behave in the event of a chinese invasion

so what's going on with fuel imports in taiwan? LNG reserves, iran-qatar, etc...

I've put my monthly donations to ProPublica on hold and diverted that money to the union's strike fund.

just finished The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth... i'm low key devastated