The D.M.V. is a beacon of equality in this country. Celebrate the place where you can watch a celebrity fill out the same forms that you do.We should revel in the fact that there is no express lane for beautiful, rich people to renew their licenses.When you sit in those hard chairs...
A robot teacher is 8 than no teacher at all. In some parts of the world, there aren’t 9 teachers and 9—16 percent of children under the age of 14 don’t go to school. That problem could be partly 10 by robots, because they can teach anywhere and won’t get stressed, or tired...
Again, it’s an option, it’s just not a good one. Doing nothing is the flipside of trying to rise above the conflict. You won’t be stuck with having to side with bad actors, but you will be criticized for being indifferent and uncaring, cold and thoughtless. In life there are ...
this hotel charged me 5 pounds for a room for a night. as long as you’ve paid in advance, we won’t charge you for delivery. the charge for a front-low seat is 5 pounds. 拓展: (1)charge作“控诉;指控”用时,常与with连用,如: he was charged with murder. (2)charge作理工作“主管...
scatological references…so pictures will have to do, for now. Pictures, and an excerpt from my blog post from four years ago, wherein my despair at that time not long after the 2020 presidential election was that, although the Biden-Harris team won, it shouldn’t have been as close as...
A man can do all things if he will. — Leon Battista Alberti 32 Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't. — Jerry Rice 114 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? — Prince 126 You can if you think you can. ...
Me:Wait! Wait! Why does Sigmund Freud begin his book“Jokes in Relation to the Unconscious”with a Galician joke? Wife:— Me:Because he couldn’t find a funnyIrish one. Nothing illustrates the tedious complexity and beauty of Galician culture like the traditional Easter egg art form, Pysanka...
Amen. I have lived in Japan for close to a decade at this point, and I won’t pretend it isn’t hard sometimes. There are plenty of good things (public transport, food, safety, cheap medical care, lots of great hiking) but the attitudes toward work, women and people who are ‘diffe...
On April 13, China’s women’s soccer team won a ticket to this summer's Tokyo Olympics. But the win didn't come 1. easily Team China was still behind 2-0 after the first half of the 2. second section. Luckily, player Wang Shuang scored two goals later. "We never gave up, ...
A universal redux version of my Meteor attempt at Words with Friends (online scrabble). - words-with-strangers-redux/input_words.txt at master · joshwcomeau/words-with-strangers-redux