1984 Here we come. The Thoughtpolice have arrived.

Incase anyone finds it useful.

Using a redirect to this website can be quite nice as well.

http://removepaywall.com/

Usually, it ends up in the hands of the elite.

Otherwise they wouldn’t lobby for it.

Don’t be shy to put up a book donation flyer in the local wallmart or something if allowed.

Lot of people have books rotting away in basements they wanna offload.

So am I kitty, so am I

The tool measures distance with vocabulary. Afrikaans may be closer in vocabulary but pronounced very differently (since there’s way less cross talking since it’s so isolated), which would make it harder to understand to a Dutch speaker?

Yes. This is often true. But Flemish and Dutch are far far closer in linguistic distance than dutch and german.

And they are completely mutually intelligeble. Unlike Dutch and German, (which I prefer to call hochdeutsch, since german is a nationalist contruct that erases many other languages spoken by peoples living in Germany-Switzerland-Austria.)

Like here we get a distance between Flemish and Dutch of 5.6, that’s the lowest I’ve ever seen with this tool.

While 13.5 with Dutch and German.

Compare that to French and Occitan, Occitan is a Romance language in southern France, which got erased and often claimed it’s just “part of french”. The distance between them is 20.

Edit: Playing round a bit more with the tool, Your point is proven. The distance between Dutch and Afrikaans is lower. Only 2. Yet that’s considered different languages.

Suprised no ones attacked you for calling Flemish Dutch ahhaha.

(They lowkey are the same language but many people in Flanders hate it being called dutch ahhaha)

Thanks :)

This heathenous map adds basque and catalan, welsh, scottish gaelic, but somehow erases breton and occitan.

I dunno how it translates french “fou” into “new”. “fou” means mad/crazy.

I heard Mint and Elementary both mentioned a lot for switchers.

Any reason you recommend mint over it?

Never tried either of them myself so just curious.

Oh totally, wasnt saying they were the same. was just adding an interesting thing to the discussion.

It’s like Catholic Church vs Protestant Church. 😭

Although it’s technically not lice, this is called swimmer’s lice in many languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimmer’s_itch?wprov=sfti1

You’re saying it’s a suprise Venezia (Venice), has the most yearly tourists? Seems unsuprising to me. It’s all everyone talks about.

I mean Venice has near 10 times the name recognition of say Colmar.

I think a better comparison might be Machu Pichu in Peru?

Or you know, abolish capitalism.

Totalitarist capitalism is not my cuppa tea, but suit yourself ;)

Probably lucky he didn’t get disappeared. Actually he lowkey did, but they released him after.

In any case, fuck Billionaires (but also fuck totalitarian governments like the CCP).

That’s kind of you.

There’s not much unfortunately. If you have a couple bucks free you could donate to one of the better labs. Ie. this excellent genetics team. But I realise that isn’t feasible for most people.

Otherwise just maybe reading a short article about how politically marginalised the illness is could be helpful. In having more people “woke” on this issue. This article by Monbiot is short and works quite well.

:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myalgic_encephalomyelitis/chronic_fatigue_syndrome?wprov=sfti1

Most underfunded illness per burden in the US (and most of rest of world). src