The wiki article is right, tessitura has both meanings. Though the quoted definition is still wrong, in that it doesn’t refer specifically to how long a song lives up high, it’s just where the song generally sits. A song could have a range of an octave and a half (for example), but the tessitura could be a fifth…

Can this be pinned at the top or something?

We use the word tessitura, which is how long a song lives up high. Now she’s singing in a range and a tessitura that is uncommon for her but is common for many of these other leading female artists.

What’s to understand? Protests that bring out thousands of upset people will bring out people that are so upset they make poor choices, and people who aren’t really upset or there to protest, but are using the chaos as cover for bad behavior. It’s not like any protest starts with the mission statement “we’ll block…

I imagine the police divers who recovered her body will need counselling.

I know that at some point, killing people who kill people because killing people is wrong becomes absurd.

Shut the fuck up, moron.

Nothing happens for a reason and some people are just broken...these two thoughts are the only way I stay sane-ish...

a) Criticizing someone for appropriating Harajuku is silly, because Harajuku itself borrows from non-Japanese cultures.

Dude. When you are quoting Stephen Colbert the CHARACTER without irony...stop.

If you have evidence that Manning committed her crimes as phase one in a nefarious scheme to get the government to pay for her surgery (where phases two through ten involve intense suffering for the better part of a decade), I’d be interested to see it.

It is pedantic, but accuracy should be important on a tech blog.

The other way to say it is that the raw footage showcased here solely depicts practical effects.

There are clearly special effects in use here.

OMG! Any man that would tell you that should also let you squeeze his balls while you have an epidural-free birth!!

Meanwhile, I told my therapist what mansplaining was this week and he (an older white dude) thought it was perfect and couldn’t believe he hadn’t heard what it was yet!

It’s the guns that make you provincial.

There are a lot of unmarked graves here too, they’re just usually from indigenous people.

From wiki:

Bethnal Green, though. Not plague, Blitz.