For some perspective, I’m a structural engineer, and I designed a tornado shelter once for 250 mph wind speeds. It was only a small part of the building because the cost of designing a building or anything for 250 mph winds is stupid expensive (wind pressure is proportional to the square of the wind velocity, so a…

Idk, certain demographics are underrepresented in music scenes. It’s like female Rush fans. I don’t see the hurt with this one.

Honestly, this should have been part of the post. People outside of the swimming world can’t really appreciate how specialized races are, especially at that level. This happens at some level with sprint to mid-distance freestyle-backstroke-butterfly-IMers (à la Phelps, Lochte.) But even Thope never really broke into…

I didn’t mind Kaep until he showed basically no respect or humility in front of that Cuban reporter who questioned him about his Fidel Castro shirt. It’s one thing to disagree and a whole nother to blow someone off and think you’re the only one whose people are oppressed. Idk, this guy’s just an arrogant phony to me.…

I went for a run and cannot believe I forgot the most obvious ones:

I teach ESL too. I could list out maybe a dozen of the things that are most challenging to conquer, but the top ones for me are:

It’d say its lexicon is derived from many different languages—although most of the day-to-day words we use are of Germanic origin—but its grammar, temporal system, and phonology (which I personally weight more heavily) are unequivocally German.

I don’t think that’s quite true. Sanskrit evolved in the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European languages. The German branch was kind of its own separate beast.

¿La sociedad estadounidense poco ha cambiado? Incluso en los años 90 jamás se hubiera atrevido una pareja gay a tomarse de la mano en plena pública... Hoy en día cuando doy paseos por la ciudad, rara vez no veo por lo menos a una pareja abiertamente gay mostrando alguna forma de afección. La cultura estadounidense sí…

Here is an JGMadero translation of the El Mundo story, original below. As mentioned, coger is slang in many Latin American countries for to fuck. I’m actually surprised that’s how Google chose to translate it though... bastards.

Thank you for your opinion.

I can’t say for certain if they gave up or went into shock, but regardless my internal organs just stopped working for a few moments and I’m having to will them back to work one by one. Idk, I’m out of tears to give to this. I can’t, guys, I just can’t. I’m not a mother, but I feel like one right now. There is…