Hebrew and Arabic are semitic languages, not slavic ones. But I also basically agree with you that spoken quickly, they can all start to blur ‘cause (at least Hebrew and Russian) lean towards guttaral. 

Lots of people in his base have been going around saying that they are the nation; going by those terms he’ll probably do fine.

The one Trump appointee I’ve been worried about even before the cabinet of horrors started rolling out was the head of FEMA. I’m halfway terrified over how he’ll handle domestic disasters, never mind foreign ones.

Yup, it’s the correlational stuff that I’m curious about. Like all their impacts are typical of kids who have the sort of parents who are likely to smoke weed while pregnant, regardless of whether the parents actually do smoke weed.

Have you tried Estee Lauder? All the Clinique stuff makes me break out too, but the Lauder Perfectly Clean line seems to work wonders (also love their Enlighten moisturizer for being super light).

Seconding you on C/C++ not being newbie friendly. Taught it to baby engineers for years and what I would give for compilers with human readable error messages. I also advocate Python for beginners, and because it borrows a lot from C/C++ it ends up being a really good foundation for learning C/C++.

NOAA (which is department of commerce, but same kind of wait what is where issues of fed agencies) funds a ton of research on my campus, including a lot of opportunities for underrepresented minorities, so much so that it’s in some ways shaped the identity here. I’m somewhat terrified of how that may change in the new…

Posted the link as explainer for why the bankers in gov’t are usually from GS, not as an absolution of GS. Though on that front, Franny and Freddie were literally creations of the gov’t and yet involved in all sorts of scams during the foreclosure crises, so public service obviously doesn’t always yield public good.

not to mention blaming Jews for economic failure is precisely a tactic used in Nazi Germany during Hitler’s rise to power.

Just went down the rabbit hole of researching accidental deaths (kind of hard to find actually) and the current top 3 are solid substance poisoning (including ODs), car accidents, and falls. The other ones historically in the top were drowning, fires and burns, firearms, and gas and vapor posining, and so any of those…

/sigh so so very sick of my coreligionists selling out American Jews for a militaristic Israel policy. And I think it’s a policy that’s likely to put my secular do their duty and serve in the IDF cousins in danger for a cause they don’t believe in.

End to sanctions that are making him deeply unpopular at home, American sideshow that distracts the news and political discussions over there as much as here, invasion of any country within striking distance that would be beneficial in terms of pipelines or natural resources, deprioritization of renewable energy…

The daily news ran an article recently on the vast education difference between the new cabinet and the previous one. Obama stacked the deck with people with at least graduate degrees and quite a few PhDs, whole Trump’s cabinet seems to have fewer graduate degrees in total than Obama’s last education secretary.

I think you sort of highlight the problem. A guy I know is objectively pro-choice and has benefited from his girlfriend having access, but it wasn’t important enough to him to be a thing he factors into his decision on who to vote for. That’s immensely frustrating since the prolife side has so many men who will cast a…

I feel the same way and I’ve defended her Jewishness before...and still do in an objective her conversion was valid so she’s Jewish sort of way. But really, her and Jared’s Jewishness seems to have disintegrated over the course of the election except when weilded as a defense against accusations of antisemitism in the…

Was hoping for this too, but Boeing did throw 1 million his way for the inauguration so maybe he will succeed in this racket... I do hope he pushes this too far though, ‘cause the military-industrial complex is also glorified welfare for the middle class ‘cause those contracts have to be American made pretty much up…

Alternatively, Trump will resign before it gets too far when his business starts suffering and Mike Pence becomes president anyway.

A few years back they also had that kerfluffle where they were yelled at for being liberal (and congress threatened to kill their budget) and pretty sure that also contributed to their line toeing.

DiBlasio won’t though ‘cause this is basically a glorified cushy NYPD jobs program. As he’s been on the outs with the police union for years, this probably works in his favor even if the city has to foot the bill.

I was not fond of one of my local BernieBro turned Johnson voter in part ‘cause dude is not a parent ‘cause his ex had an abortion, and yet refused to factor access into his voting choices.