From what I understand, Ukraine might be trying to sandwich the Russian troops between Kursk and Belgorod. Here’s an article from yesterday.

Thank you for that explanation :)

Dude, that webpage is so full of trackers, it doesn’t even load with ublock origin. Here’s the archive link.

This doesn’t exist anymore?

I kekked, but don’t understand the fetish of watching women have sex together unless you’re a woman yourself. Do dudes imagine themselves being one of the women getting fingerblasted? Or as the active participant scissoring the other woman? I do not understand. Please enlighten me.

How many inches are there in a foot? How many in a yard? How many in a mile? More importantly: why? The foot is from a duodecimal system (12 points = 1 line, 12 lines = 1 inch, 12 inches = 1 foot), but then then suddenly 3 feet = 1 yard.

Also the imperial system is simple, not logical. Sure, it’s based on body parts and simple things like that, but every moron could’ve seen that hands have different sizes. Now you have about 3 imperial systems (international, British, US) maybe more even more if the old colonies invented more units. Everyone knows the way forward for units it the SI units. It’s logical, it’s straight forward, and it’s used worldwide - except for a minority of regions that are staunchly are against it.

Change it to what? Twenty-one? One Twenty? Four times twenty and one? Four time twenty plus ten and five? You could go the Germanic way, the Anglo-Saxon way, or the French way. Probably there are more ways to express numbers.

It’s not as straight forward as imperial to metric, where metric is logical and imperial isn’t. A vigesimal system is logical, just like binary or hexadecimal.

That’s just sad.

American’t build a railway system worth a damn.

What’s your suggestion for a change to the Danish counting system? Do you think it is as obvious as going from imperial to metric?

For a real explanation of this watch this illuminating video.

TL;DW According to the perons, it’s based on counting sheep and from base 20. 1 score = 20 sheep. 2 score = 40 sheep.
To get to 50, you have 2.5 score, but they don’t say “two and a half”. They are quite Germanic and say “halfway to 3” (Germans do this too). So, 50 = half three score.

The video also points out that English has (as the hodgepodge of a language it is) yet another remnant of Germanic languages: 13-19 are not “te(e)n-three to te(e)n-nine”, but “three-te(e)n to nine-te(e)n”, just like in German “drei-zehn bis neun-zehn”.

It’s quite easy to mock other languages, but there’s always a reason for why things are the way they are. Think of Chesterton’s fence.

This reads like dentistry from the 1800s. You would’ve been a great dentist there. “I need to pull these teeth to make space for what’s to come”.

Pre-anethesia, you mean. There were dentists around for a long time, but I don’t think you would’ve enjoyed being their patient…

Thanks. That helps my understanding too. I just had a vague memory about the 50 million number.

JITter? What’s that gotta do with this?

Signal isn’t VC funded? I thought the WhatsApp dude gave it 50 million or something?

In developed countries the mortality rate is lower, for example in England and Wales from 2007 to 2017 death occurred between two and three cases out of 10,000

In children one to three cases out of every 1,000 die in the United States (0.1–0.2%)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles

So, the US has ~340 million people with 21% under 18. Maybe half are under 10? That’s about 34 million children. Say none of them were vaccinated and they all got measles. That’s 34k dead kids.
Vaccination rates are probably around 90% at the moment though, so of the 34 million, 3.4 million would be susceptible. That’s 340 dead kids.

If RFK Jr. thinks that’s an acceptable number of lives to sacrifice, go ahead. Do it.

What does this have to do with the onion?

All dogs go to heaven. Even those with guns.

Can’t deal with the free speech now, can they?