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savvy

a word meaning "shrewdness and practical knowledge"

I would bet this is a cognate from the Spanish word, saber, to know...

not pronounced like a sword you rattle, the Spanish pronounciation rhymes with the random phrase "not hair," or "au pair" like the French word for a live-in nanny/housekeeper. Saber is also pronounced with a "v" sound in Spanish not a "b" sound

this verb, saber, is infinitive, so if you wanna say like "ya know" as a phrase of speech, like people often do (y'know?) folks say "sabe?"

That's how you conjugate saber politely, or almost pedantically if it's a friend, otherwise you'd say "¿sabes?" to a friend casually.

And sabe is pronounced almost identically to "savvy" aside from the Latinized or Anglicized a-sound, and it's used exactly like Jack Sparrow uses it, savvy?! 🫠😨😲😵

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fkn TBI roulette wheel

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This is capitalism's vast irrationality and inhumanity in action. Markets and The Economy™ matter more to capitalism than the concrete distribution of resources according to tangible human need.

Resources exist in abundance -- give them to people. Housing sits empty -- give it to people. The rules of the feast table should apply to our economic system -- no one gets seconds until everyone has gotten a plate.

We stand at a crossroads in these chaotic times: socialism or barbarism! The ruling class repeatedly chooses the latter. We need to organize and choose the former!

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Trump is the worst liar

Or

he has full-on dementia

Which is it?

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Benito Would Be So Proud

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fell asleep in da sun):

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They conveniently forgot to mention it was an Executive real estate speculator. #OpenSeason

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a rich lather? in this economy?

i'll be working my soap into a working class lather for the time being thank you

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I feel like what fireaxis games is grasping at with this big change to civ 7, with the nation changes, while the leader stays the same, I feel like they are grasping at something that could be better accomplished by having nonplayer civilizations, that kind of act like advanced "barbarians," and these rival powers, shall we say, could essentially spring up only in a certain age, and they might have special abilities, unique to themselves, that a player's civ could learn about an absorb somehow.

I just don't like the idea of a civ changing its entire identity three or four times every game, but I feel like they are trying to grasp at something that is a real phenomenon where powerful civilizations will rise and fall in certain ages. So I feel like they need to explore that grey area between player civs and "barbarians" and get into that kind of "advanced barbarians" gameplay where it's not just "barbarians" but it's a rival non-player civ that just rises and falls quickly in one age, and can accelerate a civ's growth by providing tech, culture, and even cities without needing the player to build a ton of settler units for that region, thus accelerating the gameplay without it being unrealistic

They already kind of have this going with the city state thing, but what I'm envisioning is like "city states" that aren't just one city, and through interacting with them or not, a player can have the opportunity for free technology gains, city gains, culture gains, or not...

How different IS Civ 7?

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le museé horseé

the world's leading museum dedicated exclusively to art made by horses