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[aromantisk-fagforening]

How many languages do you know at least little bit of?

Remake of an older poll (link here)

Like last time I am using a strict definition of language and a loose definition of being able to speak/knowing the language.

Details:

Sign languages count, conlangs count, super similar languages only counts one & dialects of the same language usually won't count (unless you can make multiple sentences in both that someone who only spoke the other couldn't understand), for Norwegian being able to write both bokmål & nynorsk only counts as one

You need to know more than 30 words and be able to construct at least one sentence for it to count. it has to be at least one of the following: writing/signing/speaking/whistling, it doesn't have to be multiple.

(and for people with "sampling bias" concerns, this is not supposed to represent society as a whole)

Poll:

It's super cool if you put the languages in tags

@aromantisk-fagforening

[agelessphotography]

Crowds of people in front of the Montgomery County Courthouse to demonstrate against police treatment of voter rights demonstrators, Montgomery, Alabama, Declan Haun, March 17, 1965

[vdelta]

will say i think it's a fucking excellent idea on mojang's part to have an update focusing on breathing new life into existing parts of the game. new sign and bookshelf variants, new uses for bamboo and cactus, an excuse to hunt down desert villages.. looking forward to what else they decide to tackle this time around

[chaos-potat]

DTIYS again?

I might do prizes for it, would anyone actually want to do it at all??

The yes are the same, I'd post a colored and uncolored drawing, I just want to know if anyone wants to color it, this is more to ask if anyone can/want to do this

[froggyrights2]

Working at a polling station all day today and my fellow colleagues are 4 old men 2 that are retired but very right wing and 2 that are cops helpppp me

[usps-first-class]

We did our best guys, see you all in the losers bracket!

[lunastyrs]

Yuu’s childhood pet came with them as their familiar.

[godsspecialestlittleguyskirmish]

When do submissions close? And will there be preliminaries for characters with only one nomination, or will only characters with many nominations get in? Thank you and I'm so excited for the tournament!

In two days! And I'm not sure about preliminaries, it depends on how many are left after I've taken out the ones that aren't eligible

[newyorkkiss]

458 of these are spoon posts should i just start queuing these bc i feel like i'm never gonna manage to post them all myself

[nelsonakis]

[zombolouge]

been collaborating on some crackfic lately and I gotta say, nothing restores the creative juices in the soul quite like teaming up with a bunch of fucking geniuses, competing to write the most insane bullshit we can imagine. We are committing to every cursed bit conceivable. Everyone should do this it's incredible.

[ragnarokproofing]

THIS IS THE THIRD TIME MY FAVORITE POETRY SUBMISSION OF THE WEEK HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN THE DAY BEFORE WE VOTE ON IT.

[deadpresidents]

"What emerged in two interviews with Trump, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 millions people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women's pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn't carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America's founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn't paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen."

-- "How Far Would He Go", TIME Magazine's interviews with Donald Trump, April 30, 2024.

I know we're saturated in coverage of Trump and it's easy (and probably better for our mental health) to usually ignore most of the articles when we see them, especially since he's so full of shit and infuriating. But it's also important to recognize that he is going to be the Republican nominee for President and he could absolutely be elected in November, and if you thought his first term was scary and dangerous, you need to understand that in a second term he's going to have people around him that are better prepared and VERY willing to do the crazy shit that he wants to do to this country. They aren't even hiding the fact that they are seeking vengeance against political opponents whom they feel have wronged them, and are ready to fundamentally dismantle the democratic foundations that are barely holding this country together after nearly 250 years.

Just look at what Trump says about the people who he incited to attack the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election and halt the peaceful transfer of power that has happened every four years since 1789:

"Trump has sought to recast an insurrectionist riot as an act of patriotism. 'I call them the J-6 patriots,' he say. When I ask whether he would consider pardoning every one of them, he says, 'Yes, absolutely.' As Trump faces dozens of felony charges, including for election interference, conspiracy to defraud the United States, willful retention of national-security secrets, and falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments, he has tried to turn legal peril into a badge of honor."

Oh, and please note that Trump -- a former President of the United States and possible future President of the United States -- said on the record in these interviews with TIME: "There is a definite antiwhite feeling in the country and that can't be allowed either." We are at a point where political leaders are outright saying that in this country again, and it's because of Donald Trump.

So, take the time to recognize that Trump is straight-up telling us the country we're going to be living in if he wins again in November. And understand that your vote matters -- and WHO you vote for matters -- because, as I've been saying for years now, ELECTIONS HAVE FUCKING CONSEQUENCES.

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[glittergroovy]

(if the full rent is $2000/month but you split that with a roommate, vote $1000. This is just about what you pay)

[xvermingirlx]

Torah portion summed up this week:

Korah holds some pretty valid arguments??? However framed poorly and wants power

Big hole eats up Korah, Dalthan, and Abiram yum yum.

the 250 toasty bois.

a big ass plague woah.

Aaron has a lot on his shoulders now, like big time lmao.

It was a pretty action packed Torah portion this week woah.