#I Stand With Puerto Rico

[elliscraddock]

Here's my #8thRocksShuffle #8thRocks dance video w/#SalsaRomantica #Salsa song called #PuertoRico by the late #FrankieRuiz(rest in power).

(w/heavy rain sound effects/high tone version). I don't own this song but enjoy. This tap dance video is pay tribute to the people from Puerto Rico. #IStandWithPuertoRico #ILovePuertoRico #ISupportPuertoRico #PuertoRican #NoRacism #SalsaDance #SalsaSong #SalsaMusic ✊🏿🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷✊🏿

[troythecatfish]

[stormiclown]

GENOCIDE/WAR IS STUPID

[tinylongwing]

Dale Redmayne in the process of ruining someone's day

[vileacademyofficial]

what the FUCK do you have against Lin Manuel FUCKING Miranda?

excluding the antiblackness and racism of hamilton and its fanbase? he publicly supported an “economic stability” bill that closed 200+ public puerto rican schools, implemented devestating labor ‘reforms’ that have gutted puerto rican workers’ access to sick days and vacation time, cut funding to the university of puerto rico, and began the privatization of puerto rico’s electrical authority.

so yeah no i don't like the guy lmao

[11oh1]

[erasedvoice]

from the river to the sea 🍉

for palstine, congo, sudan, tigray, for the puerto ricans, hawaiians, and native americans

🇵🇸🇸🇩🇵🇷🇨🇩

[whim513]

been doing some reading about puerto rico and i need to beat Christopher Columbus to death with a metal pipe IMMEDIATELY

[autistickfigure]

i'm never going to have this right. SIGH. ANYWAY i kept trying to make a post saying i wanted BOB to be a puerto rican who wanted to be american. i have trouble wording this. I still do WELL ITS OK whatever. You could be getting it right now ..!

[elliscraddock]

Here's my #8thRocksShuffle #8thRocks dance video w/#SalsaRomantica #Salsa song called #PuertoRico by the late #FrankieRuiz(rest in power)(w/heavy rain sound effects/high tone version) on YouTube to pay tribute to the people from Puerto Rico. Also click the like, share, subscribe, & hit a notification button on my YouTube channel. #IStandWithPuertoRico #ILovePuertoRico #ISupportPuertoRico #PuertoRican #NoRacism #SalsaDance #SalsaSong #SalsaMusic ✊🏿🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷✊🏿

[houseofcrying]

It’s such a scary time to be alive cause what do you mean that i have to be worried about a president that doesn’t care about human rights and a governor that cares more about being accepted by the US than about our own island and the people. I just hate and find it so frustrating how both care more about money and power and the rest of us just get affected by all the horrible decisions they make.

[flore-the-poet]

Never Forget Palestine

I know that this is a long, serious, and sudden post to make after a couple of months of null activity. I normally keep my explicit convictions out of social media circles, but the emotions that the ongoing genocide in occupied Palestine has brewed within me is something that I can't keep to myself any longer. As a person who lives in the world's oldest colony, I feel the urgency to express my unshakable and absolute support for the Palestinian people under occupation and their wider diaspora.

As a Puerto Rican, I can somewhat understand the violence that colonialism wreaks upon native peoples. I know what economic violence looks like. I know first hand the pain and dread that displacement brings, the sacrifices that the diaspora undertakes every day, and I've witnessed gentrification efforts in Puerto Rico accelerate astronomically. I know how colonialism erases cultures and warps senses of identity; Americanization and globalization have my culture on a chokehold and I often find myself asking who am I, for I have my own flag, but by law I am a US citizen. And although I was born in the new millennium, my grandparents and parents knew what political and military violence is and have done their due diligence in making me remember the ostracized, the murdered, and disappeared.

As a Puerto Rican, I feel an unshakable sense of gross complicity in the ongoing genocide. I feel this way because our leaders in San Juan and in Washington DC actively support and fund the IDF's genocidal war machine. I feel this way because many of the weapons and munitions that currently maim, kill, and destroy the very livelihood of the Palestinian people were developed and tested in the shores of the municipal island of Vieques, which is located some twenty-odd kilometers from our eastern coast. I feel this way because I read repost after repost of shellshocked Palestinians desperately calling for aid, humanization, and solidarity by showcasing the bodies of their murdered to the world from the comfort of a standing home and relative access to basic resources, and overall experiencing a normal way of life. I feel this way, because the active targeting of journalists and activists, community leaders, and scholars by IDF troops echo the arrests, unfair trails, imprisonment, torture, murder, and disappearance of our leaders orchestrated by evil men like Blanton Winship and Edgar Hoover. To whoever reads this, please do not forget Palestine. When Puerto Rican Revolutionaries revolted against US colonial rule in 1950, the UN ignored our struggle for independence and looked the other way as US Navy planes bombed the Jayuya to ruins and National Guardsmen arrested and murdered armed revolutionaries and civilians alike all around Puerto Rico. The Gaza Genocide is beyond everything my fellow countrymen have ever faced. Please, for your humanity, do not turn your backs on Palestine just as the world did to us.

[umberandmochaagate]

I ain't gonna hold you bro

Thinking that "vote blue no matter who" is gonna hold as strongly is actually buck wild

[tanadrin]

medieval monks and accountants start using Italian millione ("one thousand" + augmentative suffix) to mean 10^6 by the 1200s; this spreads to other languages

Jehan Adam coins bymillion and trimillion to mean 10^12 and 10^18 in 1475

Nicolas Chuquet extends this scale up to nonyllion (10^54), with every step being another six orders of magnitude (million, byllion, tryllion, quadrillion, quyllion, sixlion, septyllion, ottylion, nonyllion) in 1484. Note that in this period, it was common to put the digit separator every six digits instead of every three.

Guillaume Budé refers to 10^9 as milliart in 1516, in a Latin text

But in 1549, Jacques Pelletier du Mans uses milliard to mean 10^12, citing Budé as a source

In the 1600s, people start putting digit separators every three digits. But some scientists and mathematicians define the numerical scale according to how digits are grouped, rather than the actual order of magnitude: thus, one billion becomes 10^9, one trillion becomes 10^12, etc, creating the short scale.

"Milliard" is eventually added to the long scale, meaning 10^9 (in keeping with Budé's usage); the first published example is from 1676

By 1729, the short-scale meaning of "billion" (10^9) has already crept into American usage

This is in keeping with French usage at the time: in 1762, the Académie Française dictionary cites billion as meaning 10^9.

By the early 19th century, France has almost completely converted to the short scale, and U.S. usage follows France; the long scale is referred to in some sources as "obsolete." But Britain is still using the long scale (and I assume Germany and most other European countries)

Over the course of the 20th century, the long scale begins to become more influential in France, presumably due to the influence of continental usage; while the short scale becomes more influential in Britain, presumably due to the influence of American English. Notably the SI system very specifically uses unique prefixes that are the same across languages, to prevent confusion!

In 1961, the French Government confirms that they're going to officially use the long scale from now on; in 1974, Britain officially switches over to the short scale, and many other English-speaking countries follow.

In 1975, the terms "short scale" and "long scale" are actually coined, by mathematician Geneviève Guitel.

One reason large number names could be so unstable for so long is, of course, that outside specialized usage they are rare, and were even more rare before modern science and large modern monetary amounts became commonplace points of discussion. Wikipedia says "milliard" wasn't common in German until 1923, when bank notes had to be overstamped during Weimar-era hyperinflation.

As it currently stands, English, Indonesian, Hebrew, Russian, Turkish, and most varieties of Arabic use the short scale; continental Europe and most varieties of Spanish outside Europe use the long scale. A few countries use both, usually in different languages, like South African English (short scale) and Afrikaans (long scale) or Canadian English (short scale) and Canadian French (long scale) . Puerto Rico uses the short scale in economic and technical usage, but the long scale in publications aimed at export.

Notably some languages use neither, having their own names for large numbers--South Asian languages have the Indian numbering system, and Bhutan, Cambodia, and various East Asian languages also have their own numbering systems. Greek, exceptionally, uses a native calque of the short scale rather than a borrowing.

[heartcountry]

also in case it wasn’t clear i stand in solidarity with all oppressed, colonized, and marginalized groups throughout the world. whether it be syria, palestine, sudan, puerto rico, hawaii, ethiopia, the global black liberation movement, and so many more. we’re not free until we’re all free.