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how dare the item of clothing i developed a weird attachment to and have worn almost every single day since i bought it start to show signs of wear

grunklebongrip

When a fic doesn’t fit my head canons but it’s well-written

peniswakt-deactivated20210717

yeah no offense to confucius or anything but if i was about to embark on a journey of revenge i would simply not dig two graves

peniswakt-deactivated20210717

jesus christ, getting laid in your enemy's grave? that's some freak shit but honestly i kinda dig it

flagellant

well yeah you dig it thats how you make a grave

gwydionmisha

A feel like this is a conversation between Shakespeare's clowns, and I love that.

silly

goofy

I don't remember what you said but for the rest of my life I will remember the car window was rolled down when you said it.

nerdreamer

corporationsarepeople

And in case you might be inclined to feel bad for the small-business-owning dealer, don’t. Tesla owns all of its dealerships.

antarees-8

castling in chess, interchanging the positions of the king and a rook that puts your king in a more protected place at the side of the board

galedekarios

A LOST POEM Translated from Qunlat

Slow blink, seems to say... I'm going to eat you, little fish! Purr, soft soothing friend.

derinthescarletpescatarian

We can do it. We can make both countries so much worse.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Hang on a minute. I see a US state labelled LA, which I assumed was Los Angeles, but there is also a city on the coast labelled Los Angeles. So what is the LA state? (I don't know US abbreviations).

hearth-fucker

Louisiana, the state New Orleans is in. Swamps and good food and jazz and vampires

derinthescarletpescatarian

All this time when people talk about "living in LA" or "going to LA" I just assumed they meant Los Angeles

jessica-problems

people almost never call Lousiana "LA" except when addressing mail or filling out tax forms. if someone says they moved to LA, they *definitely* mean Los Angeles

derinthescarletpescatarian

BUT WHY WOULD

Okay I'm gonna bow out now while I'm still at Minimum Confusion. This is why sensible countries have only eight states and territories. Keeps the number of names down.

beatrice-otter

Every state has a two-letter abbreviation that is used solely for postal codes and filling out forms. Nobody ever says them out loud. You don't say "I'm from MN," you say "I'm from Minnesota." They're only used to make writing things down faster. People started abbreviating state names on the addresses of their letters in the early 19th Century. The Post Office tried to prevent it and require people to write the full state name out, eventually they gave up and standardized it with the two-letter abbreviations we use today. (I think we had to learn them in elementary school? Not memorize all of them, but it was part of learning about writing letters.)

For the most part, state codes are pretty intuitive (because they came from what people were already doing). So a state with two words in the name gets the first letter of each word--North Dakota is ND, West Virginia is WV, New York is NY. For states with one word, the second letter is usually either the second letter of the name (Oregon is OR, Alabama is AL), or the most important sound in the middle of the word. So Kansas is KS, Minnesota is MN, Louisianna is LA.

I have no idea why Los Angeles is the only city in the US that regularly gets abbreviated to its initials. We don't do it with other two-word cities, not even other two-word cities where the name comes from Spanish. (San Diego is never SD, for example.) Town and city names are usually not abbreviated, in either speech or writing. LA (the city) is just weird.

However, it's not something that is generally very confusing. When someone says LA, they always mean the city, because the state abbreviations are only used for writing. And even in writing, it's usually pretty easy to tell when they mean the state because 99% of the time, you're either writing out an address on a letter, or filling in a form with a box for "State", or using a drop-down box on a web page to select the correct state.

Also, to add to the things that confuse non-Americans but are perfectly comprehensible to US people, Washington the state and Washington DC are completely separate places on opposite sides of the country. Washington DC is the only place in the continental US that is not part of a state, it's part of the District of Columbia (that's what DC stands for) and is purposefully not part of a state so that no state could claim the political clout of having the capital city be part of it. In postal abbreviations, Washington DC is DC, and Washington the state is WA. Washington DC is the exception to "nobody ever says postal codes aloud" and gets referred to as DC all the time, and it is, in fact, far more common to call it DC than Washington. If you just say Washington, you usually mean the state. If you mean the nation's capital, you usually either say Washington DC or just DC.

mikkeneko

For the most part, state codes are pretty intuitive

Totally intuitive and that's why Maine and Maryland both start with Ma and get abbreviated to ME and MD respectively instead of MA, which is Massachusetts. Minnesota, and Mississippi both start with Mi and that's why they're abbreviated to MN and MS, and not to MI, which is Michigan. Montana starts with Mo and that's why it's abbreviated to MT, and not to MO, which is Missouri.

readingbeneaththestars

I think the problem here is just that there’s too many states that start with M. We should rename some of them.

And I mean Maryland is named after a Queen of Britain whose birth name was considered too foreign so she was called Mary even though she preferred her given name, no one’s even sure where Maine got its name and one of the possibilities is that it’s from mainland, and Montana just means mountainous so I feel like we’ve got some good candidates for renaming. The rest of the M states actually have good names but even just getting rid of those three would do a lot. I actually didn’t realize I had opinions on state names before sseing this post but apparently I do.

mikkeneko

Man I didn't realize I had opinions about reassigning those postal codes but apparently I also do

Guiding principles:

The state that has the highest incidence of a letter in their name ought to get that letter

The state that has the only incidence of a letter ought to use that letter.

So:

Mississippi and Massachusetts are tied with four incidences of 'S' apiece. However, Mississippi also has the highest incidence of 'I' of any state. Therefore, Mississippi becomes MI and Massachusetts becomes MS.

Maryland is the only state in this group that uses Y and Michigan is the only state in this group that uses G, so Maryland becomes MY and Michigan becomes MG.

This leaves us with Maine, Minnesota, Montana and Missouri. Minnesota has the most incidences of 'N' so it gets to keep MN. 'Maine' ends with an E, so I guess it can stay as ME. 'O' is still unused, so Montana can get MO.

Missouri sadly cannot get either MS, MI or MO, but MR is still available, so Missouri gets MR.

loycos

this season we got to see a whole new side to caitlyn's fighting: close counters. something that she used to be so, SO terrible at.

This season, not only did we see her physically fighting twice, but she also went against the 2 most badass fucking terrifying butches on the show: Sevika and Ambessa. and in both times, she WON.

how does that make any sense? is she now an amazing crazy brawler who can kick anyone's ass??? hardly. of course there are factors at play that helped her achieve this other than raw strength (the hextech malfunction and mel's magic, respectively). but just how the hell did she even hold on her own in physical fights with these beasts of women without them literally flattening her in less that 5 seconds?

that's where a whole side of Caitlyn that i don't see discussed often comes in: respect. or at least, lack thereof. Caitlyn is one of the least respected characters in the show, by other characters. i've addressed it in a post before with Jinx, who doesn't want to acknowledge Caitlyn as a human, for many reasons, but it can definitely come across as disrespect. we saw it with Salo on 2 different occasions. Singed did not give a fuck about Caitlyn's threats and basically called her an impatient baby. she is referred to as a "child" or a "girl" more than fucking Isha. if we go back to season 1, seems like her own parents struggled seeing her as an adult that can make her own choices. her coworkers make fun of her dedication. Marcus thought she was an entitled brat. when they first met, VI didn't respect Caitlyn at ALL.

the 3 characters who know Caitlyn and respect her are: Vi, Jayce, and Mel. that's so fucking sad. Caitlyn wants to be acknowledged for who she is and her capabilities, yet she has to fight harder for it than anyone else around, despite her privilege. or maybe because of it. notice how it's something Maddie preys on: "Piltover looks up to you. i look up to you". she knows Caitlyn desperately wants be taken seriously.

back to fighting: if you notice, Sevika and Ambessa are doing the exact same thing here.

during their fight, Sevika looked like she was mostly just pushing Caitlyn around, trying to hold her off, while Cailtyn was fighting for her life.

we know how ruthless Sevika can be when she actually puts effort into fighting, but in this case it looks like she was playing with her food for just a little too long, and then the hextech weapons started freaking out. and that cost her the fight.

with Ambessa it's even clearer. yes, in a way she sees Caitlyn almost like a surrogate daughter, but does she? notice how she calls Mel by her name. she addresses Caitlyn as "child", and she's not even HER child. it's belittling. Ambessa mostly tries to mold her, and she clearly did not expect Caitlyn to be intelligent enough to pick up on it.

the whole fight in episode 9. Ambessa letting the mole she planted in Caitlyn's bed to execute her? not even doing it herself? disrespect. mocking her for being desperate? disrespect.

when they actually fight, Ambessa shows the exact same symptoms Sevika did. maybe its a Noxian ritual or something, to torture your victim before u publicly execute them, but in certain points in the fight she couldve had Caitlyn killed and just chose not to. it's especially noticeable after she gauges Caitlyn's eye, and Caitlyn rests defenseless on the floor, bleeding on 2 fronts. what does Ambessa say? "you fought well, child." if that's not the disrespect of the century i don't know what is. and AGAIN, this cost Ambessa the fight. and her life, in this case.

the saddest part of it all is that Caitlyn is the character that shows respect the most, to almost everyone she meets. regardless of how they treat her.