Quito tried the forever spring plan, but oil companies are trying to get rid of it

Fine, since you insist, you can live in Richardson.

Fun fact: Richardson doesn’t use garbage cans, you’re expected to just put the bags in the street when it’s collection day

Granted. You now live in Texas

Incidentally, House Republicans (and even Senators by Dem standards) have one of those right now…

Romanization of long vowels in Japanese is quite frustrating

which is often shortened to ossan

TIL.

Interesting that there’s a similar concept in Finnish and other languages.

Sports headlines are way better if you don’t know sports exists

It was a typo. He meant to say it was all according to kagaku :P

Nevertheless, their point about not translating is still often correct.

For instance, IIRC you can call middle aged adult men “uncle” even if they aren’t actually your uncle. I believe Chinese does this too.

Texas does not actually have a clause to secede, and the Supreme Court settled the case in Texas v. White (1869) that Texas, or other states, do not have the right to secede (and that furthermore, despite the withdrawals of their Congress members, the states never seceded in the first place).

The actual clause that Texas has in its annexation resolution is this clause granting Texas the ability to create up to four more states out of its land:

Third. New States, of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the federal constitution.

This is a mainly historical movement called Texas divisionism and there aren’t any serious advocates of splitting Texas into any other states today as far as I know.

Yeah, but I think “compulsory sexuality” has a particular way of emphasizing that asexual people aren’t the only ones being pushed in this way

That’s probably partly why they do it.

In this instance though, if the original author had just wanted to say bad, they would have put 悪いwarui. やばいyabai is colloquial/slang and has some different meanings:

The feds can’t allow the masses to think that top American plutocrat Elon Musk literally wants to mind control his population

There’s a book that calls this “compulsory sexuality”

Which is even more ridiculous, because if anything, that would make you even more repulsed than you already were

We should introduce them to Kim’s Basilisk.

It’s the same concept except the Basilisk will want you to have built global communism.

Given the powers of Juche necromancy, it’s without question that it will in fact be you brought back to life.

It does mean the same thing as the English word nova though:

https://dle.rae.es/nova