Same here. Experience tells me that corporate for profit organizations tend to focus more on self-image.
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- Tue Apr 19, 2022 7:42 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 2107
- Views: 15094521
Re: Venting thread
- Tue Apr 12, 2022 5:09 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1418
- Views: 660194
Re: Elections in various countries
Macron apparently only won decisively among old people. Kind of, but that's because Mélenchon won among young people. Here's the breakdown: 18-24: Mélenchon 34%, Macron 25%, Le Pen 17% 25-34: Mélenchon 31 , Macron 22, Le Pen 27 35-49: Le Pen 29, Macron 22 , Mélenchon 20 50-64: Le Pen 29, Macron 25 ...
- Mon Apr 11, 2022 4:59 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1418
- Views: 660194
Re: Elections in various countries
So it looks like most people on the left did try that tactic... It didn't work. Mélenchon got a very good score.. but the finalists are Le Pen and Macron just as expected. I'll vote for Macron, but I'll admit the prospect of yet again voting for a guy I despise just to keep the fascists out does no...
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:52 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Some Verdurian typos
- Replies: 98
- Views: 128142
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 6:46 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Some Verdurian typos
- Replies: 98
- Views: 128142
Re: Some Verdurian typos
(Dialects... oh man, why does anyone have dialects... just makes more work for linguists and conlinguists!) Because, unless all the speakers of a given language interact on a regular basis, speakers of languages are bound to create their own expressions, and that's not counting the general drift in...
- Thu Jan 30, 2020 10:45 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Language Telephone - TEAM 1 RESULTS AND TEAM 2 RESULTS!
- Replies: 195
- Views: 137239
- Sun Dec 22, 2019 12:17 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 767187
Re: Happy things thread!
The reviews of Cats are hilarious. Every year, it seems there's one inexplicably awful movie that all the critics decide to pour their creativity into reading to filth and this year it's the singing/dancing CGI furryfest. Even the ads for it venture into cannot unsee territory. I saw the preview wh...
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 9:46 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1418
- Views: 660194
Re: Elections in various countries
Canadian PM appointed a "Minister of Middle Class Prosperity".
I kid you not. It is real. I would be laughing if it weren't so sad a position.
I kid you not. It is real. I would be laughing if it weren't so sad a position.
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 9:37 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 2009
- Views: 1070284
Re: British Politics Guide
First, the effects of deregulation take time to appear. While Reaganomics and Thatcherism has been going on for nearly four decades now, their impact (impoverishment of a section of the population) took a full generation to appear in the radars. I haven't lived in Thatcher-era Britain, but from all...
- Sat Nov 30, 2019 6:30 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 2009
- Views: 1070284
Re: British Politics Guide
(speaking of Britannia Unchained) I've never understood how deregulation advocates can exist outside the United States. All they need to do is look at the arch-deregulators across the Atlantic to see that it isn't a good idea. It's as if they're watching someone die slowly of lung cancer, and advoc...
- Tue Nov 19, 2019 1:32 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 4119
- Views: 571512
Re: Random Thread
I usually treat a Twitter heart as a
"I want to positively rate the message so it gets favored by the Grand Tweet Algorithm" thing.
"I want to positively rate the message so it gets favored by the Grand Tweet Algorithm" thing.
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 6:10 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1418
- Views: 660194
Re: Elections in various countries
Do you expect rationality from a PM that has been more about PR than coherent policy?
- Fri Nov 08, 2019 5:17 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Language Telephone - TEAM 1 RESULTS AND TEAM 2 RESULTS!
- Replies: 195
- Views: 137239
- Thu Nov 07, 2019 4:14 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Language Telephone - TEAM 1 RESULTS AND TEAM 2 RESULTS!
- Replies: 195
- Views: 137239
Re: Language Telephone
Sorry to all, I have been delayed by... becoming sick as I received the text.
I got better, did it, sent it to Nerulant. It won't be as Evil as I thought it would be. The text didn't have much to give in terms of neologisms on which I could make people cringe.
I got better, did it, sent it to Nerulant. It won't be as Evil as I thought it would be. The text didn't have much to give in terms of neologisms on which I could make people cringe.
- Tue Oct 22, 2019 3:00 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1418
- Views: 660194
Re: Elections in various countries
Looks like over in Canada, Justin Trudeau got reelected, but without an outright majority. For someone who doesn't know that much about Canadian political traditions, it's interesting that once it became clear who would get how many seats, the CBC announced that there would be a Liberal minority go...
- Fri Oct 04, 2019 12:54 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Language Telephone - TEAM 1 RESULTS AND TEAM 2 RESULTS!
- Replies: 195
- Views: 137239
Re: Language Telephone
Gimme it.Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 6:17 am OK, I'll start contacting the people who have volunteered to do the last link. If you haven't volunteered previously, feel free to do so now.
- Fri Sep 27, 2019 9:34 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Language Telephone - TEAM 1 RESULTS AND TEAM 2 RESULTS!
- Replies: 195
- Views: 137239
Re: Language Telephone
I can't wait to get it and make Nerulent cry for mercy.
- Wed Sep 25, 2019 2:59 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: LE LEXIQUE DU CRÉOLE RÉUNIONNAIS D'ORIGINE MALGACHE
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16436
Re: LE LEXIQUE DU CRÉOLE RÉUNIONNAIS D'ORIGINE MALGACHE
I should probably read it.
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 5:42 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Language Telephone - TEAM 1 RESULTS AND TEAM 2 RESULTS!
- Replies: 195
- Views: 137239
Re: Language Telephone
I can translate from German into Catalan, Spanish, French, or Irish with confidence and a bunch of others (including Standard Chinese) if accuracy isn’t really an issue. It would be fun to have some nonstandard varieties. I could translate into Cajun French and out of Québécois, for instance. I cou...
- Wed Sep 11, 2019 2:59 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1418
- Views: 660194
Re: Elections in various countries
In the land of maple syrup, poutine, nanaimo bars and kraft dinner, 40 days of campaign will lead us to elect the next government that shall lead 35 million tatas for another four years (hopefully). So, is Western Alberta and Countryside Ontario pissed off enough of the selfiogenic J. Trudeau, leadi...