Thanks. There’s nothing you can do for it. I have a few blogs at Wordpress.com too, but this refusal to accept cookie choices is new.

I’ll try a different browser when I have a laptop in front of me.

Even with an EU VPN exit point, Automattic won’t accept my cookie settings. Can’t see the site

I find more and more that I have to check the source to be sure which are Onion articles and which are real headlines. Sadly, the truly outrageous ones tend to be real these days.

What about the AI generated translation?

Or worse, renting or “licensing” weapons.

The problem is that its leaders only seem to understand a language that most sane people are unwilling to speak.

Well then all they have to do is quit starting them. Easy peasy.

Am I the only one who thinks Putin would be stupid not to agree? All he has to do is wait long enough to force Ukrainian elections, then reinvade. Problem solved for him.

While I wholeheartedly support their idea, one must also note the irony of coordinating action via Facebook.

He, of course, will have no problem if China is invited to the table. Especially if he can figure out how to tank any peace deal to protect Beijing’s weapons sales and economic benefits from supporting Russia.

It’s mind boggling that Washington has tried to cut Ukraine out of discussions about their own country. Although I’m sure Trump envisions a chain of golf courses and resorts across Donetsk and Luhansk

Hard to do when our administrations have also drunk the job-certificate koolaid. They forcibly overload our classes with twice as many students as we can effectively teach. Essays are just about the only tools we have.

Maybe the AI was trained on a Pornhub-heavy dataset?

I have never been more ashamed of the US. And I lived through the Cheney Administration

I think Welsh also has the lower teeth-upper lip variant. I think it’s phonemic and not an allophone of /f/, but I’m not certain.

As for why, these seem like good hypotheses. I sure don’t know :)

“Have a beer” was standard advice from upperclassmen when I was a foreign language major in college. Of course, the drinking age then was 19 and only loosely enforced, so we could go to a bar. But it was the best advice for beginners to get over their nerves.

It’s been a few years since Intro to Phonetics, but aren’t labiodentals produceable with either upper teeth-lower lip, as seems the case in this study, or with lower teeth-upper lip, as would be the case in edge-to-edge alignment?

Diet affecting evolution and thus language seems plausible, but this doesn’t seem a strong argument.

Which contradicts no part of what I said. Critical thinking. It works.

Agreed on all counts

Honestly, if any Truth code were pushed into Mastodon, I’d probably stop using it

Misleading headline. According to the article, Norway has done no such thing. Norwegian businesses have done no such thing. However Turkey, a NATO member and EU applicant, continues to facilitate Russian evasion of international sanctions.