Nico Baier

Nico Baier

@nicobaier.com

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Hey #linguistics peeps are there languages with a mass/count distinction in "more" vs "less/fewer"? English: (1a) There's less/*fewer water in the cup now (1b) There's more water in the cup now (2a) There's ?less/fewer people here now (2b) There's more people here now

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Take a look at the CNN sourcing and fact-checking on their Swalwell article. Look at how many extra people they contacted in order to corroborate claims. They viewed screenshots, called parents/husbands/friends/colleagues. They viewed TV footage and interviews, & more. Two things worth pointing out:

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"Democrats have standards about abuse allegations and Republicans don't" shouldn't be an argument for Democrats getting rid of standards about abuse allegations. Does this really need to be said? Stop trying to make Al Franken a thing again, too. No thanks. 😬

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I knew about the 1969 moon landing. And knew that news of the My Lai massacre came out in '69. But I had those events in separate boxes. Occurs to me now that it must have been disorienting to feel proud of (one aspect of) your country, while also deeply shamed by its crimes.

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Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

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“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

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A friend described doing an exercise w/ a group of students from around the world, asking them to write down the best & worst thing about a bunch of different countries. Answers varied a lot for all countries except for one: every single person said the best thing about the USA is NASA.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com

The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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This makes my night. Some of the best (and most ridiculous) work I ever did is in that repo and now it’s not lost to time.

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4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

latimes.com4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical careIn 2023, a Mexican girl, 4, was allowed U.S. entry for lifesaving medical care. She and her parents, who live in Bakersfield, have been told they must leave.

Weird that his own state department who issued the visas doesn't know who they issued the visas to. Feel like they could start there.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We're not looking to make sneakers and t-shirts. We want to make military equipment, we want to make big things. We want to do the AI things with the computers. But the textile -- you know, I'm not looking to make t-shirts, to be honest. I'm not looking to make socks."

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I am sincerely moved by Sen. Van Hollen. Sometimes Members of Congress do stuff that is brave. I didn’t say this while he was there, but it kind of reminded me of Rep. Leo Ryan in 1978. We need more MOCs to show the same spine for their constituents. We do NOT accept our neighbors being disappeared

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sometimes you just want to embed a val town user's profile pic, and in 24 lines of code, now you can! <img src="https://pic.val.run/stevekrouse" />

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This Paul Weiss capitulation is the most disgraceful action by a major law firm in my lifetime, so appalling that I couldn’t believe it at first. Any lawyers at that firm—partners or associates—who don’t promptly resign will defile their moral and professional reputations beyond repair.

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They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Homan: "We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think. I don't care what the left thinks. We're coming."

I know I could answer this on my own but are there any languages with systematic initial devoicing a la German final devoicing? #linguistics #phonology