The distance from Atlanta to LA is about the same as the distance between Paris and Beirut. There is somewhat less linguistic diversity on the Altanta/LA route than the Paris/Beirut route (because of the genocide).
There’s actually significantly more but you’d have to stop ignoring indigenous languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas#/media/File:Langs_N.Amer.png whereas from Paris to Beirut it’s Indo-European over Turkic to Semitic, that’s all (assuming you manage to avoid Hungary, that’s Uralic, just like Finns, Sami and and Estonians. Then there’s the Basques, but that’s really it. Yes Albanian is Indo-European even if it’s hardly recognisable).
Of those languages, the population is very small and centralized to the point of being not noteworthy as a factor in language learning. This is not to mention that the map you’ve cited was a pre-contact linguistic graph, and unfortunately many of those languages have become extinct with their unique aspects lost forever to humanity. Compared to Europe, the states have become a desert of language with few natural language learning opportunities outside of English and Spanish
Exactly. I’m an atheist and electronics geek, but I am torn between Radio Shack and Jesus. I bet Jesus could effectively organize a world-wide general strike that completely overthrows capitalism and replaces it with a dictatorship of the proletariat so fast it would make Jeff Bezos’ head spin and pop off.
As long as I am fantasizing, I’ll bet if Radio Shack came back, they would start selling Framework laptops to ordinary consumers and kick-start a market of DIY mobile computing platforms from laptops to cell phones to TV sets to home rack-mount servers running fediverse services all built with standardized parts and overthrow the consumerist electronic appliance market.
You might be surprised. Half of us were either born overseas or had at least one parent born overseas. A little under a third of us have English as our second language. That doesn’t mean that two thirds of us only speak English - only that English is our ‘home’ language.
I know there’s a lot of multiculuralism in the USA also, but I don’t know whether those percentages compare.
Just because of this I have got in the habit of holding phone 45 angles when I open it, and this really puts me in weird situations in morning around people
Nah dude, when I’m in that position I take it as my duty to be an advocate for metal.
There’s so many genres of metal that I can almost always find something they like. Maybe they won’t like Fear Factory, but maybe they’ll like Nightwish or Amaranth or Alestorm. We can find out together!
I kinda don’t love the Burt/Dino albums (Mechanize aside)… Christian and Raymond evened out the music. That being said Archetype had 5 great songs and just petered off and Misery Threat is painful.
I’d love to hear all four actually collaborate again but that ship sailed. Now FF is just Divine Heresy.
<span style="color:#323232;">~/storage/card $ ls -Nd1v Music?*
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music out of directory
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 1 Mk1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 1 Mk2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 1 Mk3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 1 Mk4 S1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 1 Mk4 S2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 1 Mk4 S3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 4 C
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 4 M
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 5
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 6
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 7
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 8
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 9
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 10
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 11
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 12 F+M
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 12 O
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Music type 13
</span>
It handles ambiguity too. Want to say something lasts for a period of 1 month without needing to bother checking how many days are in the current and next month? P1M. Done. Want to be more explicit and say 30 days? P30D. Want to say it in hours? Add the T separator: PT720H.
I used this kind of notation all the time when exporting logged historical data from SCADA systems into a file whose name I wanted to quickly communicate the start of a log and how long it ran:
20230701T0000-07–P30D…v101_pressure.csv
(“–” is the ISO-8601 (2004) recommended substitute for “/” in file names)
If anyone is interested, I made this Bash script to give me uptime but expressed as an ISO 8601 time period.
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