I just cancelled my gas station rewards program because they moved everything to a mandatory app. I will not use your app.

“Women are the best you’ll ever be able to get a little bit of.”

If there were no surface tension there would almost definitely be no wicking action either. If it didn’t evaporate super quickly, water without surface tension would probably be a giant pain in the ass to clean up.

Same. Sauce ruins good fries.

I always just go to America’s Best. $80 for an eye exam and two pairs of glasses is hard to beat.

Thanks for taking the time to write such an informed and in-depth comment!

Well we know where that got Saruman, Pippin, and Denethor.

Instead he should be paying higher taxes so the city/state can ~have more money to build a bigger and stronger social safety net~ funnel more money to the organized crime syndicates well known to operate at all levels of Gotham’s government.

That looks much more like ‘so’ ソ than ‘n’ ン

Excellent post in general, but it should be noted that the meaning of “wine-dark sea” is still very much disputed.

They need to hurry up and tow that windmill outside of the environment.

“Does anyone else… (have trouble finishing video games/use their toenail clippings to add texture to a pot of chili/etc.)?”

I’m an older millennial and I have no idea who Cypress Hill is.

Always love Veritasium

It’s only permanent until they decide that it isn’t.

Buddhism in a nutshell

“Permanently”

You wouldn’t download a culture…

I can only speak for his linguistic works, but it’s odd how much clearer and more straightforward his earlier works are than his later ones. Syntactic structures and Aspects of a Theory of Syntax are easy enough that I’d even recommend them to Introduction to Syntax students, but starting with Lectures on Government and Binding things get increasingly obtuse to the point that I’d always recommend reading “translations” of his later works rather than the works themselves.

Edit for full transparency, since this comment is getting upvoted while Chomsky is getting blasted in the comments here: Don’t get me wrong, all of Chomsky’s linguistic work is incredibly brilliant. He single-handedly brought about a complete paradigm shift in the field of linguistics. G&B with all of the bells and whistles added by other researchers in the 80s and 90s is still the closest we’ve come to an actual explanatory theory of syntax, and X-bar theory is probably the single most elegant, ingenious innovation in the history of linguistics.

And that’s just syntax. I haven’t even mentioned how he and Morris Halle revolutionized phonology a few years later with The Sound Pattern of English, or how he also revolutionized grammar theory with the idea of context-free and context-dependent grammars the year before publishing Syntactic Structures, and all of this somehow still understates the enormous import of Chomsky’s linguistic work.

If anyone has any questions about Chomsky’s linguistic work, feel free to ask, and I’ll respond as best I can.