Maybe she's a religious studies expert who knows that Ostara is a whole cloth invention of a 19th century German man and that while the English name of Easter is probably derived from a little understood Pagan Goddess other languages use derivatives of Pascha but she didn't want to make a whole deal of it

Literally no one gives a shit about Liz Cheney

For some reason Democratic leadership seems to

Those were decisions to change the specific names of specific places, not a decision to handle country names in the general way OP was describing.

why did they decide

Nobody sat down and made a decision to handle country names the way we do. It organically happened the way it did for no particular reason other than it works well enough.

why don’t we change everything back to how the countries’ place names are pronounced by their citizens out of respect

Nobody cares enough to undertake this. I don't particularly care that people call the US by different names in their languages. People in Turkey aren't asking us to pronounce their country's name the same way they do. Most people are happy to apply the inverse golden rule on this, i.e., I don't pronounce your country's name the way you do, so I'm not going to expect you to pronounce my country's name the way I do.

Would it make things harder or would it allow us to grow?

Yes, but I think it would be a lot of work for not much growth. You don't learn a lot about a place by just pronouncing its name differently.

I'm not super familiar with DrRacket (when last I used it it was DrScheme, which should tell you how old I am). I downloaded it off flathub, DDG'd ta-solver-starter.rkt, ran it, and here's what I saw:

Not sure what to tell you!

I do think there will have to be some cutting back, but it provides capitalists with the ability to discipline labor and absolve themselves (I would never do such a thing, it was the AI what did it!) which might they might consider worth the expense.

Al Franken is accused of more than just posing for a crass joke picture:

In the days that followed, seven additional women came forward with allegations of inappropriate behavior during photo ops. Lindsay Menz accused Franken of touching her clothed "upper" buttocks while they posed for a photo at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010. Two anonymous women made similar complaints related to events during political events. Franken apologized, saying, "I've met tens of thousands of people and taken thousands of photographs, often in crowded and chaotic situations. I'm a warm person; I hug people. I've learned from recent stories that in some of those encounters, I crossed a line for some women—and I know that any number is too many." Another anonymous woman said that after she was a guest on Franken's radio show in 2006, Franken leaned in toward her face during a handshake and gave her "a wet, open-mouthed kiss" on the cheek when she turned her face aside. The same day, Stephanie Kemplin, an army veteran, told CNN that Franken held the side of her breast for 5 to 10 seconds "and never moved his hand" while posing for a photograph with her during a 2003 USO tour in Iraq.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Franken#Sexual_misconduct_allegations

Makes me think of the DARE pencils that said "It's not cool to do drugs" which, as they were sharpened, would eventually say "cool to do drugs" and then "do drugs".

It's very funny to take this tack when you are basically claiming to be the smartest person in the country, the only one to see the plain truth of the situation

I can't think of Reagan's shooter's name, either. That isn't proof it was staged.

Love that straight up QAnon level shit is getting the majority of upvotes here. Good sign, the future is bright

I mean, they are doing their job. It's just that their job is to keep the left down, not to win.

Do try to be healthy. Eat nutrient dense foods. Be active and exercise. Try to reduce stress and work on healthy coping mechanisms. This last part includes not feeling bad about your body, and not feeling bad that you can't do a thing that 95% of people can't do.

[Edit: And yes, learn from others. Don't exclude learning from the people who fall into the 95%.]

I'm not saying that the 2% who succeed don't matter, I'm just saying that the 98% matter just as much.

Also, if you want people to lose weight, it's wild to ignore the fact that while 5% manage to keep weight off, 60% gain weight.

From https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/ :

Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolism—a body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.

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A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people. Habits, no matter your size, are what really matter. Dozens of indicators, from vegetable consumption to regular exercise to grip strength, provide a better snapshot of someone’s health than looking at her from across a room.

The responses you get here will be subject to survivorship bias,

a form of sampling bias that can lead to overly optimistic beliefs because multiple failures are overlooked, ... [It can] lead to the false belief that the successes in a group have some special property, rather than just coincidence

This is a very econ 101 take. A similar argument is that if you increase the minimum wage, people will per se lose their jobs because of supply and demand curves. But the empirical evidence doesn't support that. I don't think we know for sure why, but increasing the minimum wage has second order effects that seem to counteract this. Similarly, it's true that if you print money, you increase the supply of money which according to supply and demand means the money will be worth less. Now I don't think we have as clear empirical evidence that shows this isn't true, but we do print money all the time. I mean, that's how government works; congress passes a bill, and the federal reserve supplies ("prints") the money to fund it. There's not some bank account somewhere that has to have the money and if it doesn't we have an overdraft situation. But, if the bill is printing money to support farmers and provides an increase in the food supply, the cost of food relative to the dollar could go down. Now maybe the cost of other things goes up, but the point is that it's much more complex than "government print money, inflation go up."

The argument I'm making here is based on Modern Monetary Theory (maybe I'm doing a bad job of representing it or understanding it), which you should definitely check out if you haven't.

Before the cuts, the IRS generated $0. After the cuts, the IRS will generate $0. Getting rid of the IRS can't cost the US government any amount of US dollars because the US government has infinite US dollars.

To be clear, I think it's a bad idea to cut the IRS. We should be beefing it up and tasking it with going after the rich, because taking money away from rich people is a good thing. But buying into the framing that the US needs to take money from people because it can then spend that money on something else is a mistake, and not just because it's false. It's bad politics. Conservatives don't actually give a shit about government efficiency or fiscal responsibility, they just hate taxes. If it makes the deficit 10x worse they still want to cut taxes however they can. But they are happy to weaponize concern trolling about the debt and deficit to cut government programs that benefit the poor (or prevent such from coming into existence), and liberals are very susceptible to these arguments.

Conservative doesn't mean wanting lower taxes. It means the other thing. The lower taxes thing was always about the other thing anyway.

I am also not a man

You don't gotta brag like that

I think this is the least bad choice available. The state wants us to think lethal injection is somehow humane, but we know it gets botched at high rates and has a completely unnecessary paralytic that is likely concealing even more.

Also, I'd consider it just because it reflects the inherit brutality of what's happening.

Fuck the death penalty and fuck south carolina

This makes me feel worse than anything trump has done. We're so fucked.