One of the tensest matches of the cup, the only reason being the Spanish inability to get the ball the last few meters inside the goal. Otherwise it would have been the most one-sided. Including the group stage. Tbh Argentinian defense did their job amazingly.

Milosevic didn’t have Hillary to tell him when to bomb, he had to improvise

Something on the subject of public transportation. Depending on the city and how much I spent in it before I was teleported (assuming the stage is in the same city), I could whip up a more or less localized talk.

As someone who got into women’s sport for the football World Cup in 2023, it was every bit as World Cup-y as the current men’s one. Fun fun fun.

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This seems to be a common occurrence in their home American market, if what you read online is true. There’s people constantly complaining about diarrhea after Taco Bell. All Americans. I guess their international franchise rules are different and better controlled.

Finally a worthy opponent!

Do we see such innovative rebellions in, say, art? Or literature? Architecture? The sciences?

I never thought that music went through a similar rebellion. At least not in the matters of complexity. But it makes sense. I’m very familiar with the art & architecture one. Modernism is one of the most revolutionary movements in human history.

There are some interesting comments about how other languages do it in other threads.

Here’s one more idea - is this person present or not during the conversation

Edit to expand on the idea:
We can have 3 pronouns

• Person participates in the conversation
• Person doesn’t participate but is somehow involved with speakers and conversation (like talking about a friend, or a customer that bothered you at work)
• Talking about someone in an abstract sense. Like when writing about a celebrity, or a biography, or describing someone’s life (even if a friend)

Linguistics, just like in our world. The purpose of pronouns is to reduce repetition in speech and writing.

Additional gendered aspect is there for easier disambiguation between multiple people’s pronouns when mentioned in the same context.

No not really. They were always a subsidiary of Oppo, since the beginning.

One amazing thing we discovered in the last ~20 years is just how common planets are.

I still remember the time when it wasn’t taken as a fact that most stars will have planets.

If only this guy was a member of the US government, he could have done something

This entire region should have organized one world cup, instead of the farce that was Qatar.
Saudi Arabia + Qatar + Kuwait + UAE and maybe Bahrain. The rule about hosts automatically qualifying would have to go, but together it would make some sense, and they would actually have enough different cities for a proper world cup.

That’s just a regular chef

All the mentioned people officially reside in Spain for tax purposes, alt least they did at the time those tax evasions happened.

The way tax residence is determined (for a single tax year) is:

• Did you live in a country for more than half of the year in a given year (183+ days)
• If there is no country where you spent more than 6 months, where is you primary “place of activity”. Which can be difficult to determine and is subject to the court interpretation.

This is why so many rich people maintain an official residence in Monaco, despite living all over the world in reality.

Ronaldo, Messi, Shakira … At this point who didn’t try to avoid taxes in Spain.
Not sure if this means tax evasion is popular, or the tax administration is good at detecting it.

The only one to get away is David Beckham, who got the Spanish law changed to pay less tax.

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But did you stand puzzled over a pile of wood, arguing? And then talk about the book you read

She was a boy, he was a girl, can I make it any more obvious

denial of Israel’s existence

or calls for its elimination

Oh they eliminated the obvious loophole: “It does exist but it shouldn’t”

Well there was period where I changed cars every 2 years. For a total of 3 cars, and then I didn’t need one any more. Not the most egregious example but I did like changing them. It’s like any other toy, it’s easy to get hooked on upgrades and trying out new models.