That’s exactly it - when a piece of mail with a stamp on it is “canceled” by stamping something on it with ink, yes, that prevents the stamp from being reused, but it is also the sign from the postmaster that the mail may be delivered, having been appropriately paid for.
The cancellation stamp is a franking mark.
You jest, but you’re not far off.
In Frankish Gaul, only Franks had full freedom, and so “franc” from Old French and “francus” from medieval Latin meant “free”, which eventually took on a few more specific meanings, one of which was “speaking freely” (as in “open, honest”). Another meaning is found in the phrase “franking privileges,” which refers to politicians being able to send items in the mail without being charged for them - the items are “free” to be delivered.
One of the reasons American English uses -er spellings (center, theater) where British English uses -re spellings (centre, theatre) is because of an early American desire to “de-Britishify” after gaining independence. Noah Webster had much to do with this, and changed many other spellings from British English to a newly forming American English.
Americans have always been hateful and destructive. We’ve just recently been given permission to do those things out loud, with impunity.
Stop searching. There’s nothing to find.
If your desired population doesn’t respond to your social or financial status - you need to keep improving it.
Have you tried being rich?
Starts arguing about semantics.
Complains about arguing about semantics.
Funny because the article posted is about a US company announcing a policy change on a US TV network to please the incoming administration in the US and its relation to US politics more widely.
They just want to pick the definition of “liberal” from the place and time that serves their purpose best.
Don’t tell them about the French Revolution.
The end of the fact check era is worth examining because of how it heralds another liberal failure with little to offer in the way of alternatives. It is just another capitulation in the battle against fascism. Liberals, it turned out, were never really the “resistance” that they pretended they were.
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“Created” meaning stolen from labor that is undercompensated, or just outright stolen. “Destroyed” meaning the purported wealth was never real in the first place.
Wealth is defined by resources: access to resources, and ownership of resources. Resources are finite; wealth is finite.
There are plenty of resources in the world to comfortably support all of the people living in the world right now, plus many, many more. Those who own or have access to resources are wealthy. Those who do not, are not.
Those who control the resources extend that control over people who need resources. If there were no people who didn’t have a deficit of resources, then there would also be no people exerting social control based on control of resources.
To accomplish that, most of the resources that the wealthy control must be removed from their control, shifting that control equitably among all. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need, one might say.
Wealth is finite, so yes.
With a magnifying glass.
Oh wait. Not “incinerate an ant.” I got nothing then.
Whatever your existing dynamic with this coworker is, keep it the same. More than enough people are going to be backing away because they don’t want to do “the wrong thing,” or getting unnecessarily closer because they want to “be supportive.” Those are both just extra changes she’ll have to deal with along with the loss of her mother.
Offer stability. You can even explain this out loud to her directly.
Now I understand. I was confused about why people were going to Xhitter for Amber alerts. Looks like California is the issue for pointing people there in the Amber alert that goes out to phones.
I learned a tiny bit of ASL in college from hanging out with a few deaf people, then some more when we had kids and bought a bunch of kids’ sign language DVDs. Little kids are able to do some signing earlier than they’re able to manage speech, and I know that helped our kids to communicate when they were super young.
(You know all this, but I felt like saying it for the passers-by.) I know that a mistake hearing people often make is thinking that sign language is just a word-for-word substitution for whatever spoken language is primary where you live. It’s really a different language, grammar and all, definitely including those “combination” signs you’re talking about.
I seem to recall that there are rhymes in ASL, where signs for two things have similar motions/shapes/speeds.
Also consider that a whole lot of the world was “British” when the US broke away.