Flour tortillas are definitely flatbread.

Corn tortilla… I’m not sure. I really just don’t know, but I’d still consider a taco to be a sandwich.

Since when is cake fried?

Indeed.

I tried to downvote but got caught on “subjectively”.

Dammit, I can’t downvote, but I refuse to upvote either!

And they all qualify as sandwich

Sure. It’s about balancing risks, what the business world calls Risk Mitigation (there’s an entire field(s) called Risk Analysis and Management)

We always ask “what’s the risk?” Both for making a given change or not making it. We then attempt to asses which risk is more manageable - which can be “mitigated”.

We have teams whose job it is to analyze the usentied risks, and try to quantify them to enable decision making.

Do you hear what you’re saying?

Dad has been supportive of you, and here you are condemning him.

Frankly, who he dates is none of your business. It’s legal, so you got nothing to say about it.

I mean the irony is palpable.

All of this kind of garbage is AI now.

30% is high. It may have a lot of words from French, but they aren’t necessarily pronounced in a French way - they often become Englishized (Germanized?).

English is squarely a Germanic creole, with French being the single greatest contributor (courtesy of the 1066 Norman Invasion).

Today an English speaker can nominally/marginally understand middle English, and learn it in perhaps a week or two. I learned both Spanish and French, and French is so removed from English I can’t say I know it even today.

No, it isn’t.

It’s a Germanic language* with a strong French influence, and the influence of pretty much every other language (so much so that it arguably has as many loan words as most other languages have words).

*A Germanic language is one that comes from the same precursor language that produced German.

Any linguist would tell you this, it’s pretty surface-level stuff.

If you really want to understand the story, check out The History of English podcast.

No

I do, and I’ve been in chronic pain for decades, have considered the final solution and disregarded it.

Don’t assume you know what other people think about life. I’d even go so far as to say you’re very much the exception - look at people, not media.

Get some original material - this one is way older than you.

Interestingly, we have Hubble in part because spy agencies had spare Keyhole Satellite chassis.

A fight was canceled due to rowdy people? Something doesn’t add up! 😁

Downvote for the political garbage and who the hell us this?

Shatner is Kirk, you will have no others before him.

“Give everyone what they need”

From who’s pocket? It won’t be from the wealthy, because they are powerful - the wealth is a side-effect of that. They’ll still be powerful, and still have more than the rest of us.

Groan.

Fine, take your upvote, Dad. Haha

Yea, it’s nonsense to say “stone” means worked by human hands.

Here’s what Dictionary.com has to say:

the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.

a rock or particular piece or kind of rock, as a boulder or piece of agate.

a piece of rock quarried and worked into a specific size and shape for a particular purpose: building stone.

The etymology of stone indicates same:

stone(n.) “discrete piece of rock,” especially not a large one, Old English stan, which was used of common rocks, precious gems, concretions in the body, memorial stones, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (source also of Old Norse steinn, Danish steen, Old Saxon sten, Old Frisian sten, Dutch steen, Old High German stein, German Stein, Gothic stains).

Anecdotal: I’ve never once heard anyone, ever, make this distinction. Stone and rock are synonymous.

Right?

Field hockey and LaCrosse balls are all the same, have to meet a spec.

Why not just make a spec stone, sell it, and license it with certification tests?