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Cake day: July 9th, 2024

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  • This is bizarre. The info provided in the question was that Marty ate more than Luis, the question was how would that be possible given that Marty ate 4/6 of his while Luis ate 5/6 of his. The answer the kid wrote (Marty’s pizza was bigger than Luis’) is the only possible correct answer.

    The grader is asserting that the information given in the question was wrong and that “actually it was Luis who ate more pizza”–even though it stated as a premise that “Marty ate more”. How are you supposed to give a correct answer on a test if you are expected to accept one premise (proportion of pizzas eaten) while disregarding another premise (Marty ate more than Luis)? How do you decide which part to disregard? Would they have accepted the answer, “Luis actually only ate 3/6 of his pizza, not 5/6)”? Wouldn’t that be just as valid an answer as “Marty actually didn’t eat more than Luis”?



  • I only know about the existence of villages in NY state because my brother lives in one and had to explain to me what constitutes a village vs. a town–I still don’t really get it! - which is why I said the term may have a more specific definition. So yeah, it may not be a commonly used or understood term even in the NE. In any case, I’m sure it’s used differently here than in the UK, like many things.


  • As a non-American, I’m very confused by this. If it’s a town, it’s not rural by definition. Because, you-know, it’s urban.

    A rural town is a very small town or populated area within a large rural area. The US is a huge country, with very large swaths of rural areas throughout, especially west of the Mississippi. In these large rural areas are scattered small towns of various sizes (say, less than a hundred to less than a thousand or so people), with long stretches of unpopulated (or very sparsely populated) areas between them. That’s why they’re called rural towns–no one would call them “urban” by any stretch of the imagination. They may have the things you mentioned (a post office and bar/pub/eatery) but not much more. But even if you’re technically in a town, you are still effectively rural, since you’re nowhere near a significant population center with anything like hospitals/doctors, shopping, services, etc., and a car is required to reach them (no public transit and much too far to walk or bike). Look at online maps to get the idea.

    As for the word “village”, that’s mostly used in the NE part of the country and tends to have a bit more specific definition. Elsewhere, most of us would just say “town”.







  • Despite everything, Márquez Duany doesn’t blame Trump.

    And this is what everyone who keeps hoping magats will turn on trump once he screws them over enough needs to understand. They’ll never turn on him. No matter what he does, no matter what kind of negative consequences they suffer. It will never be trump’s fault in their minds. They are not capable of forming that conclusion.

    IOW, we (and especially Dem. politicians) are the ones who need to face reality and accept that what we need to win here is an all-out battle for power, not a debate, not a negotiation.



  • My brother told me a while back that Canada and the EU were cooperating together to not buy US bonds, in retaliation for the tariffs. Back when HitlerPig suddenly put a 90-day pause on most of the tariffs it was directly because they were freaking out about what was happening in the bond market.

    Whether it’s true that it’s deliberate retaliation or not, it’s a hell of a brilliant strategy against the Pig since higher interest rates on US bonds (basically like having your credit card’s rate go up, increasing your minimum payment due) could put the US in deep deep doo doo.


  • I want a big enough mass of freak conservative boomers to die off of old age and for the republicans to finally push everyone else hard enough that this country finally fucking snaps and swings left so hard that Reagan’s grave belches black smoke for a month.

    Look at Mike Johnson’s face–he’s not dying for a long long time. Get over the idea that evil people are all old and you just need to wait for them to die, it’s not going to happen. New evil ones are born every day, they exist in every generation, they’ve been with us forever and will be with us forever.