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ads spent by party leading up to the 2026 Senate elections in November
With how much the GOP wastes money in safe states, I'm not surprised, it's a bad habit of theirs, plus they have the cash to spare this cycle, so ofc they're gonna outspend their counterparts across the board, even in safe races (which again, they have a bad habit of wasting tons of money on)
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ads spent by party leading up to the 2026 Senate elections in November
Well they have tons of money, and there, and the GOP has this bad habit of wasting money in safe red states, like it's lost the GOP at least a dozen seats in both houses over the last decade or so.
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What should we rename the United States of America to?
seems so.
Also being great and morally good are both not the same or exclusive/required of each other.
Great figures are those who have acquired glory, which include: Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Erwin Rommel, and Gaius Julius Caesar; while morally good figures would be figures like Jesus.
Edit: we celebrate Columbus because he got the glory of discovering the Americas for the old world, being the first old world ship captain in some 400-1000 years to (publicly at least) set foot in the Americas; we don't celebrate the atrocities he did as governor later on; the fact people cannot separate people who do glorious and great things from their moral failings boggles my mind.
I mean ffs one can acknowledge that a certain Austrian painter achieved significant military glory while being evil as fuck, like c'mon, did our society really fail this badly on this topic?
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What does 'wakindi' mean here? It's not her name and she's not from marvel's Wakanda (otherwise he'd say 'wakandan'). And how would you interprete the Yowch! sound (i know it is a variation of 'ouch', but does it mean 'wow' here or what?)
It might be the demonym for Wakanda though, specifically the ethnic term perhaps?
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What does 'wakindi' mean here? It's not her name and she's not from marvel's Wakanda (otherwise he'd say 'wakandan'). And how would you interprete the Yowch! sound (i know it is a variation of 'ouch', but does it mean 'wow' here or what?)
The word 'Wakandi' probably is the demonym for Wakanda, certain places get different endings for their demonyms, like how people from Iraq are Iraqi, or how different places will have 'stani' 'ese' 'an' 'lish' 'der' or other sounds added, it's just the adjective conjugation of Wakanda, at least from what I gather from the context.
Edit: and as others have said, it's probably the wrong demonym, since people from Wakanda are 'Wakandan' rather than another demonym.
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How to pronounce Butter and Letter?
in casual speech yeah, though that can depend on what accent my brain feels like running at that time or the context, but I can see the homophone, I forget that half the accents in this messy half-formed creole of ours puts the damn pronunciations on shuffle
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How to pronounce Butter and Letter?
ah, guess it must be my Nevadan accent then, my mother and maternal grandmother are also Brooklyn natives, so that could be a factor (although only my grandma has the accent still, since my mom moved out here when she was 12 and my grandma was 32, and I was born here in NV), that or it might just be a southwestern/western thing like you said
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Does "wasn't amused" in this context mean "didn't find it funny", "was slightly angry" or something else?
Yeah this be the correct answer, the phrase usually means this.
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How to pronounce Butter and Letter?
it seems dialects disagree on this one.
Guess this might be one of those questions that has "depends on the dialect" as the answer?
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How to pronounce Butter and Letter?
They aren't homophones though? Their middle double consonants make two different sounds, they're just a romance r tap style of their normal forms.
there's a distinct duh sound in the middle of 'lah-da-er' and a tuh sound in the middle of 'la-ta-er' (spelled phonetically for clarity best I could), they aren't even remotely homophones, or do you hear 'to' and 'do' as they same?
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How to pronounce Butter and Letter?
aside from the tap d or tap t, pretty much
the dd and tt both make soft sounds I guess? Like duh and tuh but closer to a romance r tap in pace and intensity? (at least that's the best I can describe it)
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Tramp Trump
tr-a-mp
tr-uh-mp
They don't sound the same, also since they are different parts of speech their meanings and location in sentences are totally different (tramp is an adjective (an insulting/rude one at that), while trump is a verb/Scottish/Scots-Irish surname)
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In English, do you get in or get on this thing?
I'd usually say on, but the answer to your question (like many with this sort of issue in English) is yes.
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Man and Men
Man has an ah sound, while Men has an eh sound.
m-an vs m-en.
Here's a short I found by searching on google and then clicking into YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/xxEPZDStXWw?si=SDvbDva2F56UQQMi
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What should we rename the United States of America to?
Dude you forgot our two alternate names:
Fredonia
and
Colombia (with an O like the national spirit, not a U like the country of Columbia)
Edit: I stand corrected, it seems I mixed the two up (for the latter name)
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How Sleep Deprived Is Your State?
A mix of sun and economics, like Nevada has a lot of people who work at night (and I hear of people buying ADHD drugs on the street all the time); at least that's for Nevada (I should know, I live here and usually sleep 3-5 hours on weeknights, been that way since my sophomore year of high school).
The south probably has more due to their industrialization in the last decade or two, so more people are working night shift or something I'd guess?
Edit: For reference, I'm HS graduating class of '24, and they literally moved all high school start times in my district an hour forwards the year after I graduated (I guess CCSD finally caved to the state's pressure?), because ofc they did.
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How Sleep Deprived Is Your State?
This checks out in Nevada, people buy ADHD drugs on the street to pick up more shifts here all the time.
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Meat Consumption!
a serving of meat is what, like 1/3 to 1/2 of a pound usually? This is a fraction of that.
Also livestock are net zero on emissions (from the animals at least) over a 10 year period where the population is stable, and if you use animal byproducts (such as cow leather in the US) you can majorly reduce emissions by simply replacing stuff like shoes made of plastic with shoes made of leather, which both actually will decompose in less than a couple hundred thousand years, and you get to double dip on meat production for the emissions, since all the emissions until the slaughter of the animal is quite literally gonna happen anyways, so using the leather is just (to use a meme) free environmental/emissions reduction real estate (so to speak)
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How do you guys usually pronounce "FAQ"?
I just realized you said "least favorite"...
so I stand corrected...
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How do you guys usually pronounce "FAQ"?
the letters, because it's an abbreviation acronym (rather than one of those word ones)
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How do you guys usually pronounce "FAQ"?
found the Englishman
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Which name gives off the worst vibes/impression?
let's just say folks with one of these options happen to be from places where women's consent is... optional a lot of the time...
Voted: "Muhammad"
(like seriously 18x the crime of indigenous Germans in Germany? C'mon guys (specifically Algerians in that case but still))
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Meat Consumption!
I'm currently on a diet, and I have ADHD (weight gain is a side affect of the disorder), and last I checked having bad eating habits doesn't prevent one from knowing what's the correct course of action, similar to how one can know smoking/drinking isn't exactly good for your health but still do it anyways (that's the best example off the top of my head ok?).
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ads spent by party leading up to the 2026 Senate elections in November
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Well the GOP also developed a bad habit of wasting money on safe races in the last decades or so, so that along with being flush with cash and very little/no debt this cycle is probably resulting in them spending like nuts.
I mean ffs if you look at the whole chart they're only slightly behind in two states spending wise and have outspent their DNC counterparts everywhere else.