[-] Nougat@fedia.io 60 points 16 hours ago

Wasn’t it already decided that police are not obliged to help anyone? How can this go anywhere?

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 3 points 16 hours ago

That you know of.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 49 points 19 hours ago

Monk doesn't go that far, and it's still obvious. "Here's a joke before commercial!" Pause. Fade back in to a new scene. Pause. "Here's a little cliffhanger before commercial!" Pause. Fade back in to a new scene. Pause.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 267 points 20 hours ago

I've been watching Monk recently, without ads, and it's very interesting how television shows used to be written and edited for commercials. It's dead obvious where the commercials used to be, and even that detracts from the overall experience.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

Taking up two parking spaces? Prison is good enough.

Life without parole.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

From the little we know about Frisian, yes, very similar.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Those are all arguably fair - but they seem to apply to national military judicial systems as opposed to civilian criminal courts.

Edit: And when it comes to the United States, those offenses would be federal ones, found in the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994 - an Act which I still think goes too far. Above, I used the word "state" in its general sense. US States have no purpose applying capital punishment beyond revenge.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 35 points 1 day ago

The only purpose executions serve is revenge, and the state should not be in the revenge business.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I forget the numbers I've heard, but that sounds right. It's also important to remember that in the 11th century, English vocabulary was much smaller than it is today, so those 10,000 words were a much larger proportion of the English language than might be apparent.

Another thing to know is that English was heavily influenced by Old Norse prior to the Norman Conquest, too. The mixing of those three languages, each having some differences in grammar and inflection, ended with English dropping a lot of inflections and turning to word position in a sentence to determine what's subject, object, verb.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[-] Nougat@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is exactly it, and it has to do with the Norman Conquest. After 1066, French was the language of the ~~hurling~~ ruling class and English was for commoners. As such, a lot of French words got borrowed into English, and they usually carried a higher status. Cow vs beef, deer vs venison, that kind of thing.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 145 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The car’s owner, Renee Sanchez, was taking her granddaughter to the zoo, but after loading the child in the Model Y, she closed the door and wasn’t able to open it again. “My phone key wouldn’t open it,” Sanchez said in an interview with Arizona’s Family. “My car key wouldn’t open it.” She called emergency services, and firefighters were dispatched to help.

Just so nobody thinks someone left a kid in the car and then went into a store or something. Tesla should be paying for the broken window repair at the very least.

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