like I get this is basically just people expressing their prejudices towards particular American accents but where people draw the lines on these things is always funny to me.

When you pronounce Iran, are you pronouncing the “r” like the “t” in batter? Why not?

Right yes this is the same problem as with ring species (just across time instead of geography)

like that hypothetical “first modern chicken” was clearly capable of sexually reproducing with its proto-chicken cohorts. So that notion of species has the problem of trying to define a transitive closure on a non-transitive operation (“can produce fertile offspring with”)

lol yeah that’s exactly it. I think the most common colloquial definition of a species (what I learned in high school biology) is like “the largest group of organisms that are capable of producing fertile offspring”) but like that’s clearly problematic here..

Turns out what constitutes a “species” is notoriously difficult to nail down!

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They’re slow to access of course, but they’re pretty perfect for long term cold storage.

Maybe they were being used inappropriately but cool me… skeptical both of the claimed savings and that the replacement is a good idea.

“You claim to want nuclear disarmament and yet you have nukes” YES THATS WHY I WANT DISARMAMENT

Some would say that one of the key roles of the state is resolving dilemmas such as this

Generally I prefer Thai to Japanese food as well.

There’s obviously a lot I haven’t experienced, but broadly speaking my favorite east Asian cuisine is indo-chinese

Honestly my intent here wasn’t to dunk on Japanese food, I like Japanese food and British food (both the more expansive and more narrow definitions of each). Or at least, there’s stuff from both cuisines I like.

If what people mean when they say this refers to salinity, the critique really doesn’t apply to British food either imo

You’ve identified another point I find somewhat frustrating with this type of discourse because it’s really not clear to me what people mean when they say this either.

As I’m using it I’m really just approximating something like “boldness of flavor”

You might point to ramen as a counterexample but I think the same logic that leads people to implicitly exclude British curries from the category of “British food” (which they must do to call British food bland) would also require them to exclude ramen due to its Chinese origins

Your daily reminder that there is no such thing as a singular “will of the people” much less one that can be invested in a single person