I don't think it's clear canonically whether black mesa actually is a government or private lab - you'd think government from HL1, but then in the Portal games it's clear they see Black Mesa as a competitor, but that's also possible if they're government, so I think it's ambiguous

Personally I say it like Jerrymandering but I pronounce the guy’s name with the hard G

It’s even in the Wikipedia page - apparently they still pronounce it that way in his hometown

Amazing

You prefer him to be so unpopular that the Reform party comes to power?

Honestly a version of Starmer without terrible political instincts might be doing a lot better

Many such cases

I’d recommend starting at a higher pitch so you give yourself more room to fall

The 4th tone is sometimes described as being forceful, and culturally we tend to associate being forceful with having a low pitch, so starting the 4th tone too low is one of the main pronunciation mistakes that nonnative speakers make with the 4th tone

In 20 years the Republican consensus is either that Trump was a normal republican who did good things or they try hard to forget he even existed

You’re underrating that nothing ever happens - most likely scenario: Trump leaves office, Trump lite republicans do poorly electorally, Republican Party begins slow return to normality (takes about 10 years), die hard Trump fans stop voting, some moderates return to Republican Party

I judge the hell out of gen Z for this

Also don’t care

I don’t care

Good thing language isn’t math

For what it’s worth, I just read an article by an American teacher complaining how American students are becoming anglicized and using British punctuation (putting punctuation marks outside of quotes)

That’s fair - those things are surprisingly hard to change