A stroke can definitely affect your speech, so some people may not pronounce their words as they did before. In some cases it might sound to others as if they have a “foreign accent”, especially if they can no longer pronounce some sounds like “th” or “r” well, which are also sounds that non-English speakers have trouble with.

As for suddenly being able to speak a language they never knew? No. I have heard of some people becoming more artistic or creative, but that could be from damage to other parts of the brain that previously inhibited that behavior.

Before that you had to work until you died or couldn’t physically do it any more and starved.

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I suggest It’s Marloe and Mythical Sausage.

Exactly. A third party that only puts up a candidate for President every four years is not a serious party but a joke. It takes years of work, starting with local and state offices, building support and good candidates, to be a serious alternative party with a wide base of support and chance to actually win national offices.

Unfortunately in this election (like last one and probably the next few elections at least), we don’t have the luxury of voting for who we most idealistically agree with, or making a protest statement. Fascism and authoritarianism are on the rise here (and in many other places). It has completely taken control of one of the two major parties, the Republican party.

The way our electoral system works, if we don’t vote for the only viable opposition, which is the Democrats, we are in danger of allowing an authoritarian regime to take over and toss democracy and our civil rights aside. Once democracy is lost it will take generations to get back, if ever. Trump in spite of everything, is the likely republican nominee (if not, someone just like him). See what would happen if he gets into office again here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-2024-platform-so-far-1.6961527

That’s scary as hell. Despite people being unhappy with Biden or his age, he has accomplished a lot in spite of the odds, with republicans doing all in their power to stop him. See https://navigatorresearch.org/lowering-drug-prices-and-investing-in-infrastructure-are-most-popular-and-known-biden-accomplishments/

But the main point is that electing Biden (or whatever Democrat it may be if he doesn’t run for some reason) will prevent the authoritarian regime from taking power.

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I think she’s upset because “Secretary of Transportation” has the word “Trans” in it and she got confused.

Fear of being primaried is certainly strong enough to get them to go along with almost anything, but since the rise of the Manchurian Cantaloupe it really has gone far beyond that to fear of literal violence against them and their families. They are thoroughly intimidated and under the control of the extremists.

Of course the threats and violence also extend to election workers, judges, government employees, etc. Remember what happened to Nancy Pelosi’s husband as just one example among many in the last few years.
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/the-fear-factor-in-republican-politics-trump

Yes, and running for their lives and hiding from the mob.

No Republican senator has yet expressed public support for the resolution, and those viewed as most likely to vote “yes” say they would prefer to resolve the impasse in another way.

That’s because they’ll get death threats if they appear to cooperate with Democrats in any way. Just like we saw in the House and winding up with Gaetz’s choice of Mike Johnson for Speaker, Repub Senators are just as terrified to go against Mangolini’s magats.

Update: The republicans, as would be expected, chose option A and caved to the extremists, electing an ultra maga election-denier, Mike Johnson, as Speaker. This is bad news for Ukraine. He was previously supportive of Ukraine but then he switched and voted against more aid last time. In his acceptance speech he mentioned supporting Israel but made no mention of Ukraine. The extremists have won the Speaker fight and are emboldened.

But the American people, the White House, and the majority of the Congress and Senators support Ukraine and will do their best to get more aid bills passed. But things will be more difficult now because of this.

The extremist maga wing will never, ever cave. So it’s up to the not-so-extreme Republican members to decide between A) cave to the extreme magas and elect one of them as Speaker, or B) negotiate with Democrats to form a coalition that can pass bipartisan legislation, leaving the extremists powerless, and elect a more mainstream (if you can still call them that) republican as Speaker. But working with Democrats in any way is poison to Republicans, who are terrified of getting on the wrong side of their “base” and the right-wing media, which would make them subject to death threats and violence to them or their families (yes this is a real thing).

Picture the “sweaty guy trying to decide between two buttons” meme and you see their dilemma.

It would be great if they would use this opportunity to make some other improvements for dogs, maybe better pathfinding, maybe even a set of new dog types with different colors and markings like cats have. And of course it would be fun to be able to dye or trim the dog armor too.

Personally I wish we could toggle the teleportation function on and off so we don’t have to keep them frozen in one spot all the time, and I think kids especially would love to be able to pet them (say by right-clicking while crouching with an empty hand) and get heart particles for that. Lots of possibilities and they do listen to feedback so users should advocate for what they would like to see.

I think adults underestimate just how many kids play Minecraft, how much they like the pets and how excited they were about dog armor. So it’s not surprising that the armadillo won and I don’t think it’s worth getting upset about. That’s just how voting works, someone wins and someone loses. I was just glad that I was finally able to vote at all starting last year, since before that you had to have a Twitter account to vote which left so many people out.

I do agree that we aren’t given enough information about each one to make a proper decision on which to vote for, but that also gives them flexibility on how it gets implemented, allowing user feedback to have an influence.

@Andrewsyvic I’ve been watching some. Cubfan had a really exciting run today with several really close calls. Starts at about 13:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPBqlgthpJw

To be considered Vanilla means out of the box without mods, so definitely nothing that requires anything like Optifine, Forge, or Fabric, because then you are running the game through their interface instead of Mojang’s.

However, out of the box does have a built-in interface already included for letting you use and manage texture packs (now called resource packs), so IMO those would still count as being vanilla because you are still doing everything through Mojang’s installation. Just like using a customized skin. That’s how I would define it.

eta: When it comes to data packs, I would say those would not count as vanilla because you can change loot tables and such, which is definitely not playing it as designed.

Renting them out is not selling, it’s an ongoing income source for the owner. The renter does not determine the price when the alternative is to move elsewhere or live out of your car. There’s simply not enough housing–supply is limited. It’s not a simple equation like a factory adjusting the output and price of its widgets. If things were as simple as you say, there wouldn’t be such a severe housing crisis in the US. Just search for US housing crisis, there are thousands of articles explaining what’s going on.

“Investors” (big, small, whatever) are selling homes at those prices (or renting, or VRBOing) because there are customers ready to buy the next available unit.

The “investors” are the buyers/customers, and they aren’t reselling these houses–they’re renting them out. It’s mostly corporations increasingly doing over the last 15 years or so (I think it started around the 2008 financial crisis). They have the capital to do it and so regular people are being priced out more and more as this practice keeps driving up prices.

It didn’t used to be this way. Even in my “cheap” area, when I bought my house back in 2005 all but one house on my block were owner-occupied. Now, more than half the houses are rentals because whenever one came up for sale it was bought by a rental company. This is a serious crisis that needs to be addressed.

They asked if bodies were found, and he answered that “biologics” were found, which means nothing – well, it does mean one thing: No. No bodies were found.