Do you think your handful of phrases counts as “speaking” the language? Most of the Irish people I know would know a bit of Irish but most could not have a discussion about anything significant in it.

Language skills fade if you do not use them.

My understanding is it is taught like Canadian kids get taught French but that it doesn’t tend to stick with most unless they make an effort.

Due to cultural genocide many do not speak it.

That’s true, the USA is even more disruptive currently.

Ed Zitron of the Better Offline podcast had a piece a few weeks ago that explains so much.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

Yeah I don’t need Morty screaming at me constantly.

Gotcha, I only played the original for an hour or two.

It’s good to hear that they took care of the homeless, solved hunger and eliminated disease since they are focusing on this.

He owns the studio I believe

The video for “Freedom” was the first time many in Gen X learned about AIM and Leonard Peltier.

*palate fatigue

I work in wine importing so this is a mistake I make all the damn time.

pallet- thing used to strap stuff to so they can be put on containers (for container trucks and ships).

palate - roof of your mouth or an alternate word for your taste

Palette- painter’s thing for holding paint.

Im only down with eating clean bugs that are large enough to have enough substance to be worthwhile or whatever makes it into processed foods and “foods” that I eat (jelly beans arent really food and frequently have shellac and that comes from a specific beetle.)

Marshawn Lynch was great in this movie

Nothing will ever beat Face/Off when he portrays Travolta’s character pretending to be him.

It’s amazing how much transphobia there was in that time.

Should he need to? He’s an actor. He can pretend to know what he is doing.

They were trying for their Star Wars.

Opioids are fir suffering whereas acetaminophen is for pain signals. A combination of ibuprofen and acetaminophen have been demonstrated to be the most effective pain killer we currently have.

Pain and suffering are different things.

That’s extremely painful

Sort of? The fact is when the midwest got its name there was land to the west America had not claimed/seized/stolen.