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Perhaps you should spearhead an initiative on turning existing letters into digraphs.

For example, ‘x’ should probably be ‘ks’. ‘w’ very much yearns to be ‘vv’, and ‘m’ looks like ‘nn’. ‘Y’ is obviously just ‘ie’. ‘q’ is a failed letter – make it ‘kh’ like in all the bad science fiction. In fact, all the harsh consonants like ‘k’, ‘t’ and ‘p’ should be digraphs: ‘gh’, ‘dh’ and ‘bh’.

Do ieou lighe mie eghsannbhles?

To be fair, there’s the Red Sea on the other side, that connects a lot of the oil-producing countries to the sea too.

The Encyclopedia Britannica has a great article covering this exact question:

https://www.britannica.com/place/Strait-of-Hormuz

Long story short, the strait is not just the only access point to Kuwait, but also a chokepoint to almost all of Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and so on.

There is of course the Red Sea, that too allows sea access to some of the countries mentioned above, but that features its own chokepoint strait, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. That strait is already a conflict zone because of the Houthi conflict. It’s also closer to Israel, and it’s partly under Iran’s control too.

And there’s too little infrastructure on that side to divert enough oil from the countries in question compared to the Hormuz side.

Hmm. How would I check that? Did my instance defederate?

Edit: Apparently we’re federated. Still can’t see any recent posts, though.

Is that one still active? The most recent posts I can see are two months old.

There truly are no unique experiences.

Reminds me of trying to place fences in Planet Coaster.

I found that my taste in bass-filled, rhythmic electronic hip hop music is much more mainstream than I thought it was. And that’s nice! Gives me many more options.

I discovered this song via our uni radio recently:

Dominik Hartz & Frank Lotion – Turbofresh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWCrkLTrMTk

I spotted my girlfriend at the time on Grindr. That’s certainly a situation.

I wonder if there’s horse oil for snakes.

Every language has been influenced by others. English monolinguals just really like to think theirs is special.

She’s doing well! Sunday was spent mostly as a lazy Sunda. We’re going to go to the store tomorrow to try and find her a new denim jacket, and she can hardly wait.

Oh my god, he looks so sad about his diet. :( Poor bun. Hope health is going to improve.

I always used to enjoy staying up late too, but the older I get, the more tired I become around my regular bedtime.

It’s not just sleepiness, but genuine exhaustion that I cannot ignore that leads to awful symptoms like paranoia, eye strain, derealisation or anxiety. I just physically can’t stay awake longer.

My father is declining, my father’s declining, my fathers are declining, my fathers’ declining.

Aye, 'tis my father’s declension.

Asparagus does sound like a convincing argument.

I went back to using in-game communication and social features and I can’t believe we stopped doing it. It is so much more immersive to hang out in, say, a guild hall to chat with whoever happens to be online, than to be available 24/7 in an outside app.

I would also want to add that many of these terms are regional and subculture-specific.

In the specific part of Germany I grew up in, a ‘joint’ was any smokable rolled cigarette-like object with cannabis in it. Nobody used any more specific words like ‘blunt’.

Then talking to people one town over, they looked at you as if you were from the moon if you called anything a ‘joint’ that didn’t have tobacco in it. To them, a ‘joint’ was exclusively a mix of cannabis and tobacco, and a ‘blunt’ was cannabis-only.

Then there’s people who add weed to pre-bought cigarettes, people who insist on using leaves, filters and no filters, tobacco or no tobacco, and so on. Most of these terms are really regional.

Have you tried talking to him?

I understand where this is coming from, I think. Both are distinctly different and bittersweet in their own way.

I just don’t think having experienced unrequited love from both sides fully encompasses knowing the full spectrum of love.

I have had about ten relationships in my life, and every single one of them was different in a meaningful way. Every person in your life is a wholly unique experience, whether it’s unrequited love, a short-lived relationship or a deep friendship. I am an amalgamation of everyone I’ve ever known and loved, and I appreciate that this is what life gives me.