MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown

Podcasts, all running at 70% speed:

• The Empty Bowl
• Sawbones
• Bake On
• What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law
• Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me

Bonus: I created shortcut that runs this playlist, sets the volume low, turns the speed down, and sets a sleep timer. I also have an automation that runs the shortcut whenever my phone connects to my Bluetooth speaker and my phone is in sleep focus.

Those seas in particular? Because they are bounded by narrow straights.

A gulf has a more specific definition. A sea has a very broad one.

A gulf is mostly enveloped (engulfed) by land, but fairly open to its parent waters relative to its size on one side. Like a reverse peninsula.

A sea can be just about any large, salty, body of water that is between bits of land. They can have very finite bounds such as narrow straights and rivers mouths, more porous bounds like an archipelago, or broadly open to the ocean / other seas between islands or other land masses.

The question for me is “why is the Persian Gulf not a sea, but the Adriatic Sea is not a gulf?”

I guess part of it is that language changes over time, these things got named by different people over the millennia before they were well mapped. Some are translations from other languages, some are political decisions.

The idiom "a lemon in the hand is worth the boat you rode in on" conveys a similar meaning to the idiom "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush". It emphasizes that it's better to appreciate what you have and avoid unnecessary risks or changes, as a loss of a current advantage may not be compensated by a potential future gain. The "lemon" represents something undesirable or less valuable, but the "boat" represents something that could potentially be better but is not guaranteed.

In Japan, they are selling a Japanese language only model that is cheaper than the international version. Any Americans that don’t understand that and try to get around the tariffs are likely to be disappointed.

Thank you for the clarification. I didn’t know. I wasn’t sure if you meant Greenland wanting to leave Denmark, or Greenlanders wanting to leave Greenland…

But desiring Independence whole nother ball of wax than wishing to be a vassal to different nation.

Who is “they”?