idiomaddict

joined 2 years ago
[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 90 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

You’ve heard of the double down, but what about the duodecuple down?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

I can’t imagine feeling comfortable saying something like this, especially on fucking tv

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I can understand that, but I suspect that neither calls itself The Times. In countries with a large newspaper known as a Times, The Times is called The London Times to differentiate itself

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Jesus, why did they choose that name? I get that it means truth, but surely it was tainted by the then 88 year old newspaper in the country that colonized yours? Imagine if an Algerian person, fed up with French interference in their media, founded the Algerian newspaper, Le Monde.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I’m awkward and conventionally attractive, so online dating was better for me, because it allows me to make a connection with someone while I have time to think about my words.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Well feigned ignorance can totally be a strength, but actual ignorance is only worth your luck or others’ protective instinct

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Especially since now there’s covid (in addition to everything else) and I don’t trust that guy to have taken sufficient precautions against transmitting diseases

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m honestly not sure how that would apply to infant adoptions. It’s my understanding that if the adoption occurs early enough, the adoptive parents will be listed on the birth certificate. It certainly feels like a child adopted in infancy by citizens should be just as eligible for the presidency as a child naturally born to citizens, but I’d also have a hard time drawing a line age-wise after which that would no longer apply and I do see a reason to bar children adopted at 17 from the presidency. My niece was adopted at three years old and she does remember her biological mother, but she’s absolutely my sister and brother in law’s daughter, in terms of her personality, culture, and values. That’s only a data point of one and I’d like more, but I don’t know how easy that would be to track for other adopted children.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well that’s a fucking problem. What if Russia, India, and the US turn against the rest of the world? I don’t know if other NATO countries and other countries with competitive militaries can do it alone. China is going to have to take a stand one way or the other. I hope they make the right decision, but I don’t know if they will.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ehh, they scored more than half of those points within six minutes, and six out of seven within the first half hour. They stopped trying to score after halftime and dampened their post-goal celebrations. It seemed like they really weren’t trying to rub it in, but Brazil was just not being competitive.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I had an app that made me solve a simple polynomial equation to unlock my phone between 22-7am because I was taking ambien at the time and I didn’t want to risk it.

That could work, but we’d have to find a problem that hegseth can actually solve sober.

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