Some things I noticed 07/06/2020:
- “it was not until they found this new chamber that they saw the full scale of this prehistoric underground human enterprise“
- “focus today is still about performance; we are still looking at the unit of seconds when evaluating useful functionalities on a moderately-rigged machine“
- “You’ve got this highly infectious virus sweeping around the world, and it would be unusual if you didn’t see a big uptick in ME/CFS cases.“
- “maybe Mr. Marsalek’s entry in the immigration database was used to check for a Interpol Red Notice“
- “‘Turnspeak’ is not Orwell, Mr. Dershowitz, you’re the Felix Frankfurter chair at Harvard, you must know that Orwell would never use such a clunky phrase as ‘turnspeak.’“
- “Their egos and incompetence could doom an entire civilization“
- “Defence chiefs say it will enable a better response to domestic threats” ?
- “The dollar is [still] the dominant currency; We are seeing signs that China’s prominence will accelerate. These transitions take a while.“
- -ass constructions in African-American Vernacular English
- Kakkmaddafakka – Lilac