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Hate to bring this up

NacthoMan wrote:

Lano wrote:
I do twitter. Its actually how i get a lot of my news. I know that sounds bad but the accounts i follow are journalists, scientists, and academics.

i never was a twitter guy until elon bought em out. i think its worth checking out!

Really the only thing i can tell is different with elon in charge: more intrusive ads, and making it so you can buy tweet visibility in a very sneaky way.

If it wasn't that there are smart people on there worth following inwould not use it.

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Hate to bring this up

I do twitter. Its actually how i get a lot of my news. I know that sounds bad but the accounts i follow are journalists, scientists, and academics.

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I dunno if its me

I think a lot of people drive with their high beams on.

Like way more people than you would think.

Its nuts.

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Are you still being affected by covid19?

A family member caught it and was not able to join us for christmas. They are isolating and are doing ok.

I got my bivalent booster. I don't wear masks really anymore though.

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We have another hurricane coming this way.

Hope everything was ok.

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How to explain this grammar question...

You know it occurs to me that you said English student and i assumed it meant esl as opposed to teaching an english speaker about their own grammar.

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Hello, HelpQA~~I was a member of the original Help.com years ago and a member of the QA as well.

Welcome back.

Posting has been pretty quiet for a while unfortunately.

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Hurricane Ian came over and we are safe.

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How to explain this grammar question...

This probably isn't the best way to explain it but just a thought (not an original one):

Prepositions are largely arbitrary when not being used in a literal, spatial sense.

So while "in" makes the most sense there in English, in their native language "by" might make more sense. Taking the preposition in the literal sense, the meat isn't being cut "in" pieces (of meat). It's being cut in a room, or in the kitchen, etc.

Another example "We spoke about that." Though it's not used this way in American English as much, "about" more or less means "around." But if you said "We spoke around that" it would sound weird, or imply you almost the opposite of "we spoke about that."

In italian or spanish, if i remember correctly, you'd rather say "we spoke of that."

#grammarthoughts

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Time dilation is a lie.

Anonymous wrote:

Say an empty universe can exist hypothetically. No stars, no matter, no energy NOTHING. Does this universe even have a speed of light?

The thing is, if you take relativity seriously, this question is ambiguous. I would say okay, not matter no energy, no light...but is there space?

Space is not nothing in relativity. Its a space time continuum. Spacetime continuum is the medium through which anything can travel. And the fastest you can move through space is the speed of light, according to the theory. So in that sense the speed of light is still there.

Again my understanding is not super deep and i get frustrated by many of the explanations myself but i imagine a physicsist might say something like that.

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