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"One would be forgiven..." https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/just-deserts-or-just-desserts#:~:text=Despite its pronunciation%2C just deserts,but pronounced like the sweet What to Know Despite its pronunciation, just deserts, with one s, is the proper spelling for the phrase meaning "the punishment that one deserves." The phrase is even older than dessert, using an older noun version of desert meaning "deserved reward or punishment," which is spelled like the arid land, but pronounced like the sweet treat. Based on the way the second word in just deserts (“the punishment that one deserves”) is pronounced, one would be forgiven for imagining that it came about in reference to some form of discipline involving custards, cookies, or petits fours. It might even make one wonder why there are not other meal-based forms of chastisement in our language; why no deserved breakfasts, no requisite lunches, no warranted teas? Because it’s not that kind of dessert. 😇

It's much more difficult for guests to contaminate the contents of the big bottles, isn't it? With the small ones, It's possible to put some in your hand and then put it back into the bottle. Am I being too OCD about this? 😁

I prefer the smaller bottles -- but only if they're sealed. I often suspected that housekeepers would simply refill half-used bottles from previous guests. Gross!

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It's also a way to make messages unreadable for a certain subset of people one might have a certain type of prejudice against. Just a thought...

By Adam Kovac February 23, 2023 Several police departments around the United States are warning Jews of extremist groups planning a “Day of Hate” for Saturday. https://forward.com/fast-forward/537473/jewish-communities-white-supremacists-feb-25-day-of-hate-nypd/ The NYPD Intelligence and Counterterrorism bureau said the cautionary message is being circulated due to social media posts and video “instructing likeminded individuals to drop banners, place stickers and flyers, or scrawl graffiti” targeting Jews. They added that at least one person has disseminated a message encouraging these acts of hate to be recorded. In the warning, the NYPD advised officers to maintain “elevated situational awareness” on Saturday, particularly at locations that “might garner higher interest from these types of actors.” Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, said his group learned of the Day of Hate several weeks ago while monitoring of several extremist groups’ social media and communications channels. He said a variety of groups have signed on, including the Goyim Defense League, which has taken part in some highly visible acts of antisemitic propaganda and was cited by the suspect in last week’s shootings of two Los Angeles Jews. But other groups large and small have also posted about the Day of Hate, he said. “It’s essentially a hodgepodge of white supremacist organizations, many of which engage in on-the-ground activity like flyer distribution, banners, protests, that sort of thing.” ...............................

I hope you realize that non-native English speakers on this site might have great difficulty reading your vowel-less shorthand.

Well, it's not all-male. Only the rhythmic chanters are male. There are also female and male dancers and singers -- the focus of the tourist performance. Spies learned that Limbak (his driver) had already integrated dancers with traditional male cak chanters. Spies's only contribution was the suggestion to use the Ramayana epic for the danced story and to present it to tourists. He was in no way a choreographer and left that to Limbak and others. Spies helped publicize the new performance to Europeans and other visitors to the island. To this day, the kecak is still only for tourists. And the original cak chanters continue taking part in traditional sanghyang rituals and the popular (for the Balinese) secular performance known as janger.

Yes, people do "allege" this quasi-historical myth. But like many myths and legends, the actual history of this tourist performance is much more interesting. 😊

Unless you're a Yiddish speaker, you might check how you write German names. ☺️

I suggest that you add the words "even more" before "division" in this sentence. Putin has already succeeded in fostering such divisions. But he'd like to foster much more of it. 🤬

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Like all social media trolls, they refused to accept clearly proven facts and evidence that didn't support their opinions. They'd simply say that a quoted or cited source was "notoriously liberal" or "lying media" to indicate that it wasn't true. All trolls do that rather than engage with proven facts.

The P forum was the prime outlet for a pitifully small number of 🤡s — whose sole mission every day is to "own the Libs." They would lie, cheat, scold, and mock to try to own those who disagreed with them. But the only thing they really accomplished was to shut down the forum that they patrolled 24 X 7 X 365. Their lives must now be pretty miserable. 🤓

Who knows what the mods or the Fab Four Fanatics had in mind on the day they closed it? I suspect that they'd had enough of the endless threads that were driving everyone crazy.