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Griff 05-18-2019 07:04 AM

I'd guess Portuguese in any maritime area.

sexobon 05-18-2019 08:13 AM

Yep,

I used an interactive map of Massachusetts to pick a city (Brockton) in that area; then, entered that into a language map data center. The answer appears to be Portuguese.

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English ……….62,740 ….72.31%
Portuguese.....6,540...….7.54%
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Italian.........…...585...…0.67%

xoxoxoBruce 05-18-2019 09:54 AM

Cape Cod has always been loaded with Portuguese descendants (fishermen), and natives of Cape Verde Islands but I don't know what there native tongue is.

OK, the language is Cape Verdean Creole, with Portuguese being the common 2nd language.

xoxoxoBruce 05-19-2019 12:51 AM

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Where Google gets their information...

Undertoad 05-19-2019 09:32 AM

http://cellar.org/img/taximedallions.jpg

NY Times story today, on how taxi medallion lenders screwed the drivers so royally, they have been committing suicide, because they are on the hook for million-dollar loans.

This was a market kept artificially expensive via the government ensuring medallions would be limited, a practice that screwed everybody in the short and long run... and when demand fell, the whole bubble collapsed, similar to the housing bubble.

tw 05-20-2019 09:21 AM

Another perfect example of corruption when the purpose of a business is profits - not the product. Medallion brokers only did what is taught and encouraged in business schools.

Honest businessmen always make sure their counter-party is also prospering. That is the purpose of every business transaction. Both parties prosper. Business school graduates (ie Trump) and their disciples must deny this.

slang 05-20-2019 12:23 PM

And what about bean counters? :D

How do they fit into the problem?

xoxoxoBruce 05-20-2019 01:54 PM

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The bean counters only predict or tally results, and report back to the people calling the shots.
Private equity has dismantled more businesses, put more people out of work, than any other threat.

The population is ageing and they are the mean bastards who survived so watch out.

tw 05-20-2019 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by slang (Post 1032810)
And what about bean counters? :D

Too many beans remain to count. Because Trump has subverted exports. Just another example of a business school graduate screwing everything up for self-serving reasons.

Gravdigr 05-21-2019 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by tw (Post 1032801)
Another perfect example of corruption when the purpose of a business is profits - not the product. Medallion brokers only did what is taught and encouraged in business schools.

Honest businessmen always make sure their counter-party is also prospering. That is the purpose of every business transaction. Both parties prosper. Business school graduates (ie Trump) and their disciples must deny this.

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xoxoxoBruce 05-23-2019 11:31 PM

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Base-a-ball been berry berry good to me... but this makes boring games.

Griff 05-24-2019 05:24 AM

The three true outcomes strike out, walk, or homerun game that has developed is boring as hell. It was really bad for the Yankees because their hitting instructors are over selling launch angle. Fortunately everyone got hurt so they have a better mix of batting styles.

tw 05-24-2019 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 1032981)
... so they have a better mix of batting styles.

How does that explain the increase in strike outs?

Griff 05-25-2019 05:23 AM

They are looking to drive the ball out of the park rather than put it in play. Apparently statistics favor this approach but it’s a crushingly boring style of play.

fargon 05-25-2019 06:54 AM

We went to a Brewers game a couple of years ago, and every point was scored by a Homerun. That park is so small it seemed like they couldn't help but hit a Homerun.

Diaphone Jim 05-25-2019 11:09 AM

"12 per team per game" or 8.5?

Seems like hits have been amazingly consistent for 100 years.

xoxoxoBruce 05-25-2019 01:22 PM

The vertical(left hand) scale goes from 0 to 12 per team per game.

Diaphone Jim 05-25-2019 05:37 PM

:o

xoxoxoBruce 05-25-2019 11:40 PM

Hey, don't feel bad, you don't know how long it took me to understand it before I could post it. :lol:

xoxoxoBruce 05-29-2019 11:56 PM

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It appears Doctors and nurses are doing better than many. I wonder if the nurses increase is partially due to nurse practitioners? I have noticed doctor visits are taken up with more nurse time than previously.

tw 05-30-2019 10:47 AM

My dentist folded her practice and took over her husband's recycling business. Income was larger in recycling trash.

Clodfobble 05-30-2019 01:38 PM

A map of the U.S. with city names replaced by that city's most Wikipedia'd resident:

https://pudding.cool/2019/05/people-map/

(Zooming in is tough on a non-mobile device, I managed to make my laptop touch pad work but I don't know if it's even possible with a mouse.)

fargon 05-30-2019 02:57 PM

I learned that Ruth Buzzi is the most Wikipedia searched person in Stephenville Tx.

glatt 05-30-2019 05:09 PM

That's a fun site.

sexobon 05-30-2019 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 1033253)
… (Zooming in is tough on a non-mobile device, I managed to make my laptop touch pad work but I don't know if it's even possible with a mouse.)

My HP Notebook running WIN10 zoomed well with it's wireless mouse.

ETA: HA! Poking around noticing who came from where I found that Harrison Ford and Hillary Clinton went to the same high school. She started the year after he graduated. I didn't know that.

Diaphone Jim 05-31-2019 11:24 AM

Wouldn't open in IE, but worked well in Chrome.

xoxoxoBruce 05-31-2019 11:28 AM

Yes, Chrome does it ok.

xoxoxoBruce 06-03-2019 08:54 PM

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Repeat after me, correlation is not causation.

Happy Monkey 06-04-2019 12:15 PM

Did they make DC gigantic so it would show up on the map?

xoxoxoBruce 06-04-2019 11:58 PM

Same reason DE takes up the whole dong.

xoxoxoBruce 06-07-2019 12:42 AM

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Vacations...

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Clodfobble 06-07-2019 09:41 AM

Even without a statutory minimum, though, has anyone ever known an American with a full-time salaried job who didn't get any vacation from their employer?

xoxoxoBruce 06-07-2019 10:17 AM

There's a lot of people without full time salaried jobs. I've known full time hourly people who got unpaid vacation time. In this Gig Economy I keep reading about it would not happen. But even people who get time off are not taking all of it.

Google comes up with 1,480,000,000 answers to, "why are people not taking vacation time?"
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Fear of returning to a mountain of work (40%)
The belief that nobody else can do the job (35%)
Inability to afford taking time off (33%)
Fear of being seen as replaceable (22%)
To show greater dedication to the company and the job (28%)
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A remarkable 23 percent of Americans have no paid vacations and no paid holidays. 10 is the magic number. The average American worker receives 10 days of paid vacation per year. European countries, by contrast, mandate that employers offer at least 20 days a year.
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Did you know that over 55% of Americans did not use all their vacation time last year? According to Project: Time Off, that’s 658 million vacation days left unused. And 222 million days of those vacation days will not roll over to the next year, be paid out or be saved in any other way, which means almost one third of those vacation days are truly lost.

glatt 06-07-2019 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1033673)
even people who get time off are not taking all of it.

:sniff: I know.

Clodfobble 06-07-2019 09:20 PM

I just went looking at those European vacation laws in greater detail, thinking that hourly part-time folks didn't actually get those benefits--but they do! After working part time for just one month, employees in the UK and Germany start accruing paid vacation days. That's almost unbelievable.

xoxoxoBruce 06-08-2019 12:05 AM

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People are moving less and not as far...

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Maybe the ones who want to can't afford it.

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And the ones who can afford it don't want to.

xoxoxoBruce 06-17-2019 12:29 AM

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Pain...

Happy Monkey 06-17-2019 10:35 AM


Gravdigr 06-17-2019 12:26 PM

Yeah, fuck that shit.

Sideways, w/a dead dingo's dick.

glatt 06-17-2019 12:42 PM

Well, he got me to watch his video. So I guess it was worth it?

xoxoxoBruce 06-18-2019 01:10 AM

20 minutes to get stung? Ain't nobody got time for that.

Gravdigr 06-18-2019 09:56 AM

The best part of that vid HAS to be the first 45 seconds. Dude's acting @ sec 1 like he's already been stung. He's breathless, nervous, looks like he's got the vapors.

And then they cut to the placement of the ant, and then the sting.

Great audio.

And I stand by my opinion as stated in post #2439.

xoxoxoBruce 06-21-2019 12:19 AM

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This was put online by Bill Gates to show we don't know what we think we know. People die every day but not from what we think.

tw 06-21-2019 09:08 PM

News is never about what we already know. How often does the news report that the orbit of Earth has not changed?

News can only report known changes. Most people who die even must have their estate pay for the obituary. Otherwise the media often does not report it. Just another same old - same old. Not newsworthy.

We can sing about "Here comes the Sun". But that past event is not newsworthy even where rain was happening every three days.

Gravdigr 06-25-2019 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by tw (Post 1034539)
News is never about what we already know.

That's why it's called NEWS!!!

:smack:

There is no way he functions in daily life. No. Way.:headshake

tw 06-26-2019 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 1034710)
That's why it's called NEWS!!!

Why do you waste bandwidth repeating what was already stated?

Gravdigr 06-26-2019 12:29 PM

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tw 06-26-2019 12:31 PM

Classic example of a adult is will always be a child. Apparently a Trump supporter.

Gravdigr 06-26-2019 12:33 PM

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Happy Monkey 06-26-2019 04:31 PM

Tw's right, you know. You did just repeat what he said.

glatt 06-26-2019 06:59 PM

And a lot more succinctly.

One sentence, not three paragraphs.

xoxoxoBruce 06-27-2019 12:21 AM

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Who trusts science/scientists...

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tw 06-27-2019 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 1034783)
One sentence, not three paragraphs.

One sentence is everything an extremist needs to be informed. Anything that does not also say why is best called a lie. One sentence only says what the central committee of the communist part has ordered us all to believe. And it works, for example, on people who automatically knew Saddam had WMDs. Because one sentence said so.

Extremist love everything explained in a sentence. Then they need not learn how to think. Easier is to wait to be ordered what to believe. Just another reason why moderates are the patriots. And why extremists admire Trump. Another paragraph that provides the always required reasons why - that succinct intentionally ignores.

Same extremists also knew communists were in the State Department and US Army. Succinct reasoning proved it. But this is also too long - too hard - for extremists to comprehend. So an extremist will only post insults. Following the example of their idol - The Don.

No wonder The Don is so popular. 140 characters is everything an extremist needs to know to be an expert.

Gravdigr 06-27-2019 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey (Post 1034778)
Tw's right, you know. You did just repeat what he said.

Nope.

I stand by my post.

Gravdigr 06-27-2019 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by tw (Post 1034757)
Classic example of a adult is will always be a child. Apparently a Trump supporter.

If you are not bat shit insane, explain how you get me as a Trump supporter. Please.

I've asked you this before, and you refused to address this comment at all.

If it's not your babbling the same absolute repetition in the hopes that one day you'll be right that forever comes in the form of your posts, please tell me how you get there.

tw 06-27-2019 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 1034801)
If you are not bat shit insane, explain how you get me as a Trump supporter. Please.

You are emotional. Your proof is by insulting others. You do not reply logically to a topic. You are divisive. A classic Trump supporter.

And you are not alone. This nastiness, encourages by The Don, has increased significantly. Even racism has increased in the past three years. A recent UT post with numbers, noted is the significant increase in extremists. So you are not alone; you demonstrate a trend that, Hitler, Milosevic, Pol Pot, Hutus, etc also needed to become popular.

An honest man is civil. Do you think you can change?

xoxoxoBruce 06-28-2019 12:57 AM

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We cool...

tw 06-28-2019 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1034830)
We cool...

Just wondering how those numbers for the EU changed this month? One part of France reported 44 degrees (111 degrees F). (Seems wrong.)

Clodfobble 06-28-2019 11:19 AM

111.7 degrees Fahrenheit, to be precise, and they're expecting the record to get beaten again today.

Gravdigr 06-28-2019 11:27 AM

What's worse is that they would surrender, but they don't know to whom to surrender.

Ba-dum tish.[francejoke]


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