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I'd guess Portuguese in any maritime area.
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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. Quote:
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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.
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Where Google gets their information...
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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. |
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. |
And what about bean counters? :D
How do they fit into the problem? |
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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. |
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Base-a-ball been berry berry good to me... but this makes boring games.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"12 per team per game" or 8.5?
Seems like hits have been amazingly consistent for 100 years. |
The vertical(left hand) scale goes from 0 to 12 per team per game.
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Hey, don't feel bad, you don't know how long it took me to understand it before I could post it. :lol:
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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.
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My dentist folded her practice and took over her husband's recycling business. Income was larger in recycling trash.
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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.) |
I learned that Ruth Buzzi is the most Wikipedia searched person in Stephenville Tx.
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That's a fun site.
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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. |
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Yes, Chrome does it ok.
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Repeat after me, correlation is not causation.
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Did they make DC gigantic so it would show up on the map?
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Same reason DE takes up the whole dong.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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People are moving less and not as far...
Attachment 68024 Maybe the ones who want to can't afford it. Attachment 68025 And the ones who can afford it don't want to. |
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Yeah, fuck that shit.
Sideways, w/a dead dingo's dick. |
Well, he got me to watch his video. So I guess it was worth it?
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20 minutes to get stung? Ain't nobody got time for that.
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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Classic example of a adult is will always be a child. Apparently a Trump supporter.
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Tw's right, you know. You did just repeat what he said.
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And a lot more succinctly.
One sentence, not three paragraphs. |
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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. |
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I stand by my post. |
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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. |
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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? |
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111.7 degrees Fahrenheit, to be precise, and they're expecting the record to get beaten again today.
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What's worse is that they would surrender, but they don't know to whom to surrender.
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