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Yank has even fewer characters. It also follows English vowel conventions.

Exactly!

There are alternatives. Frank Lloyd Wright used the word Usonian, which has the same meaning and also sounds like an actual word!

I am perfectly willing to cede the term "American" to every person on both of the American continents the second someone comes up with an alternative that doesn't hit the ear like a brick.

Yes! I read the Body Ritual Among the Nacirema.

Great time to release a good old Nuremberg Trial movie

Bottle of wine meme. Top: Thanks for having us at your lovely home. Middle: Look I just think we need to add more housing in the places where people want to live, like near jobs, schools, and transit Bottom: Single family zoning was explicitly invented as a facially race-neutral policy to preserve residential segregation and "local control" is the "states' rights" of our time.

Happy Thanksgiving

Makes sense. Cleveland has been building housing on the sites of closed schools.

Bento (dog) in orange vest crossing wooden bridge in woods

I am thankful for dogs and this dog in particular

Stuart The Minion - Macy’s parade balloon

“Stuart is playful, friendly, intelligent and funny. … most sincere & innocent out of all the minions. …rebellious and obstreperous attitude. He is considered to be a slacker … preferring to chill out and play the ukulele than listen to the rules. …always hungry…”
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A photo of a decorated turkey cookie display on a white plate. The turkey is made from 9 different cookies.

Happy Thanksgiving!
#cookieparty

Photo of Glen Affric, with the caption Rewilding Britaain: 10 years of wild hope. Credit, with some marvellous nominative determinism, James Shooter

Tonight we're celebrating 10 years of Rewilding Britain (@rewildingbritain.org.uk). I don't think I've ever come across an organisation which has shifted both public attitudes and tangible outcomes on an issue so fast. I'm proud to be associated.

The Pillsbury Dough Boy float at the Macy's Parade

He is risen

It’s a bronze (gobble) sculpture (gobble) of a turkey (gobble gobble). Seen from the side, feathers a-ruffle, as on view in the gallery at the Bargello.

Giambologna, Turkey, 1567, Museo Nazionale del Bargello #gobblegobble

ICE, charging in: It'sa him! Mario!

Among white people, the correlation between racial resentment and their voting decision is much, much stronger than between educational attainment and political alignment.

In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.

I am thankful for this app which provides me much of the Thanksgiving experience other Americans always talk about having.

Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration.

It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery

[Dreher in ridiculous tweedy getup] Once I get rich, I will buy a townhouse and outfit it with a plum elevator. Everybody should have a plum elevator, right? On this..

I told him on air that if they keep calling people who cherish their historical civilization and its traditions and artifacts (like Westminster Abbey, above) "fascists," then they are going to create actual fascists. When it becomes

Rod Dreher is turning into Ezra Quarter-Pound

Jurassic Park taught me that going absolutely nuts on lighting can be just as exciting as dinosaurs

So let’s review:

First Chris Lizza alleges that Olivia Nuzzi, while covering Biden in 2024, was engaged in “catch and kill operations” on behalf of RFK Jr while also writing articles like this.

idk if you noticed but when the brits were doing their little brexit psychosis everyone in the EU, including Poland, worried a /lot/ about the GFA, and continues to worry a lot, /on your behalf/

Are you pronouncing USian as (You ess ee an) or (use ee an)?

The second pronunciation is fine; it sounds like a word. It's the first that sounds awful.

That's why I prefer Usian to USian.

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The pronounced S ruins the word. We don't need it.

The pronounced U is enough.

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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:

They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.

Lot of early europe had a very specific agriculture pattern, with a lot of pockets they could work, so people naturally fought over the pockets

Usian (Ue sian) would be acceptable. It sounds like a word.