Good lord, this. Due to strange circumstances, I've been involved in editing a translation twice in my life. It's insane. In one case, the original author was relying on a WORD COUNT to judge the accuracy of a translation-- that was a two-language chain, at that! Languages are nothing like each other at all, and it's fairly common to have concepts, words or just grammar that doesn't translate between two languages at all.
strangely common misconception that words have basically the same meanings in every langauge and that translation is just a matter of identifying which exact word in the target language corresponds to the word in the original language
Hey, sometimes it's about finding what you have in common.
Serves the landlords right, keeping places out of the price range of ordinary people. Investment properties are a plague.
Under the new rules, homes that are not occupied for at least six months of the year are subject to a tax of one per cent of the property’s assessed value. The deadline to rent out empty dwellings was July 1.
Fazli said many of the people he has talked to are thinking of renting or selling their properties. He recently met with a woman who owns three empty properties in Vancouver — and says one of them is now listed for rent, another will be listed shortly and she is thinking of selling the third.
“This is a scenario of someone who is kind of in a panic now and needs to rent them out,” he said. […]
amazing
YES.
We don't have perfect candidates. It sucks, but yielding the game to the far right would such SO MUCH MORE. And the mediocre people we get in office still manage to do SOME good, as my having health insurance will testify.
sorry but i want to hit every american talking about not wanting to vote democrat anymore with hammers. lol
Hey, GOTTA include the artwork! A hero and an artist!
This is the only possible explanation that makes any sense at all. Headcanon accepted.
The naming of female characters in Bond movies makes a lot more sense if you headcanon them as trans women who picked their own slutty names.
Like, can I believe "Pussy Galore" is a cis woman who was named that as a baby? No. But a trans woman who got vaginaplasty and is very proud it of? Of course!
Hey, her girlfriend/wife got kidnapped! Of course she's upset!
Dorothy straight-up NOT having a good time during The Lost Princess of Oz,.
Bonus:
Seriously. I'm a manager. I have to deal with people. For, like, just HALF of that conversation, it would be "...we'll mail your last check to you. Don't come by the store again."
New trainee!
100% this. Why is it bad if the people who own tons of land lose money? Fuck those guys!
Good lord, yes, all of this.
But hey, those not-like-us people are SO very convenient to get people stirred up and angry... and NOT questioning why, say, the government lowered taxes on billionaires but raised it on everybody else.
The biologist is correct, too.
Organic Chemist: Everything left of the staircase on the periodic table is metal.
Inorganic Chemist: Actually, boron, carbon, aluminum, silicon, arsenic, tellurium, and astatine are metalloids
Astronomer: Everything but hydrogen and helium have metallicity.
Physicist: all nonmetals become metallic under very high pressure and low temperature.
Biologist: I think there's like one type of snail that has some metal in their shells 🤷