Fair. It’s hard to know sometimes if someone has English as a first or second language. People can be really technically good, but then not understand more subtle cultural things.
Never know maybe both of our comments will help some people.
It’s common in English to refer to a collective like a company or government as though it were an individual. I think it’s just a simple short hand really.
Eg “The whitehouse said today…” We know that the whitehouse (a building) doesn’t have the power of speech and that really means “a whitehouse spokesperson working in an official capacity on behalf of the government said today”.
Really the headline should be something along the lines of “what, exactly, are Xbox business strategists thinking?” But because of the common knowledge of how this shorthand works they can just use the headline they did.
There’s probably a fancy linguistic name for it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
To smoke a fag in British English means a very very different thing to in American English.
X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
Well it’s good that EU coal consumption is falling too
https://www.statista.com/statistics/265504/coal-consumption-in-europe-and-eurasia-in-oil-equivalent/
I can only help with the last part as I use audible. Have you tried Voice? https://droidify.eu.org/app/?id=de.ph1b.audiobook&repo_address=https://f-droid.org/repo
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.ph1b.audiobook
It’s was sold to a Chinese company a few years ago.
As a non American millennial I have no fucking clue what the second one is.
WW2 was won with British Intelligence, American steel and Russian blood.
Soulseek is my past, present and future.
Um, have you seen how vicious chimpanzees are when they fight? Violence 100% is monkey brain.
Beverly Crusher visibly sweating.
I meant the mixed breaklight thing.
The cybertruck is a whole other level of fucking dumb.
All the more reason it should be illegal! It is in other parts of the world.
I don’t get how that’s legal in some parts of the world.
all along the watchtower starts to play
So say we all
Well yeah. They didn’t say the water isn’t working, just that the hot water isn’t.
Then you can adapt to my preferences and not call.
But you wouldn’t text another iPhone. You’d WhatsApp the person.