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  • Let’s say someone asks “did you check the thing?”

    In Hebrew, you can reply: “לא, אבדוק” meaning “no, I’ll check”.

    But if you drop the comma, it comes out as “לא אבדוק” meaning “I won’t check”.

    The negation of the verb is done by adding לא (“no”, or “not”) before the verb.


  • I’ll give you a hint: it was painfully hard for me to resist capitalizing the “I”.

    I wanted to write it in a way that actually would be misunderstood due to lack of punctuation, but it was too much of a cognitive load. In my native language it’s really easy: for example, the difference between “No, I’ll do it” and “I won’t do it” is just a comma. But in English it’s not that easy.






  • Interesting. I actually wonder why we don’t have that here (Israel), since the majority of homes have sun-heated water. In the summer, the hot tap can reach scalding steaming temperatures (I’m not joking). It’s a shame to let all that free energy go to waste.

    Though to be fair, I’ve lived in apartments where the cold tap is scalding hot in the summer too, because the pipe is exposed to the sun. In that case, the washer gets a free ride, whether it needs it or not!



  • If you don’t think there is such a thing as radical atheism, you might be in a radically atheistic echo chamber. There absolutely is a way to take it too far. For example, thinking that all religions should be abolished forever.

    Personally I am also an atheist bordering on radical :D


  • More than that: Judaism, Christianity and Islam all believe in the same god and the same creation story (more or less). Not to mention, different denominations within each religion (e.g. Catholic, Protestant for Christianity). It seems these shared beliefs don’t really contribute to any kind of peace.