This is also ripe for a "so far" meme given the enormous number of omissions and redactions.
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Are there really less than 38,000 visible stars?
I've been out in the open ocean hundreds of miles from land, lights out, looking at the whole of the milky way on a clear night. Just from my one hemisphere view it seemed like 10's of thousands....
I like that every single mention of Obama is one of the pedos cursing his name.
curing his name
Didn't realize Obama's name was so sick, poor thing.
What is this word salad supposed to mean?
Generally, fewer is used when a number of things can be counted ("fewer problems") and less is used when an amount is measured ("less trouble" or "less time"). However, this is not a strict rule and there are accepted instances of less being used with countable amounts such as "250 words or less," "3 items or less," and especially with money ("less than $20") and distance ("less than 3 miles"). Note that in all these cases, the things considered are often thought of as amounts rather than numbers.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/fewer-vs-less
"38,000 mentions", so "less" is appropriate.
I thought it was, one less and two fewer.
It is absolutely a strict rule and Merriam Webster can fuck right off.
An entire Wikipedia page exists on this due to the evolution of use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less
Even Tesco avoided using "fewer" to keep from getting stuck in this debate.
The rule may have been codified in the 1700s, but plenty of linguistic shifts have occurred since then.
The "files" from the "Trump/Epstein" files are mostly MP4 files yet they throw written documents out there as if it is 1950. Don't fool yourself for a second, they videotaped most of that crap that was going on.
Ok but there’s only one species of bird and that’s “bird” dumbass
Yes, yes, yes, but what about Fauci pleading the fifth about Covid huh liberals?
How is that relevant to the topic?
I don't get why he pled the fifth.
It's not like they kicked his lawyer out of the building while trying to manipulate him into saying something they could stretch into justifications to prosecute him, right?
The only one I can't believe is the stars you can see with your naked eye.
In the words of a "totally-not-Republican" person I know (who identifies as "far-right"):
"I'm not saying I would have the man over for dinner."
Obviously I was taken aback and have yet to come up with a response that I believe they would find convincing in demonstrating Trump should not be in the White House, even years later.
Is that the number of stars over the course of a year or at any given time
From the article linked by MML:
You might be in for a surprise when you read it, though. To answer the question, "How many stars in the sky?" The total comes to 9,096 stars visible across the entire sky. Both hemispheres. Since we can only see half the celestial sphere at any moment, we necessarily divide that number by two to arrive at 4,548 stars (give or take depending on the season). And that's from the darkest sky you can imagine. I don't know about you, but that number seems paltry to one's impression of an inky night in the backcountry.
At the poles, where the north and south polestars are pinned to the zenith and no stars rise or set, the same ~4,500 stars are visible every single clear night of the year. At northern mid-latitudes, the pole star is halfway up in the northern sky, allowing us to peer deeper into the southern realms of the celestial sphere. During the course of a year from latitude 45° north, we see roughly half again as many stars as we do at a particular time on a given evening. That tallies up to approximately 6,800 stars. Still pretty lean, but apparently enough to convey the impression of an intensely starry sky.
Well, Jesus' name only appears in the new testament, which is less than half the Bible
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