Lilac [she/her]

Your link directly contradicts what you said?

If colours were simply a naming scheme for wavelengths then pink is not one

However, colours are not simply names for wavelengths – colours merely label our perception of light, once it has passed through our eyes.

My favorite Teams feature is that when you share your screen, it puts some giant bar that can’t be hidden at the top of the screen that covers up your tabs.

WARNING: Russian trolls defend Trump and Putin. Or they attack Trump and Putin. If you someone doing either of these behaviors, disengage the troll!

And people who speak Swahili (which has 18 noun classes/genders) might complain that with only 2 genders, there are many examples where its still ambiguous.

There’s an infinite amount of extra info you can append onto any part of a language, you have to make a cutoff somewhere. I’m just glad English didn’t go with a feature that made me want to kill myself in most conversations when I was learning Spanish.

Kinda. You can’t define a name, but you can get the compiler to interpret literals as a function. If you have a Num instance for (Integer -> Integer) where,

fromInteger i = \x -> x * i

the compiler can interpret integer literals as functions like so

x = 2(5) :: Integer

Glad to see the USA’s plan to support their “Southern Neighbourhood” is via sanctioning them. A classic, foolproof strategy that never causes unjust suffering.

I really like this short video (15:07 in length) of Fred M’membe and Kyeretwie Opoku discussing China vs the West’s relationship with Africa and the historical context, and China’s history of helping Africa when the West refused.

Although it pains me to say that the US Embassador to the UN is right about something, I can agree that the “choice would be simple”.

He’s the image for this Clickhole article titled “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point”