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Russia lays siege to southern Ukraine, seizes nuclear plant
Russia is surrounding and bombarding Ukraine's largest cities.
www.axios.com
www.axios.com
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Your Thursday Briefing: Russia Seizes Kherson (Published 2022)
A strategically important city falls.
That is indeed a lot of people that need a place to go. A good friend of mine for the past 20 years is Ukrainian (moved over here as a teenager in the early 90s after they withdrew from the Soviet Union). He also got married recently, and his wife just moved here from Ukraine in the past year. I've been talking with him the past few days, and to your point he says that all of the women and children in their families are safe and have found places to go (not sure if that means they left the country though). But so far he has not been able to reach any of his male cousins or non-elderly men in either family (which includes his wife's 2 brothers). He suspects they are volunteering in some capacity, but doesn't really have any information. They are worried sick, but also happy that many of their family members are safe.
Also:
@Lars I read a few pages back that your family is in a safe place. Happy to hear that, hope that stays true for them.
Was on a little vacation, not in the region anymore.
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No need to waste it. I'd rather use it as refuge for Ukrainian women and children.
Did you find this in the New Yorker?
That's my way of politely saying 'this is unfunny and shit'.
Great post- when did it become acceptable to mispronounce "nuclear"?
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I've been bitching about it for forty years.
There's no such thing as the nuculous of a cell, is there???
Good luck man
per Merriam-webster
A lot of people react strongly to the pronunciation of the word nuclear as \ˈnü-kyə-lər\. It gets on their nerves. And it's true that \ˈnü-kyə-lər\ is considered stigmatized, meaning that while some educated speakers say it this way, others think that it's questionable or unacceptable. But let's think for a minute about why this particular pronunciation, \ˈnü-kyə-lər\, is used by so many people.
There are lots of words, some of them very common words, that have the pattern we hear in \ˈnü-kyə-lər\. Words like muscular, popular, circular, regular, molecular, and cellular. But the phonetic pattern for nuclear only shows up in pretty rarely heard words, the medical terms cochlear and trochlear.
We simply hear one pattern much more frequently than we hear the other. And by analogy, many people's ears gravitate toward the more common sound. Even if you dislike the \ˈnü-kyə-lər\ option, it's good to know that there's probably a linguistic reason behind it.
I feel like "things people are saying" is more accurate than "news".
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and here we are.
Me this morning: "How long until the mass graves turn up?"
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Let’s take a break and have some USA propaganda for a change:
Ukrainian Resistance, Logistics Nightmares Plague Russian Invaders
Russian troops invading Ukraine have made some progress in the southern part of the country but are facing a logistics breakdown with vehicles running out of fuel and troops running out of food, a
www.defense.gov
