6.5 months I was displaced post-Sandy. Some of the damaged homes were just torn down last year, and Sandy was 2012.

But in case anyone has trouble: www.regulations.gov/document/NHT...

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The Biden administration is finally taking a stand against car bloat.

Might have something to do with this major Tesla failure www.torquenews.com/11826/geico-...

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Also the vast majority of kids in my Michigan HS in the 90s had trouble with Shakespeare. The school district was almost entirely white, largely blue collar. The language is tough for many kids. But I've also seen teachers get 5th graders so invested in Shakespeare that they loved & memorized it.

I'm skeptical about code-switching being such a big issue too. Singaporeans are expected to code-switch as a nation - for the majority Chinese population, home is typically Singlish or a Chinese dialect or a mixture of languages, school & business are "proper" English.

I'm a little suspicious of that, it's always been there. My Irish mum who moved to London in 1946 reports having 3 accents - Irish at home, Cockney in the playground, RP for the teachers. My 1980s London comp had ~90 mother tongues and many students were doing multiple code switchings as well.

Yikes.

oh my God. Ana did not take it too another level. that is the company trying to upsell you to a $70/year subscription. come onnnnnn