Trait is/can be pronounced as ‘tray’.

Nice

So you were brainwashed by the other thing instead.

Counterpoint: telling people how they are supposed to prepare their food, which they consume and becomes a part of them and as such is intensely personal, is a dick move.

You’re getting downvoted but I’m with ya man.

.hummus would be cool

Not true, .org was supposed to be for non-profit organisations, with .gov and .com for other government and commercial entities.

Seconded

I’d understand it as two mismatched socks.

True. Otherwise we’d have no use for that stupid word ‘throuple’. We should call them fews.

Funny that knikkers are marbles! Probably used to be the same in English with een paar, but with language change moving English away from its West Germanic roots we tend not to use ‘pair’ so often any more except when referring to specific things where it’s important that there’s two of them, like aces or… knickers.

Here’s one I can weigh in on. I realise they have different meanings now, but they didn’t always. As language evolves, often words that used to be synonyms are differentiated so that their meanings, while still similar, have a different nuance. An example off the top of my head: sin and crime. Sin was the Old English word for crime, before the Romance word ‘crime’ entered English, presumably after William the Conqueror invaded and French became the language of court. ‘Sin’ didn’t disappear, it just became a more specialised form of the now general word ‘crime’ - meaning a crime against God, used to describe moral failings rather than acts hurting others like theft or murder. We still have both words today, and both are useful, even though they originally meant the same. Since the distinction between ‘envy’ and ‘jealousy’ is arguably pretty nuanced, I suspect the same thing happened here - both were comparative and related to the difference between what you have and what your neighbour has, I think the differentiation is relatively recent. I’m not sure if this explanation helps you resolve this hill to die on, please let me know if I can elaborate further.

And you lack the self-awareness to understand why so many think “vegan bad”. You’re a naive and petulant child.

Much like the Mediterranean.

Please remove “that’s”

Movie was more accessible, Thick of It series was blacker, crueller humour

Because deer are also invasive and aren’t needed for cattle breeding. Not a great analogy

You couldn’t be more reich about that

Apis mellifera is a much better pollinator for most cultivars produced by agriculture around the world, so it’s been introduced into East, South and Southeast Asia too (and it’s pretty closely related to Apis cerana anyway, and they get along OK).

Also, you’re not accounting for species uniqueness, which is highest in Australia/NZ/PNG, southern Africa and parts of South America. These places also have native bees that are outcompeted and outright attacked by Eurobees.

The truth is complicated, but also simple - this invasive species we tolerate and even introduce because it massively benefits food production for humans.

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