You’ve speed-run through the store and collected corn, cotija, crema, and cayenne pepper. Congratulations! You’ve not only shopped, Side Quests.
This is perhaps the most fun of all the slang words that are seeping out of video games and into everyday life, and is a trend among Gen Z linguists. Adam Alexic In another editorial he explains the way young people talk.
There are a few things you might want to try: “Spawns” are unexpected appearances, “Side Quests” are surprise tasks, and “Speed ​​Runs” are completing trials quickly.
Before you resort to archaic slang, consider that it’s simply a new interpretation of how language has always worked. You may think you’re free from archaic slang, but if you tell your spouse that you “failed” to find that cotija, you’re also using game slang — slang for baseball, which was once the hot new game in town.
The idea of ​​two bad guys, Russia and North Korea, becoming friends seems like something out of a B-grade video game. Max Boot The recently concluded Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the two countries is precisely what Israeli academic Yoel Guzansky calls a growing “alliance of evil” of cooperation between Russia, Iran, North Korea and China, he writes.
Max details the web of arms transfers, economic aid, and other support that these autocracies provide to one another. It is complex and vast. “The world’s leading illiberal countries, recognizing their convergence of interests, are moving closer to undermine the rules-based international order,” he writes. “The democratic world must respond with at least as much unity as the autocracies are showing.”
While all this is happening in the open, Russia is conducting “covert sabotage and hybrid warfare against supporters of Ukraine” in the shadows. David Ignatius I will report.
What does this mean? David points to the arson attacks on Ukrainian-owned warehouses in the UK and Spain, and planned attacks on supply lines to Ukraine from Europe. Even civilians in Poland and the Czech Republic appear to be at risk of being targeted by Russia, he warns.
President Vladimir Putin is clearly climbing the ladder of provocation, and “with each step higher the risk of one wrong step increases,” David writes.
Chaser: In another column, David examines how the White House has had to balance sanctions on Russian oil with domestic inflation concerns.
from Kate Cohen Currently writing a column about Arkansas’ proposed “Memorial for the Unborn.” Kate’s heart goes out to anyone who has experienced an ectopic pregnancy, attempted a self-abortion, or endured the depression and illness that comes with carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term.
“And we wonder how many lives Dobbs “It’s how many educations have been postponed or denied, how many careers have been ruined, how many families have been destroyed,” she writes.
These countless victims deserve our attention. Kate wonders poignantly what a memorial is. To them Might be so.
Chaser: Anne Ternes A cartoon about what it really means when Louisiana mandates that the Ten Commandments be placed in every classroom.
The Conservative Party’s actions ahead of the July 4 general election are not only a disaster to look away from, but may also give you the urge to fly across the ocean to see it for yourself. Fareed Zakaria Hooray.
Fareed diagnoses the problems of the Conservative Party (which polls suggest will win only 50 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons) as, first, a loss of seriousness, and, second, a loss of identity. The British right is fragmenting, he writes, as politics move “from a left-right division over the economy to an open-closed division centered around cultural issues like immigration, identity and multiculturalism.”
But what’s most interesting to Fareed is the strategy behind Labor’s star power, one that should interest President Biden and the Democrats if they want to win this fall’s elections, he writes.
- An important Arab ally is losing its democracy. Editorial Committee But Biden has remained silent.
- Megan McArdle Now, they write, is the perfect time to repeal the tax credit hated by economists and beloved by real estate agents.
- Israel’s definition of winning the war is too broad, while the U.S.’s is too narrow. The two countries need to compromise, a former U.S. official wrote. Dennis Ross and David Makovsky.
It’s goodbye. It’s a haiku. It’s… “goodbye.”
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