Some people are in a lot of pain.

Even TV shows point out situations that it could make sense. House,MD

https://youtu.be/V-b7Lu0B9Jo

What’s the flag under Brazil?

Whats does it means?

Nothing, just americans like to invest on stocks.

Oh, “my family are” would also be correct in British English! Basically any noun that describes a collective is treated this way. It’s an interesting quirk and definitely sounds odd if you’re not used to it.

Ah. Well that’s just stupid. Like when I’m talking about family, which is composed of individual members I love, I don’t say “my family are having dinner tonight”. Why do you think team is treated in such a peculiar and incorrect way?

This is misleading. Many of these family owned businesses are publicly traded and included in the top 500 in the chart. Walmart, Berkshire, Ford, BMW, etc.

It’ll be very interesting to see this chart in 5 years, after sanctions against Russia have really kicked in and China’s slowdown starts to take really show itself.

Seems insane to me. By overall sentiment, pornography is less moral than abortion. What?

The title is so deceiving. Interesting data but the title ruined the post.

No, what I meant is that in American English you say “our team is winning”, but in British English you say “our team are winning”. The team is a unit made up of multiple people, and British English reflects the “multiple people” part whereas American English reflects the “unit” part.

And you would lose the bet. Just look at half the shit you own, how many of them say made in China vs made in Africa. Africa remains a primary resource economy (mining, farming, lumber, etc) until the political situation stabilizes. Some countries are already making it out, eg Nigeria, Kenya, SA, etc, but everybody else got a way to go.

I also found it interesting that the US’s share of the top 10 companies (9/10) alone accounted for over $8t in value, or nearly 10% of the $81t in market value across over 7100 companies.

I looked it up. Most of the biggest 100% family owned businesses are indeed german and they would definitely be in the top 500 of companies.

Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_family_businesses

You just hope one of them can crash land on you

Why do you say that "data is" is incorrect?

Rain water is no longer safe for human consumption as of last year and may some day be unsafe for agriculture. Some consider this a good thing. I disagree with these people. Water, air, and land belong to the earth and access should be human rights. Yes having contaminated water means you now have to purify it and sell it rather than just use wells or irrigate with river water and this is “good for the economy” because it “creates jobs” and profit but to me this is dystopian.

My statistics professor went on a tangent one day about how the ‘a’ sound in “data” (as in dapper) signifies singular information and “data” as in the character from Star Trek signifies the distribution of information.

The correlating decline of society is entirely coincidental. Pay no attention.

You’re saying there’s no such word as “teams” in Britain’s lexicon of words? Or even vernacular usage?

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"How many fewer animals you eat by eliminating 1 meal a week"

Come on man, this isn't hard.

You should probably reword this. "EU27" is not a country. Also, the plural possessive of "country" is "countries'"

It's actually both, depending on the context in which "data" is uses. If "data" is meant to refer to a specific collection of numbers, then it is plural: "The data are in a spreadsheet." Replace the word "data" with "numbers" in your head. If "data" is meant to refer to a nonspecific collection of information, then it is singular: "The data on drinking and driving is clear". Replace the word "data" with "information" in your head. (Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data)

Google adjust results based on factors like location and what else you’ve searched recently. You’d probably get the same results as each other if you used an incognito tab. For what it’s worth, google trends shows, “Data is” is searched about 3x more often than “Data are”.

Oh and chatGPT is a chat bot, not a fact bot. It’s not for if you are trying to get factual information, it’s just for writing text that sounds human.

But it looks nice