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Ookami38

@ Ookami38 @sh.itjust.works

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    I'm surprised trump hasn't attempted to appoint his car to Senate yet.

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  • He also doesn't care enough about the institution he heads to respect it, hence appointing his car, or a car in general, to the position. Like Caligula and his horse, who I can only imagine Trump looks up to hah

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    I'm surprised trump hasn't attempted to appoint his car to Senate yet.

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  • A ridiculous car would be the best to appoint to a high-level government position, honestly.

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    I'm surprised trump hasn't attempted to appoint his car to Senate yet.

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  • I figure he'd look up to Caligula.

  • me_irl

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  • Unless you ask for no/less ice, yeah, most of the volume is ice. I'd wager that for the typical fountain drink, they're probably pretty close to the same amount of sugar syrup. Now, is the ice any better for you? No, that shits FILTHY, but that's a story for another time.

  • ruled men make good rules

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  • Hard men make soft men. Soft men become hard men... What were we talking about?

  • When a mantis shrimp fights a disco clam

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  • I call that effect "baader-meinception"

  • Anyone in tech confirm?

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  • Honestly it's just the Internet. Tech is fucking awesome, as long as it's decoupled from anything and anyone else trying to control, monitor, impose, or otherwise fuck with the tech that's mine, bought or built fairly. And also the untold psychological torture the Internet is just constantly inflicting on us.

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    TIL that Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a self-confessed child molester, according to his autobiography 'Scar Tissue'

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  • Does addiction excuse the abuse, or merely explain it?

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    TIL that Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a self-confessed child molester, according to his autobiography 'Scar Tissue'

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  • IDK Ozzy actively tried to kill Sharon, that seems pretty abusive.

  • Living language

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  • We're just getting to the oldest linguistic debate. Is a linguist's job to describe, or to prescribe? I lean very heavily towards describe.

  • Living language

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  • That's literally how accents and dialects work. People in a bubble developed different linguistic shifts. To them, and to to broader world as a whole, they are speaking a correct form of English, and yet some thick accents are practically unintelligible to people who haven't practiced hearing the accent. We only recently began worrying about being understood beyond our narrow in groups. For the majority of history, these "bubbles" are just what we called cultures.

  • Living language

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  • There are those constraints around written/spoken word, for sure. I'm more referring to how close it is to the "raw" thought.

    We evolved the ability to think. In order to allow our thoughts to reach others, we developed spoken word. In order to allow those spoken words to be passed through time, we developed written word. Each refers back to the previous "layer" of communication.

    Even someone who has a speech impediment, for instance, is still using the same written language as someone else in the same culture. And that written language was developed specifically to try and evoke the words someone in the culture speaks.

  • Living language

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  • Words aren't "endangered". There are literally an infinite number of potential words, if we need to reinvent a meaning, we can quite easily(see: synonym). Further, the original meanings still exist. You can still use "awful" to mean "inspiring awe" and you're correct, you just won't be understood.

  • Living language

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  • Gotteeeeeem!

  • Living language

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  • That evolution has happened SO many times. Why does "literally" give you fits when "awful" or "terrific" do not? Perhaps because it's the shift you happen to be living through?

  • Living language

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  • And "6 7" is a shibboleth, a linguistic phenomenon that's been going on for as long as we have written history, essentially, it's just now that it's the youngins doing the thing, it's bad. Yeah, you right, pretty shitty take.

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  • Written word is a facsimile of a facsimile of what we're actually communicating. We go from nebulous thoughts, concepts not bound by language, to sounds that roughly convey those concepts, and then to squiggly lines that roughly convey those sounds, and then back up the chain in the other person. Really, it's a miracle we understand each other at all.

  • This stupid system that everyone hates has been like this for decades

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  • Any tips on finding an insurance company in your state that doesn't have shareholders? A big part of the insurance issue is that you have to practically be an industry insider to navigate... Anything in insurance, really.

  • What's with those people?

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  • Honestly it sounds like we're describing the same driving style, and I'm just pointing out nuances to the specific wording of the law. And, ultimately, it boils down to, as you said, the driving habits (more than the actual laws) of the area you're in. I do, in fact, live in the states, where those kinds of rules aren't really enforced, and people weave through lanes more or less however they want. In that environment, minimizing your own lane changes is maximizing predictability.

    For what it's worth, I don't ever foresee a time where I'll be driving in any other countries, but in that event, yeah, I'll have to adjust a bit, probably.