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SaltSong

@ SaltSong @startrek.website

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  • Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app

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  • Sure they can write laws making it illegal to claim the king of Thailand is a doddering old fool anywhere in the world. Good for them.

    They have no legal right to enforce it on me, though. If I visit their country, of course, I will be subject to their laws. But they can't apply it to me until then.

  • Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app

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  • They can write whatever they like, but in practical terms, they can only enforce their laws inside their borders.

  • Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app

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  • No European law applies outside Europe. That's kind of the nature of laws.

  • Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors

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  • Provide anything to back your shit up or shut up.

    This puts me in mind of the landlord asking for a photo of the water not being hot. What would you expect "proof we were not noisy" to look like?

  • [DS9]Vulcan Love Slave? Why would that be someone's choice of porn?

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  • Except once they seven years when they become the most sexual beings in the trek universe.

    Myself, I'd go for an Orion mistress, but not everyone is into the green.

  • Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files?

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  • I suspect that the reaction to the edited video spooked them. They were expecting to get away with that, and when it was so easily called pot as a fraud, they had to reconsider.

  • Trump says no one cares about Epstein. Why won't his base let it go?

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  • He may have finally shot the wrong man in the middle of time square.

    I doubt it, though.

  • ‘I’m shocked’: Damaged electric vehicles stranded on Vancouver Island

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  • Do they not have flatbed tow trucks?

    According to Seaspan, Moffatt’s EV was denied boarding on their barge because it was inoperable and not on a flatbed tow truck or trailer.

  • What's y'all favorite soda/soft drink

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  • Back when I lived in N. Carolina, there was a local brand called "Dr. Enuff." Loved that stuff.

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    Would the creation and implementation of a bona fide Dyson sphere megastructure to capture energy more directly from a star ever be feasible or viable were it to succeed? Can the risk be underwritten?

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  • On earth? No, not by a long shot. We would need to get into the deconstructing planets business.

  • Trump Spirals After Being Asked if His Name Is in Epstein Files

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  • An interesting analyses. It certainly matches what we've seen. His attacks on the standard list of people is moderately pathetic, and quite predictable.

  • Trump Spirals After Being Asked if His Name Is in Epstein Files

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  • He's never told the truth in his life. How hard would it be to say "no, of course not."

  • ‘My heart is broken’: Indigenous Australians lose landmark climate case | Federal court says government not obliged to shield residents of Torres Strait Islands from the effects of climate change.

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  • The government should be obligated to shield them from the causes of climate change. But I suppose that ship had sailed.

  • "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to".

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  • Context is as important to language as syntax.

    Context is important to the message, yes. But if I need the context to understand a particular word, I would understand the message just as well without that word.

  • "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to".

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  • Yea. Not helpful.

  • "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to".

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  • I'm aware of the existence of contranyms. None of the examples you gave apply, as they just have different meanings, or the same leaving with different connotations.

  • "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to".

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  • Right, that's "speaking figuratively." There are rules for that.

    But a word that means the opposite of what it means is not a useful word.

    I'd hate to find a box in my lab marked "inflammable."

  • Bulge in man’s underwear at airport turns out to be 3 pythons, Thai officials say

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  • Trouser Python. Technically true, and no-one is going to check.

  • Democrats now openly attack Mamdani

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  • I was thinking this myself.