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  • Can you touch type?

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  • I was never good at typing until I got a job programming. Never took a course or anything so I'm definitely not using proper form, but if you use a keyboard enough your fingers learn where the keys are.

    A course might help, but like all muscle memory, the trick is to just practice it enough times that you don't need to think about it anymore.

  • Which Animals are the worst, and why so?

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  • Big creature that primarily eats grass. Bad at digesting grass. Worse at digesting other things with gas and intestinal issues being common causes of death.

    No idea how something so bad at eating survives on it's own

  • People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: What do you mean by "Cilantro tastes like soap"? In what way does anything taste like soap?

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  • What something tastes like is part of your perception of it though. It's an interaction that is based as much on the tongue doing the tasting as the substance being tasted.

    I don't think either way you tasted it was more "real" or "accurate", but could be closer to what the majority of people experience.

  • Triangle rule

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  • But when a charismatic idiot says that it's obviously a square, you need a way to prove to third party that your interpretation is correct. Though don't be surprised when some people listen to the charismatic idiot anyway

  • Send HOAs To the Stone Age

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  • A lot of towns and cities around the world have similar requirements and will start fining you if you let your property. And the majority of HOAs aren't overbearing, just a way to share costs for common infrastructure and make sure houses aren't just abandoned or allowed to fall apart by collecting fines.

    But petty power attracts petty tyrants and it's easier to make it onto an HOA board than a town council. So sometimes your worst neighbor has the ability to hand out fines and wields that power with spite and glee.

  • Pizza is a tomato pie.

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  • But people get mad if I say their tomato pie is just a type of pizza

  • In Blow to 'Fetal Personhood' Push, Alabamian Serving 18 Years After Stillbirth Gets New Trial

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  • TV shows often portray coroners as forensic medical examiners, but those are different jobs in practice. A coroner is really just the person in charge of handling dead people for a region. Declaring them dead, arranging for transport to next of kin, and sometimes handing them over to a medical examiner if things are suspicious. Each area will typically have a single elected or appointed coroner who will hire or contract medical examiners and other staff as needed.

  • English as a second language learners: what words were really hard for you to pronounce?

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  • Sure, but shuttle also rhymes with muddle in my East coast US accent, at least in normal conversation. I can force myself to slow down and really enunciate the T, but even then the difference is easy to miss.

  • English as a second language learners: what words were really hard for you to pronounce?

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  • Subtle is spelled weird, but rhymes with muddle. Do you also pronounce "mad" and "mud" the same way? With my accent they have the same first vowel sounds as saddle and subtle

  • Is your weed too strong? This scanner can tell you in an instant

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  • Right? I'm about 10 minutes slower than the machine, but I'm happy to donate my services for free.

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    apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people

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  • None of those languages have thorn in their modern alphabets.

    And every example you pointed out is valid English. You should probably learn it if you are going to nitpick other people's grammer

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    apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people

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  • Op is one of those people who find it easier to read when words are spelled correctly and don't shoehorn in a throwback letter that hasn't been used in English for centuries.

    Notably, there is only one language that still uses the thorn. Icelandic has less than 500,000 speakers worldwide. Also notably, Icelandic is not English and whether or not you're bilingual doesn't excuse poor spelling skills.

  • chicken mcnugget theorem

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  • That and sex is the latin prefix for six and shows up in some math terms. But yeah, the name is just a pun

  • Clock but it is SELECT RomNum FROM Digits ORDER BY RomNum; --it will work this time

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  • It's very easy to miss if you aren't looking for it. But if you keep an eye out, you'll see most clocks with roman numerals do this.

  • What turn of phrase do you hate?

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  • Just imagine it entered common use through a Looney Toons skit where they had to "hold down" their inflatable fort or it would blow away. It's not true, but it's plausible enough you could just decide to believe it.

  • Terrible liquid coils

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  • The names Norway and Denmark are old and predate 1847 by centuries. "German Ocean" is an old term for the North Sea.

    Norway was independent from Denmark at that point in time. So it was off the coast of Norway in the German Ocean (North Sea). And the expedition was sent by the king of Denmark, a nearby seafaring nation.

  • Marie Curie

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  • Looks like she continued to use her maiden name throughout her life. American schools seem to always use her French name, including using Marie instead of Maria. Partially because Americans can't pronounce Polish names. And likely a significant cultural bias towards associating scientific advancement with Western Europe.

  • Donald Trump blasts "a lot of bullshit" from Putin

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  • Newsweek is particularly bad with this. According to them, Trump "loses it" or "explodes" every time he makes a critical comment about someone else

  • Christian parents let their baby die because of their faith. Now they’re going to prison.

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  • The sentencing is in the article. 20-45 years, largely because they showed no remorse and claimed they would do it again