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>YOU’RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD'ED UPON Thanks for that, it's been a few years and I'd forgotten about this.

they mean it's pretty common to see the less-correct "could care less"

Love it. Flashbacks to CE1 and CE2 (2nd and 3rd grade in the US system) in a French embassy school, simultaneously handling "immersion in real french", "using a fountain pen for th…

additional context from the article regarding that particular statement: "[the statement] was oversimplified... In reality, the tests involved “red teams” of N.S.A. analysts who we…

> New Orleans Unfortunate that we'll lose that one to the ocean in the next 10-50 years.

Friend, you've misunderstood. @abaymado's point was that tier binning people's lives and careers on one or two numbers is an awful approach, and doing it probably produces more poo…

You know what I didn't expect? That I would so well internalize the "big brother is always watching what you click, what you hover, what you rewatch, what you comment on, what you …

I'm genuinely interested in how you approached that kind of situation, then. (And I'm not the commenter who presented what you're saying was a false dilemma)

>I don't see how typing it into a computer is significantly different... I haven't read up on it much myself, but any discussion along the lines of this subthread re: "handwriting …

As someone with attention difficulties who eventually decided to leave uni and pursue another path: I'm saddened that my culture has formed me into a person whose first reaction to…

God, what a great book, imo. My favorite Stephenson novel.

Thanks for this.

Completed the collection in 4h 11m here :) Good job OP! I think the Sunset Boulevard quote is used twice: for 32 and 40.

Thank you for the pointers to all those resources! I spent my childhood in the Kasaï-Oriental - my parents were aid workers - and though I lived through some of the key periods of …

Ah! Looks like Drumeo (part of Musora) uses Soundslice as their transcription tool? The UI of the demos exactly matches what I'm used to seeing in Drumeo.

There's a thing called "Robert's Rules of Order" that lays out a framework for how a group of people with different views can make decisions in an orderly way. It's very widely use…

The more complete version of this line of reasoning is (which I've seen more than once, but no links to hand, sorry) is: After solidly internalizing the messaging of "teen pregnanc…

Disclaimer: I'm not Australian. It'd be a pity to get heated up over a misunderstanding of the Australian election system. OP said (somewhat confusingly I admit): >[Australia has] …

You're misquoting them. They said "it would be fun to see [people I don't like] have their guns cataloged ."

Love it, bookmarked. I first saw this idea at https://jmw.name/projects/linear-clock/ and then later I wrote a TUI version for myself I had tickmarks for stuff (when to go to bed t…

Yep, can confirm. I first used Vue in 2016 to write some simple calculators for my group's use in Eve Online. Without its "progressive" affordances, I don't think I would have gott…

can still use tone indicators though /gen https://toneindicators.carrd.co/

"If a lion could speak, we could not understand him."

That was a great read. Thanks for linking.

>>>>OutOfHere: Proposal: Imprison anyone who performs child circumcision. >>>notmyjob: Even if they don’t [perform circumcision]? You're proposing violence to punish thoughtcrime. …