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  • Ah, finally, we can figure out what Cicero is talking about!

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  • Something something German lecturer after two hours twelve verbs at the end finally understood the whole lecture.

  • What's your hyperfixation song?

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  • Thomas Dolby, I Love You Goodbye.

  • Can you read and understand this passage?

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  • Thanks for that. Indeed, that makes me less confident in their suitability to teach those subjects, but I worry about a sensational conclusion about their general literacy.

  • Can you read and understand this passage?

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  • I would want to repeat that study with novels written in the past 25 years before concluding too much. Yes, the participants had access to a dictionary, but I imagine that needing to decipher certain parts, such as foreign cultural references and familiar words with unexpected meanings, interferes with the brain's usual functions for turning words into images in the mind's eye. And this even ignores the folks with aphantasia like me.

  • Can you read and understand this passage?

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  • Yes, although I'm struck by some of the words, particularly this sense of "wonderful".

    And now I'm even more glad that it's sunny out here right now and I can hear birds.

  • Math question, plz halp

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  • What do you know about Mersenne numbers?

  • What's your hot sauce of choice?

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  • Maritime Madness, Candied Habanero or Lime Cilantro.

  • Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants

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  • Good news! Just drive it and wait a few minutes.

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  • Political discussions online rarely lead to satisfying resolutions. As a result, political discussions bleed into everyday discussion in the desperate hope that something, somewhere, will magically make sense.

    Similarly, when businesses have meetings that don't actually resolve matters, every meeting becomes a desperate chance to discuss things that matter in the hopes they'll be resolved, so then every meeting that needs to happen will happen during every scheduled meeting, even wrhb ostensibly unrelated. This continues until meeting culture changes and even overall communication culture changes.

    It seems natural and reasonable in such an environment for many people (like you) to want to disengage. Why continue doing something that never seems to lead to resolution?

  • He's just playing the meowno

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  • She lay

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  • I am quite familiar with the verbs. Thanks.

    My original joke was based on the assumption that "She lay" was intended to be in the present tense (and why wouldn't it be?) and therefore a humorous use of colloquial English (in place of "she lays", possibly invoking African American English for humorous effect. We can argue about whether this is culturally sensitive.). The corresponding correction would therefore be "She lie", rather than the grammatically standard "She lies".

  • Trump appoints Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as top prosecutor in DC

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  • I find your moderation decision in this case quite cowardly. Yes, I read the rules.

  • Sneaky sneaky

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  • "snuck" is perfectly fine, as long as that's what you've heard since birth. 🤷

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  • You did it. Count me among the folks who would reply to you.

  • Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made

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  • Boo.

  • Trump appoints Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as top prosecutor in DC

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  • This exactly is my point.

    Yes, we can't identify which grain of sand makes it a beach, and yet it eventually becomes a beach.

  • She lay

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  • Yes. It didn't sound past tense in my head, but that certainly fits.

    And no: "she lie" would be a colloquial present tense assuming that "she lay" was a similar colloquial conjugation of the verb "to lay" as commonly used in place of "to lie".

  • Python Decorators Considered Harmful

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  • "X Considered Harmful" considered harmful.

  • Trump appoints Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as top prosecutor in DC

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