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clearly, you haven't considered that these fish would have no previous conception of an apple, leading to a sharper contrast and much less of a distinction, linguistically. I will now go pat myself on the back until I eventually realize fish don't think in english.

Throwing an apple from an offshore oilrig

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I think you might have to get the entire tech industry right now while you're at it..

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bad circulation gang rise up!!!

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unavoidable that you will be the villain in someone else's story. You will be painted in an unfavorable light. You will be the irredeemable one. and all of this will happen despite how nice you might usually be or how kind or how respectful or how warm. and you will just have to move on.

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Straight trans girl problems: your Navy reserve officer boyfriend murders you because his friends saw you together at Olive Garden

Gay trans girl problems: your ex-partner and rapist Sock has convinced everyone in your city that you are a racist pedophile

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Its fascinating that the way advertizing and apps work right now is simply how computer viruses, adware, spyware, and all manners of malware has ALWAYS worked. Growing up as a teen in the 2000s there used to be a program called Weatherbug that was pretty much considered unthinkable to ever have installed because of the way it knew your location and essentially EVERY adware, spyware, and antivirus software flagged it for removal immediately. It was considered best practice to never install anything. Never install toolbars, mever install anything without consulting a professional or unless you were ad advanced user. I was trained in Comptia A+ for the windows xp era and the best practice as a repair tech was to never allow the customer to install anything themselves if it could be helped.

And now just. Everything does this. Your fucking calculator wants your location data and business ghouls want it to ve illegal to use a simple adblocker because not advertizing to you hurts their feelings.

And now we have generative AI filling the internet witg slop that can have SEO and more ads slapped on top of it? Google is breaking on purpose so you make more searches?

The viruses have won, everything is malware and everything is a scam. To use commercial tech is to be voluntarily mugged

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i love parking my car perfectly and beautifully and correctly with plenty of space between the lines and then coming back and still having to squeeze my fat ass into it like a boba through a bendy straw because someone parked their oversized Daddy’s Special Boy-mobile a smooth 6 inches from my goddamn door

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My neighbour had had one of those roll-away dumpsters on his lawn for awhile. In case you're unfamiliar, people often have a lot of trash generated from home renovation projects. They do not want to drive to the dump constantly to throw this stuff out. Instead, you can call someone who comes and drops a dumpster on your driveway, and then when it's full, you can call them again to get it picked up and taken to the dump. The very icon itself of suburban make-it-someone-else's-problemism.

People get really mad when you throw garbage into a dumpster that you didn't pay for. For instance, the local Tim Hortons has put up threatening signs falsely claiming that they have security cameras pointing at the bins at all times. This might be because I once disposed of an entire Subaru EJ25 engine and slightly dented 4-speed automatic transmission, along with most of its fluid, into their dumpster. If you ask me, this is just whining, because that stuff was all made out of aluminum and shouldn't have counted too far on their weight limit anyway.

And yet, I don't want to drive to the dump. Partially, this is because of the exorbitant dump fees: in an attempt at "greening," or more likely to not have so many dumbasses coming to throw out a single tire, they charge a minimum of thirty bucks to throw out anything under a hundred kilos of crap.

Thirty bucks! I can buy a lot of cool junk for that. And they don't even let you take old bicycles out of the garbage pile for that money to try and recoup your cost. Once, I saw a dirt bike, and they wouldn't let me take it. It became a whole thing, which is the main reason I can't go to the dump anymore: they have my picture posted everywhere. So borrowing my neighbour's dumpster is the next best thing.

Here's the tactic you want to use: watch the bin for a few weeks. Check what days there's a lot of stuff being thrown out. These things naturally ebb and flow. There will be an initial burst of enthusiasm as they rip their kitchen to bits, being replaced with a crushing realization that they have ripped their kitchen to bits. It's during that lull that you throw your shit into the dumpster, and cover it up with construction debris from the previous effort. Demoralized, the homeowner won't look in their bin for at least another week, until they are forced to finish the job or hire someone competent to do so, who will start refilling the bin again.

Or, you can do what I did, which is wait for the truck that picks up the dumpster to show up. While the operator is busy loading it up, you throw your stuff into the bin and drive away as fast as you can. The neighbour can't get mad, because the pickup's already been paid for: you're just extracting some extra value from it. The driver can't chase you, because he has a dumpster full of your old shocks and axles halfway loaded onto his truck. And the cops can't get you for illegal dumping, because it sounds like a whole bunch of paperwork and to be honest they're probably too busy arresting folks who start a fistfight at the dump over a pretty sweet dirt bike.

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sɯ̆rʲɛ̃ːɲˈʨaːn̪ɔ̆ ˈɱaːˀt̪͡θʲiːre ʥiːn̪ʲœ̆ ... ʋɪ̆ceˈraːˀ

surẹntjạ̀no mạ̃þịre dịnë.. vikerạ̃

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surẹntjạ̀no mạ̃þịre dịnë.. vikerạ̃

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I need to internalise this

stop freaking out about getting old and start planning out what kind of old person you're gonna be

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if you were trapped in a time loop how many repetitions do you think it would take for you to willingly kill another person, knowing there would be no consequences

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so many trans girls who are owed infinite apologies for the way their community tried to kill them over kinks that are largely pretty accepted now.

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I feel like people really underestimate the impact that your mode of transportation has on how you see and think about and interact with your city. Like, driving makes your city feel like a few islands, pockets of space where you regularly go and new ones you discover only when brought there for a purpose, but all amidst an ocean of just, filler. Taking public transit makes your city feel like a network of corridoors, a glowing grid along which you may discover new things, but whose alternate winding paths you only take when given to by circumstance. Cycling makes your city feel more human in its scale, and while you can only go so far, the spaces through which you travel are far more often built for people, not machines, and that difference is tangible, while your freedom of movement gives you more opportunities for exploration. Walking can only take you so far, but you see everything meant for you along those places, and every street feels like it carries potential, with no barriers to stopping and partaking of whatever piques your interest. I think, among these, driving is the one that by far most isolates you from the place you live, while the others are, in decreasing order, most utilitarian, and in increasing order, most personally connective to your shared space.

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Huh, why does it look as if there was more militarized police at Columbia Uni than there was at the Jan 6 Capitol Riots? What so you mean SWAT was present??

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White Mississippi, the Dixie heartland of slavery and segregation rises again for a new cause.

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Golgolĩ /ɣɔɫɣɔʎiːˀ/ : To speak (from proto-slavic; imperative 2nd person)

Read right-to-left:

Glo(săs): from Ustã (mouth, throat) plus a dash for sound to form "voice"

Go(rã): semantically means "mountain forest" and would normally be used for its stressed syllable or full name, but is marked for the first phonetic syllable, being used as "go"

Lĩ(ti): means "to pour" but is being used as a phonetic component for "lĩ"

This is only one way of writing this word.. a more "accurate" version would add a doubling symbol to "gol" and then suffix it with the conjugation.

conlang doodle dump!