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one of the most challenging skills i've had to learn as an adult is the art of figuring out whether i'm proportionally annoyed with someone or just tired and overstimulated and looking for reasons to be pissed off

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impostor syndrome is a common problem in academia. For example my colleagues keep putting me in the airlock and ejecting me into space

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went to the grocery store today and i was very pleased by their pride cake selections

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“who is linkin park?” - one shot KO by my younger coworker

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My friend blocked me because I wouldn’t stop sending him this picture

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If you want a good object lesson about what we can and can't know about the past, we don't know Ea-Nasir was a dishonest merchant selling shoddy goods.

What we know is we have found a cache of complaint tablets about him selling low quality copper as high quality, in a site that was probably his own residence. We know multiple people complained he was a cheat. It's entirely possible they were right. It's also entirely possible that he kept these complaint letters as records of people he would no longer do business with, because they had made accusations and threats in order to bully him into giving them free copper. That is an equally valid interpretation of the evidence.

My point is not that we have maligned Ea-Nasir, my point is that thousands of years later, we do not and cannot know.

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it would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. the advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though and their definitions of family and friendly are absolutely fucked. but since they're in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. tiktokers say things like "unalive" and "seggs" because they know death and sex are too adult for online. online is for idiot babies only now because they're easier to market to

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re: the heat intolerance thing - sertraline can also cause/exacerbate heat intolerance, for what it's worth. i'm on it as well and recently got my dosage upped and now can't stand to be outside if it's above 80°. if you're noticing any lightheadedness/syncope (loss of vision/"greying out")/headache/etc that may point to a cardiovascular issue, but consuming more salt or electrolytes can help reduce the more unpleasant symptoms that come with the heat 👍

i've been wondering about that too! thank you for the tip!

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andy, through the earpiece, obnoxiously slurping a baja blast: ask him about the machete nile: machete??! nicky: hm? oh yeah here you go :)

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Given how two Boeing whistleblowers have died mysteriously under completely different circumstances, I think it's time we considered the possibility that Mr. Hands wasn't an accident, and Boeing took him out for what he knew.

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Hey shout out to every custodial/sanitation worker taking out and cleaning up literal hot garbage so that the rest of us can go about our summer days like it doesn’t exist

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wait am i reading this right. google's AI is trained on reporting about how bad it is. which means....

(from the verge)

trolling is back babey! awooga! time to post that bitcoin is crashing enough times until it actually does

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the cultural boogeyman of the faker is such a convenient lie for ableism. Waste your time fighting about who does and does not deserve help, and maybe you wont realizes that there was never any help to begin with. The is no epidemic of malingerers taking up resources they don't need, there is a lack of resources for disabled people

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not asking which one is correct, asking which one of these you PERSONALLY have the most beef with. this may be because it's Objectively The Most Wrong or because it's only kind of wrong but it's kind of wrong a LOT.

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My redesign hot take is that if you’re aiming to “desexualize” a female character, don’t make her boobs smaller. You’re implying a lot here.