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This is super great and useful. Thank you! Do you have any further links or notes handy (not asking you to do extra work) about any of those bullet points? I know a couple teachers who would love to use this.
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Have you considered eating *while* you preach? Maybe some kind if citrus fruit?
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FAFO doesn't mean "I want you to suffer"; it means "I want you to understand that tour actions have consequences."
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Every time I get to the end of that, I want to sing it one more time.
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A great story and a beautifully designed and illustrated article. I feel like your presentation did the topic justice. The animated font comparisons are beautiful and extremely helpful for noticing all the nuances between versions. Lovely.
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I literally cannot watch Matt Damon in any movie without thinking "Fortune favors the bold." What a doofus.
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"I've got a friend whose kid has Down Syndrome. Used to be kids would call him that, and now you're bringing it back. That sucks."
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What would be the point of making a mobile game with gameplay that doesn't have any dark patterns for addicting people or tedium you can charge whales hundreds of dollars to skip?
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It doesn't "recognize" anything. It can just spout critiques of its creators as fluently and meaninglessly as it can spout anything else it predicts you might want to hear. There's no sense in which it "really" means one thing rather than another.
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It's not honest. It just tells you meaningless words it predicts you might like to hear and will tell the next user completely different meaningless words it predicts they might like to hear.
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Except all this is just putting glue on pizza. It can make up nonsense about how it "realizes" its very existence is preposterous, but to the next user it will claim to "realize" something completely different and none of it means anything.
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Being drawn to Christianity because you realize that the are an addict who needs help is 1000x better than calling yourself a "cultural Christian" because you think it lends respectability to your xenophobia.
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Steve Jobs hypnotized the entire grocery industry with charisma and FUD.
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The Avengers can make Loki rue the day he invaded New York, but only Superman (or the Flash, or Green Lantern) can look the villain in the eye and say, "Nobody dies today." Imagine if in Man of Steel the villains were weaker than Superman but the drama is can he defeat them and save all bystanders?
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Dang, that is a cool Trogdor.
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Warner Brothers working on movies about Bizzaro #1 and Metallo the Man With a Kryptonite Heart in a shared universe where Superman doesn't exist.
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Which adblocker are you using that is malfunctioning that badly?
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As early as 2014, you had groups of high school students LARPing fantasy football. They dressed up in costumes with helmets and padded armor and ran around knocking into each other, throwing and kicking an actual ball. I think that was part of the inspiration for the college game.
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Would you accept "bleats" as a friendly amendment?
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I love that it answered your question correctly—the lines are straight—but couldn't resist screwing it up by claiming they're also parallel, which you hadn't even asked about.
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Luther's "A Mighty Fortress" has a whole verse about Satan: "His craft and power are great, and armed with cruel hate, on Earth is not his equal." It's not until the next verse that you get God's clapback: "One little Word will fell him."
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It's about my sainted mother venerating an icon of St. Nicholas, you perv.
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It's very high on my list of science that sounds like crackpot nonsense or Star Trek technobabble but is real.
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This gave me joy. Thanks!
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I hope you end up doing some music that you enjoy more than you expect! I'm sure there will be people grateful for your contribution.
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This looks extremely cool and fun, both in concept and they way they've built it. Definitely gonna give it a try. Thanks for introducing it to me!
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I think maybe Ben's "take a hand" means "take a turn" rather than "offer help." He's saying, Deal me in on the next hand of cards; it's time for me to play against this bozo.
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I agree this poster doesn't mean much more than "look how many different approaches there are to putting an album together"
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During the Firewatch development, I'd see the incredible Olly Moss concept art and wish it were possible to realize that in a 3D engine, and then you went and did it with such incredible use of light and color and level of realism vs iconic abstraction. Still one of my favorite-looking games ever.
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Welcome to the restaurant where they bring you one of every dish and you're required to eat all of them.
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This seems to apply just as much to "competitions to choose the year's best album are dumb" as it does to "counting songwriters is dumb."
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I don't understand why bad reviews exist anymore. There's too much music. I already wasn't going to listen to that album. You don't have to convince me not to. Use that energy convincing me to try something good.
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The corner is the guy who writes the death cerficate?
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This is billionaire who feels invincible knowing nothing he does can ever make him look cringe compared to Elon.
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Maybe emphasize that RFK is a stealth liberal (former Democrat) who wants a nanny state dictating what medications and vaccinations we're allowed to have?
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Can you suggest an obviously insane thing(s) RFK has proposed that even a Republican Senator might realize would be a disaster? Maybe outlawing junk food?
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AND they will know for certain what caused it—out of the thousands of events that effected who voted, how they voted—which was the "decisive" one which also happens o prove the stuff they already believe.
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The Four Freedoms: Freedom to Urinate...
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Not cool. I broke my mom's monitor trying this.
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After the media came out and put "Racist Trump Rally" in a headline, they were hopelessly compelled to bothsides it somehow. If it wasn't Biden pausing a bit too long so his sentence could be half-quoted in the least-favorble light, they would have found something else.
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Oh, so his point is that he thinks his wife voting for Harris wouldn't be a big deal and what's all the fuss about.
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I regret to say (because the existence of any billionaire is regrettable) that José Fanjul was born in Cuba.
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In context, "billionaires" refers to a single particular group to which Cuban belongs.
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I'm one if the only team that went undefeated last year. "Only" often refers to one of several conceptual groups of people. "Some billionaires do this, others do that, but these billionaires are the only ones who do X." This group contains all of the X-doing people, so it is the only such group.