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#ActuallyAutistic, AD(H)D, and oh good, early onset dementia now too, so if I misunderstand you, I'm sorry.
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I swear to god I remember a news story about how one experienced interrogator went to Guantanamo and got some extremely important bits of information they'd previously been unable to "extract" by giving prisoners chocolate chip cookies.
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Right. I didn't have the characters to include that, and you had already said it. In my metaphor, masks are the fences. Sorry if it came out jumbled.
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Oh I'd be happy to take his money. But not for campaigning; to redistribute it forcibly.
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It will if you replace your meat with ice cream, your vegetables with fruit topping, your sauce with chocolate, and your heat with cold.
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Yup. And thinking there was no opposition means thinking they're the first to try a tactic of opposition that hasn't worked, but that they don't know hasn't worked. Solving a problem usually involves trial and error, which doesn't work when previous trials are erased from memory.
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It's a little reminiscent of the time people finally listened to Cosby's victims after Hannibal Buress talked about it on stage during a comedy show, but ten million times worse.
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Me going through everything "some" word like "No, that's too many letters. Some... thin's? Somewhere? Somehow? Sometimes?"
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I did that, but it took me a second to remember that "somebody" is a word, so my first guess was "something's watching me."
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"In my day, if you cared about the most optimal route, you figured it out yourself and made your passengers miserable about it, kid!"
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Searching reddit for this post just so I can answer yes, yes, yes, yes, not very, and wut?
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That was my thought, too. With my mental illness issues, certain things will severely mess me up emotionally all day or even cause me distress forever, and the solution is to learn how to effectively mute words. There are several easily mute-able words here that aren't those hashtags.
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Much like the Marvel movies, Ive opted to not watch it but follow and be friends with a bunch of people who do obsessively and talk about bits of it all the time without context, then feel really lost and (in the case of Marvel) left out or (in the case of the government) vaguely afraid all the time
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According to Wikipedia, 9th century
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I want to know, too
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HOW? Were they making Haribo and edibles in the same factory? Or did, like, an employee dump a bunch in the mix, either because they were disgruntled, had a bizarre plot, or thought it would be extremely funny? This doesn't seem like the kind of thing that could happen by accident.
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The program was a success. There are seven islands off the coast of Maine where nesting has been established, the only place in the continental US where they can be observed.
Article (from 2007) is here:
www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna20462...
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Falling while high is pretty plausible, but there are sooooo many people who want to punch him, including in his personal social and professional circle.
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YAY!!!!!!!
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"Having a laugh" by making women feel like they can't do anything safely anywhere
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This notion of basically "nothing you can do matters" being injected into the discussion feels very suspicious.
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Writing electeds is effective sometimes, too. Posting is discussion. How are people within leftism, especially those new to it, supposed to learn about leftism if they don't read and have discussion. This sounds like people who believe minds can't be changed, in which case, what do they suggest?
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Since we're dealing with all villains, this subplot feels like the beginning of their downfall
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So the plan really is to try to make it all one state? Obviously it's all ridiculous, but the "one huge state" thing is particularly silly to me. I don't know why that one stands out.
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This is like the airline thing someone else was talking about earlier, where they deliberately make customers as miserable as possible so you have to pay extra to get out of misery. It's like holding normal functionality hostage and I won't be surprised if they start doing it with non-AI.
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I'm all about standardization for simplicity. Once we adopt the word, I want to end the plural with an s, even if it's from Old English. Paninas, deers, gooses, childs, indexes, crisiseses...
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Bull snakes are so adorably grumpy.
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I might be wrong. There are a bunch of varieties of hydrangea and this one isn't an exact match for any I can find, but it's close to some varieties and I can't find any other plant similar to it.
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Those might be hydrangeas? If so, next year you might have spectacular gobs of flowers, and can control the color (pink, purple, blue, or mixed) with fertilizer type.
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Big difference between wanting good jobs and thinking all jobs should be reserved for your demographic and no one else
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A subset of bigots are going to burst into flames trying to decide whether to support this series because the proceeds go to materially harming trans people, or be angry it exists because changing the race of previously white characters is one of the greatest outrages they can imagine.
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Never underestimate how much spite drives my choices
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On the plus side it's always awesome to discover an old band with an existing catalog of material like it's new.
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Paninos or gtfo
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(Massively hoping I don't sound aggressive/argumentative here)
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Queer/trans culture's usage of "diva" aside, English not being gendered means we don't have to obey gendering in loan words, anyway.