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I need minors to learn how to lie online again. Your name is Derek, you’re 25 and work in accounting now. Please for your own safety learn how to fucking lie. And if you don’t want to lie, then don’t put your age anywhere. Don’t even say whether you’re a minor or not. It is perfectly easy to avoid adult spaces without signposting that you are doing so because you’re a child.

Stating your age doesn’t protect you this only makes you a target.

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How well do you see color?

I’m cry I scored 60, I feel blind

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I like this style a lot! Does anyone know what it’s called?

The surname 永井 is usually read Nagai, possibly/rarely Nakai. It belongs to about 142,000 people.

永 means eternity, long, or lengthy (for time; for distance or physical length, use 長). It’s read が.い or エイ.

井 means well (like well water) or community. It’s read い, セイ, or ショウ.

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you guys have got to get better at spellcasting any time someone's attempted to curse me with 10k note post it gets like 50 at most. back to the spell books buddy that one might be too advanced for you try learning some cantrips first

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Choice of Games titles in the Steam Winter Sale!

Winter has come around - very fast, it feels like!

Titles from Choice of Games, Heart's Choice, and Hosted Games are on sale on Steam, including my and my wife's games...

Crème de la Crème (39% off): Climb to the very top of the class at your exclusive private school for socialites! Will you study hard, find a perfect match, or embrace scandal? A 440,000 word interactive novel.

Noblesse Oblige (40% off): Spark romance amid secrets in a crumbling mansion! What will you sacrifice for love? Can you trust your own heart? A 180,000 interactive gothic novella.

Royal Affairs (39% off): At your exclusive boarding school, will you rule the roost or be a royal disaster? Court publicity, sway the fate of nations, and find love! A 440,000 word interactive novel.

Blood Money (29% off): By the power of your blood, you and your ghosts will take over your crime family! A 290,000 word standalone dark fantasy interactive novel.

Heart of Battle (29% off): Battle for love as a gladiator in this epic romance! Win glory, victory, a better life - or spark a revolution! A 220,000 word interactive novel by Fay Ikin.

Asteroid Run: No Questions Asked (29% off): captain a freighter across the Solar System and keep your mystery cargo and your crew safe in the face of corruption, cultists, and revolutionaries! A 325,000 word interactive novel by Fay Ikin.

And while you're on Steam, do check out Honor Bound - and rate and review if you enjoyed it!

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Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.

Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.

Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭

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"how to prevent smile lines" there are a thousand more important things to do with your time than postpone evidence of life's joy on your face

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americans: pssshh you think 80°F is hot???? i'm from big texas this is nothing kid, i might put a coat on actually

europeans: wdym 10°C is cold???? this is shorts weather bro, when you start pissing crystals then we'll talk

unattended raspberries: i went moldy while you were reading this

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William Labov, one of the single most influential linguists to date, passed away yesterday at the age of 97. His foundational work in sociolinguistics has rippled throughout the modern field. Virtually every working linguist today owes some debt to him for shaping not only our research but also a culture of kind and earnest inquiry. His legacy will continue to define linguistics as a discipline.

I never had the honor of knowing Dr. Labov, but I'm sharing here some tributes and remembrances from his colleagues.

Cynthia McLemore and Mark Liberman (Language Log)

Josef Fruehwald (Væl Space)

Betsy Sneller (Bluesky)

May his memory be a blessing.

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from my linguistics

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academic who writes a paper and just puts "credit to original author :)" for all their citations

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I'm just saying, "We created a computer to make decisions for us, but it assimilated all of the bias that was implicit in the dataset and now makes incredibly racist decisions that we don't question because computers are logical and don't make mistakes" literally sounds like a planet-of-the-week morality play on the original Star Trek.

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*struggles while writing* i suck and writing is hard

*remembers some ppl use ai* i am a creative force. i am uncorrupted by theft and indolence. i am on a journey to excellence. it is my duty to keep taking joy in creating.

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the age-old question: "is my beloved mutual in a totally different time zone to me or do they just have a terrible sleep schedule"

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For those not in the know, this is one of the Amanita mushrooms referred to as a Destroying Angel. Never, ever, ever, ever forage with an app. Especially for mushrooms.

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'People are panicking about AI tools the same way they did when the calculator was invented, stop worrying' cannot stress enough the calculator did not forcibly pervade every aspect of our lives, has such a low error rate it's a statistical anomaly when it does happen, isn't built on mass plagiarism, and does not obliterate the fucking environment when you use it. Be so fucking serious right now