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Not for the faint of heart or those easily triggered by English (or other languages) in the raw. That doesn't mean we want to talk about YouTube comments or hemorrhoids or other such topics.
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Cerberus
Sep 5, 2024 04:29
@Alexander I don't want to see glorification of your own murder of civilians here, "we are happy we murdered a civilian" is not acceptable.
Mitch
Sep 5, 2024 02:40
@Vikas I was making nonsense out of the sounds b,d,n,g that you used and in the message you replied to.(I kind of thought that's what you were doing too though)
jlliagre
Mar 2, 2024 01:01
Stack Overflow turns to Google for hosting and AI features, trusts in Gemini for tech answers
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jlliagre
May 24, 2024 08:28
@user85795 What can a 87-yo pope know about boxing?
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Lambie
May 23, 2024 15:22
I wonder who is systematically dredging up questions from years ago.
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Cerberus
Sep 1, 2024 21:51
@alphabet It is always nice to talk to someone who speaks well. It is just much less important in many positions, but it is always a positive.
M.A.R.
May 21, 2024 02:37
@Mitch I think the first step would always have been about preventing Israel from treating Palestinians like vermin to be exterminated. Political solutions have been impossible for as long as I remember because 1) they're not even popular among either of the peoples and 2) Palestinians recently haven't had people who they could call their representatives
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Cerberus
Aug 31, 2024 05:02
Only drenched two or three shirts last night.
Mitch
May 17, 2024 22:09
@alphabet See! Toe is a digit and two is a digit. La preuve!
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Mitch
May 17, 2024 21:50
@Robusto I should have expected that from your inner восемь-year old.
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Robusto
May 17, 2024 21:47
tween
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CowperKettle
May 17, 2024 21:11
Word of the night: hasht-behesht
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CowperKettle
Aug 29, 2024 02:03
You can get in jail for a t-shirt with a peace sign, but you can buy dexamethasone easily at any pharmacy
Mitch
Aug 28, 2024 22:16
And they put fluoride and prozac in the water coolers so all their employees are happy and you know it.
MetaEd
Feb 16, 2024 18:56
I see this catchphrase "tu dolor es verme" on pickup trucks and memes ... I imagine what Google Translate offers for the English equivalent falls a bit short. Anybody understand what it's really about?
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Mitch
Aug 26, 2024 15:05
@Robusto Wisconsin Pradesh
MetaEd
Feb 12, 2024 18:55
"Ducharme's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem."
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tchrist
Aug 25, 2024 16:50
> And they departed to a distant shore;
But wheresoe'er they dwelt, however lone,
Shame, like a marble statue at his door,
Flung her 'thwart shadow o'er his threshold stone;
Still darken'd all their daylight hours, and kept
Cold watch above them even while they slept.
Mitch
May 7, 2024 16:08
@CowperKettle > Once, I told a chemistry joke. There was no reaction.
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tchrist
Aug 22, 2024 14:09
I still think the verb should be dwarve. :)
Mitch
Aug 21, 2024 19:57
@alphabet to be blunt, those close voters have a great tendency to VTC directly out of the own ignorance,
Mitch
Aug 30, 2023 14:43
Horseshit is subtly different from bullshit.
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MetaEd
May 3, 2024 20:46
"Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good."
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alphabet
Aug 19, 2024 23:29
Word of the day: aircrafts. The nonstandard regularized plural has shown up in news articles, even one from the Times's "The Athletic." Ngram suggests it may be catching on, though it's still very rare.
Laurel
Jan 29, 2024 13:22
Wasn't this graph posted to this chat? imgur.com/gallery/pudl7bJ
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MetaEd
Apr 30, 2024 16:57
"Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (Men willingly believe what they wish.) ---Julius Caesar
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Cerberus
Apr 30, 2024 04:33
@alphabet I think it is best to let go of the idea that what most pages on the Internet have is the best way to use a word.
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alphabet
Apr 27, 2024 16:30
Word of the day: mischievous. Dictionaries still insist that the more common (or even the only) pronunciation is /-vəs/, but (from a cursory examination on YouGlish) the /-viəs/ pronunciation is clearly more common even in very formal contexts, and even the spelling with "-vious" is fairly widespread.
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M.A.R.
Aug 16, 2024 10:36
@sanya sorry, this is not the appropriate venue for this.
M.A.R.
Apr 25, 2024 19:42
The Iranian rial is worth less than oats, or human life.
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CowperKettle
Aug 15, 2024 09:42
I'm using Windows for Workgroups 3.11
CowperKettle
Aug 15, 2024 09:42
Smooth sailing thus far
Mitch
Apr 22, 2024 18:56
Only if those three guys are actively involved in the meta question -and- convinced that they should stop over-closing stuff will there be any change.
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CowperKettle
Aug 13, 2024 02:07
He's had several uretheral obstructions already, so it's a preventive measure
Mitch
Jan 16, 2024 17:13
People should just be more lenient, more tolerant. Maybe you (I mean EA, FF, etc) don't like it or are too smart for it, but let other people answer it. There's room for everything.
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Robusto
Jan 15, 2024 02:10
No self-respecting cat would be so linear.
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Mitch
Apr 19, 2024 02:47
Maybe he should consider trying to control his libido rather than expose it to everyone.
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user223626865
Aug 2, 2023 08:39
“All of us want to be completely alive, to live one hundred percent in the present moment. What prevents us? More urgently, how can we bring about such a state of mind?
The great American psychologist [William James] gives us a clue in a quotation I found in a most unexpected place, Vogue magazine. This is a direct quotation: ‘The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. An education which should include this faculty would be the education par excellence.’
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jlliagre
Aug 1, 2023 16:08
Unrelated to the interesting topic about pee-pee and wee-wee respective meanings a few days ago, Pee-Wee Herman passed away yesterday.
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alphabet
Apr 17, 2024 01:38
Did you know that, in seven Native American languages, the word for "raccoon" is derived from the word for "magic"?
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M.A.R.
Aug 10, 2024 03:08
@CowperKettle it's never as simple as that. You can't ask people not to ostracize someone whose views they no longer find insightful.
Mitch
Aug 9, 2024 21:03
A handful of Bruins fans from Southie swinging baseball bats.
Mitch
Aug 9, 2024 19:33
@jlliagre nice finally someone from France who doesn't fart for a living.
Mitch
Aug 8, 2024 15:42
"What is 2+2?" "That's an interesting question! (I am not a chatbot). Most people think they know the answer, but really you shouldn't bother with environments and just delete python entirely and install the version you want".
Robusto
Aug 8, 2024 15:34
Uh, actually it would be uh-actuallying.
Robusto
Jan 6, 2024 16:30
@Řídící I'd use by, but you can get by without it.
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jlliagre
Apr 11, 2024 01:24
The eclipse was extra long at home. It started when the Sun was occluded by the horizon and ended Tuesday at daybreak.
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CowperKettle
Apr 10, 2024 08:20
> Harvard University honesty researcher Francesca Gino, whose work has come under fire for suspected data falsification, may also have plagiarized passages in some of her high-profile publications.
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M.A.R.
Aug 5, 2024 16:54
He's one of the most useful dead people to know.
Mitch
Apr 9, 2024 17:54
@Robusto Easy for you to say. I've been hallucinating since I showed up here.
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