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ColleenV
ColleenV
03:31
@CowperKettle One of my favorite childhood books... How to eat fried worms
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CroCo
CroCo
what is the meaning of the precarity in this sentence:
Great Twitter Hack exposes the precarity of our online existence
Does it mean "fragile" or "perilous" ?
ColleenV
ColleenV
It means the state of being precarious, or lacking in stability
It’s not a common usage, so I’m guessing some journalist dug deep into their thesaurus
It looks like it is terminology used in sociology maybe? oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100342412
 
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AIQ
AIQ
12:37
What's going on everyone?
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
13:08
@CroCo It can't mean either of those because 1) it'd not an adjective and 2) even "precarious" doesn't mean any of those.
Go with "unpredictably insecure"
@AIQ Exam month
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
13:58
@AIQ The heat wave ended here
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
16:11
Abridged Bible
AIQ
AIQ
17:06
@M.A.R. Good luck with your exams ... they can be a drag sometimes ...
@CowperKettle Oh well that is good. There hasn't been one here in Canada yet ...
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
17:31
@AIQ Where are you in Canada?
Word of the day: beautiful world wars
AIQ
AIQ
@CowperKettle BC
It's warm but not hot ... I am wearing a hoodie and trousers ... people give me weird looks
cause they are in shorts
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
17:55
@AIQ I looked up Vancouver. It has an ideal climate.
Highest ever 35 C, lowest ever 17 C
It's very mild.
We had 39 C three days ago. And in winter we have it down to minus 30 for a couple of days.
AIQ
AIQ
Well where I am now it's only 14 degrees
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
January 20 to February 20 is the worstest perod, with sometimes weeks upon weeks of minus 20 °C
AIQ
AIQ
That is quite warm to many Canadians ...
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
I love +14C, an ideal temperature for jogging and bicycling
AIQ
AIQ
Yeah ... but I feel that there isn't enough humidity here in Canada for me
Summer is very dryyy
like my skin will have this burning sensation
the air is dry
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:15
nods

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