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Or baloney, for that matter.
Look how they screwed up "Monkey Kong" into "Donkey Kong" ... hey, close enough for rock'n'roll.
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I wonder if this is some specialized school, or just any ordinary school
> The Song is called Ndikhokhele Bawo. It roughly translates to "Guide me, O Lord". It's based on Psalm 23 in the Xhosa language. The word "Bawo" that they are repeating is the most formal word for "Father".
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The FBI–King suicide letter or blackmail package was an anonymous 1964 letter and package by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) meant to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. The suicide letter was part of the FBI's COINTELPRO operation against King. == History == On November 21, 1964, a package that contained the letter and a tape recording allegedly of King's sexual indiscretions was delivered to King's address. Although the letter was anonymously written, Martin Luther King Jr. correctly suspected the FBI sent the package. Coretta Scott King said the tapes comprised only "mumbo jumbo". The...
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@Robusto Atomics would seem extremely unlikely unless the existence of Israel were threatened.
Which it will not be.
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@Cerberus How would nuclear weapons even help in this sort of conflict, as compared to heavy usage of conventional weapons? A thinly dispersed insurgent network can't be taken out by nuking (say) a city center. There's no complex of military buildings labelled "Hamas HQ, please do not bomb," akin to (say) the DC area in the US.
At best, it would "work" by depopulating and destroying the entire strip. Israel might want that, but they wouldn't want to make it obvious that that's the goal.
Now that I think about it: there's actually a much more obvious problem, one that's specific to Gaza.
@alphabet Exactly this.
The Gaza strip is 6km-12km wide. A nuclear weapon can create 1st-degree burns and significant damage at a radius of ~4-5km. That doesn't allow much of a margin for error or precision targeting.
The discussion was about achieving 'complete victory' over Hamas.
If you destroy all buildings in Gaza, eventually Hamas will end.
That is, you can't destroy all walls using atomics unless you use a huge number, which I'm not sure even Russia has; but you can make it impossible to live there.
Case in point: per Nukemap a Nagasaki-sized nuclear bomb dropped on Gaza city would cause 1st-degree burns to people within Israel.
Oh, that's not so bad.
02:52
It would kill or injure roughly 16% of Gaza's population. Assuming that that includes 16% of Hamas, it seems like this wouldn't even leave Hamas destroyed. Insurgent groups can survive even if you take out a fair percentage of their members.
No, you'd need a lot of atomics.
Presumably, if it turns into an insurgency, Hamas leadership wouldn't be concentrated in Gaza City. It isn't like in the US, where by nuking DC you could take out a disproportionate percentage of the military leadership.
Sure, and it is mired with tunnels and underground bunkers.
You can't actually kill Hamas leaders that way.
And if Hamas leadership were concentrated, using conventional weapons (as Israel is doing now) would seem to be a much better choice, since it would allow more precise targeting.
But, if not a single building is functional any more, Hamas can't function any more either.
02:56
Anyway, this is the problem with using nuclear weapons against an insurgent group. They aren't very effective against those sorts of targets, unless your goal is just to kill an entire region's population.
Exactly.
@Cerberus An insurgent group generally doesn't have a fixed headquarters. If it does, you could take it out with conventional weapons.
Which is why I do not see how or why Israel would use them.
@alphabet Sure, but it's not about their headquarters.
The leaders can function underground.
But not indefinitely without a functional city on top.
They don't really need to be in a city. I don't think the Taliban insurgency had much control over major city centers until the very end, and they still defeated the entire US military.
To be clear: Israel can, and likely will, gain control of the Gaza's territory. Eradicating Hamas and ending a potential insurgency is a different matter entirely.
Who knows exactly what Netanyahu's endgame is here.
Local Hero Rescues Food Waste Destined for Landfill
Word of the day: disaster gay. Defined by Urban Dictionary as "Being gay (or part of lgbt+ community) while also being a mess, whether it be mental, physical, spiritual, social, or a combination."
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@alphabet Gaza is different: there isn't much else. It's tiny. No mountains to hide in, no Pakistan to be supplied from and hide in.
@alphabet I honestly doubt whether Israel will gain full control of Gaza. Urban warfare is extremely lethal, slow, and destructive.
@alphabet Hmm that doesn't sound very hopeful.
Didn't HAMAS know what will happen?
I think they did.
And they believe Israel cannot realistically conquer Gaza.
> Researchers at UCL Institute for Neurology utilized AI tools to analyze speech patterns, revealing that schizophrenia patients exhibit unpredictable word selection tied to cognitive map disorganization. theinnovativehorizon.com/post/…
"Edited by György Buzsáki" -- I know that name, he is a brain oscillations guru.
György Buzsáki (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbuʒaːki ˈɟørɟ]; born November 24, 1949, Kaposvár, Hungary) is the Biggs Professor of Neuroscience at New York University School of Medicine. == Education == Buzsáki completed his M.D. in 1974 at the University of Pécs in Hungary, and obtained his PhD in neuroscience under the supervision of Endre Grastyán. == Work == Buzsáki's primary interests is "neural syntax", i.e., how segmentation of neural information is organized by the numerous brain rhythms to support cognitive functions. He identified the cellular-synaptic basis of hippocampal theta,...
03:39
From NYT:
> Israel’s military has informed the United Nations that the entire population of northern Gaza should relocate to the southern half of the territory within 24 hours
> such a movement — involving over one million people — would lead to “devastating humanitarian consequences.”
Google will now generate images if you type "draw this or that" into the search line: blog.google/products/search/…
Just evacuate a million people in one day with no plans for where they'll go. Sure. That'll go smoothly.
The UK relocated 350 thousand soldiers from the beaches quickly in 1940
Today is Friday the 13th
> After finding helpful ideas across the web and contractors you’d like to get in touch with, you can ask SGE to “Write a note to a contractor asking for a quote to turn my garage into a home office.”
Google will also create texts.
Write a shakespearean sonnet to my contractor, asking for a discount of 5%.
I wonder if there's already a voice-operated mp3 player for a smartphone, so you don't have to manually switch between folders while jogging, say.
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@alphabet Israel knows this is not possible.
It's just an excuse for more bombing and ground forces going to the north, probably.
@Cerberus Yes. It's a way of being able to say "If civilians get killed, it's their fault for not evacuating"
@alphabet Yeah.
@Cerberus I consider myself 50% reclusive introvert, 50% disaster gay, 100% procyonid
You favour dogs?
Procyonidae () is a New World family of the order Carnivora. It comprises the raccoons, ringtails, cacomistles, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, and olinguitos. Procyonids inhabit a wide range of environments and are generally omnivorous. == Characteristics == Procyonids are relatively small animals, with generally slender bodies and long tails, though the common raccoon tends to be bulky. Because of their general build, the Procyonidae are often popularly viewed as smaller cousins of the bear family. This is apparent in their German names: a raccoon is called a Waschbär (washing bear, as it "washes...
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Ah, I see.
I wonder about the pro.
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Repeating words in answer (88): people that will laugh at anything‭ by Freddy‭ on english.SE
 
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Moscow police is now raiding the apartments of lawyers who have previously defented Navalny in court cases. They are "under suspicion of taking part in an extremist organization", up to 6 years in jail.
@Cerberus of course, hence the setup for the next conflict is already present.
Etymology of the day: hamartoma. The term "hamartoma" is from the Greek ἁμαρτία, hamartia ("error"), and was introduced by D.P.G. Albrecht in 1904.
Eugen Albrecht (21 June 1872, in Sonthofen – 18 June 1908, in Frankfurt am Main) was a German pathologist. His research largely dealt with the physical-chemical status of cells under normal and pathological conditions.In 1895 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Munich, where he was a student of Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer. Afterwards, he was an assistant to Wilhelm Roux at the institute of anatomy in Halle, followed by work at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples (1897–98). In 1899 he became an assistant to Otto Bollinger at the institute of pathology in Munich. From 1900 to 1904...
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La petite vieille qui me surveille toute la journée à sa fenêtre
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@CowperKettle nice
@CowperKettle if I'm reading it right, this emphasizes the role of study design and the data gathered because of it. If you designed your study about nostril size in cocaine abusers, the data you gather about bloodshot eyes is less reliable.
@CowperKettle Petit vieux/petite vieille are slightly pejorative and normally refer to people, that's part of the joke.
> LES PETITES VIEILLES (Charles Baudelaire)

À VICTOR HUGO


Dans les plis sinueux des vieilles capitales,
Où tout, même l’horreur, tourne aux enchantements,
Je guette, obéissant à mes humeurs fatales,
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Ils rampent, flagellés par les bises iniques,
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> LES PETITS VIEUX (Émile Verhaeren)

En mon pays, au bord d’une route, deux saules tordus et rabougris se penchent l’un vers l’autre, comme s’ils se parlaient. On les appelle : « Les petits vieux. »

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09:49
Macron seems to lose a few IQ points every time he talks
09:59
@M.A.R. He must have a negative IQ then.
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@jlliagre Ah!
10:48
Weird thing of the day: natural autoantibodies - I never knew they existed.
Antibodies with low affinity agains your own proteins. Why do they exist?
The body is weirder than one can imagine.
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@CowperKettle 1) Lymphocyte maturity is not flawless, so there is always a small proportion of B lymphocytes that secrete antibodies against self proteins. 2) More commonly, an endogenous protein resembles a compound on the bacterial, fungal etc. surface. The main target is some foreign antigen, but certain cells have membrane proteins that resemble the antigen.
This is what happens in S. pyogenes infection in kids. A bacterial antigenic protein resembles proteins on the surface of the endocardium and glomeruli in kidneys. The antibodies bind these cells, and macrophages, Natural Killer cells and other immune cells kill them. The patient ends up with endocarditis and/or glomerulonephritis.
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@M.A.R. Interesting!
I came across the term, actually, by finding an study in which children with autism were found to have low levels of a particular natural autoantibody pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36979694
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> Guangzhou-based Ehang on Friday said it received an airworthiness “type certificate” from the Civil Aviation Administration of China for its fully autonomous drone, the EH216-S AAV, that carries two human passengers.
World's first pilotless air taxi.
The battery lasts for only 35 km.
The company says some 1200 units have been already pre-ordered.
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Haha, that took a while.
@jlliagre sure seems like it
@CowperKettle I have no idea what to make of it. The immune system seems to malfunction in all sorts ot diseases.
15:01
So, what are the odds that Gaza residents will ever be able to return to the area they're currently being evacuated from?
2 days ago, by alphabet
Hang on to your keys when you leave; you'll need them for the protests twenty years from now.
@M.A.R. Right, I think things will continue indefinitely.
@M.A.R. Me either. The possible explanations they give in the Discussion section seem too hazy and extremely complicated.
But this is quite logical, because autism is an extremely complicated group of conditions.
 
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> Daily use of artillery rounds, thousands.
Ukraine's army claims to have exceeded Russia's daily use of artillery rounds in the last couple weeks
Hmm.
I don't know whether that's good or bad...
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> Thus, when people perform word recall tasks, hippocampal-entorhinal cortex (HEC) theta power covaries with “semantic proximity” between sequentially recalled words (20), while the order of word selection in verbal fluency tasks can be captured using models initially devised to describe behavior in foraging animals (akin to “mental navigation” in a semantic space) (21, 22).
So people forage for words to say, like foraging animals forage for locations to recall.
@CowperKettle Why are so many scientists horrible writers...
My brain is too tired to parse that, no matter how interesting it may be.
Because their HEC is all used up on actually creating new conceptual links, and thus there's less leftover capacity in the HEC for good writing.
They try to forage for words in their HEC, but it's all littered with scientific concepts.
17:49
@CowperKettle what does HEC stand for
nvm, I should have read up further
hippocampal-entorhinal cortex (HEC)
Wow, intense paper; thanks for sharing
@Cerberus I think they are better readers...
@user726941 They are not!
Okaaay, better thinkers?
18:05
If there were better thinkers, though should have thought about how to write better.
Good writing takes a lot of time and energy.
Life is not that easy
If it were, the world would be a lot better place
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@M.A.R. A negative IQ is an understatement.
Or maybe it's understanding.
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Is an irrational understanding a negative
Also, the IQ test would have to subtract wrong answers from right
@Cerberus I think the style of science writing is based on qualities other than wit, charm, or reader engagement. If it's hard to read, they seem to think, then it must be factually accurate, right?
19:06
It could be plain old terse
I remember reading my son's master's thesis in computational biology. I asked him whether he was going to do a final touch-up to make it more engaging. He gave me a look that told me he was enduring my input.
Hey, at least he didn't tell me where I could stick my writing advice! ^_^
LoL, parents just don't understand
We have to be a burden on our children to compensate for all the things they put us through growing up.
19:20
Indeed, they out grow the nest, so to speak
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@Cerberus And yet non-scientific writers, aren't really saying anything worthwhile.
> If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
which funnily enough doesn't contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number or experimental reasoning about fact or existence
yes, it is a rejection thereof
@Mitch Quoth who?
@Robusto Quoth Whom.
whom tho hath quoth
@Mitch Look at the grammar again.
19:51
@Robusto haha. Quoth Hume.
A lesson for your Humility.
> Commit it then to the flames
@CowperKettle You're making my HEC hurt
@Mitch The HEC it is.
So Hume was pro-book-burning
for the warmth and for cooking
@Robusto Darn it all to HEC
19:53
@Mitch Jinx.
Said Charlton Heston on his Statue of Liberty tour when he found out the arm was closed.
Commit it to the Disco Inferno, I say!
Burn baby, burn
I came here to record my dissatisfaction with the new (to me) Youtube behavior of forcing ads on you by checking for ad blockers and stopping the video unless you turn off the ad blocker.
I don't go to Youtube to watch ads
ugh
money
getting money is fine
but having to pay it is awful
go some where else
@user726941 sigh
also monopolies I don't like
but monopsonies are awesome, if it is me
egopsony?
autopsony?
me-opsony
Where is @Cerberus when you need him?
@user726941 Dance the Night Library Away!
20:02
better yet, cut back on internet time
@Cerberus Every narrow science has it's own vocabulary (technical terms that encompass a whole bunch of prior thought) so it's like a new language. The grammar and implication though is sometimes a weird mix of intentionally using unnecessarily obfuscatory contortions of referent and implication.
Also some amount of cargo culting and trying to impress with fancy language.
@user726941 sigh
You can't burn that
too many toxic chemicals released into the air
One way to make time go by fast is to watch youtube or tiktok shorts.
One time I watched one, then watched another, and then... I looked up and a whole hour had gone by. and I learned nothing.
other than to avoid watching them.
@Mitch I'm looking for a YouTube "Checking for ad blockers blocker" extension.
@Vikas blocked
and flagged
@Vikas Or... search on youtube for how to do it.
@Mitch Very funny.
I think they detect only well known apps.
20:22
@Mitch I never see ads and I don't use an ad blocker. I use the Brave browser and so far YouTube hasn't figured that one out yet.
All businesses made people really addicted to their services and then finally became too much greedy after the pandemic. (Change my mind).
@Robusto Brave? That's a new one to me.
Check it out.
@Vikas also during. prices rose unnaturally for a lot of things.
@Robusto That's not some Russian bitcoin scam is it?
@Mitch Please.
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> Brave is a privacy-focused browser, which automatically blocks most advertisements and website trackers in its default settings.
Must say it's very brave.
Don't know how long and to what extent it can last.
When did you change to it? And what made you flip?
They do advertise crypto and "Web 3" in their own news feed, but there is no obligation.
@Mitch I think I started using it three or four years ago, mainly for the privacy.
And it thwarts a lot of shit that I would otherwise have had to use UBlock or UOrigin or whatever those things are called. And it works better than they do.
hm
but Chrome folds my laundry for me
I don't want to give that up
That's just a scam. Chrome is taking money out of your pockets while it does that.
20:29
literally
except I don't think I use actual paper or coin money hardly at all any more
what is the word... is it 'cash'? That sounds funny.
Yeah, I don't even buy coffee with cash now.
Cash? cash? Cache? Cachet? Kush? Khos kesh? Quiche
Quiche it is.
I thought quiche was quick cash.
Or quick cache. Something like that.
@Robusto I don't drink coffee. I hav a permanent IV drip that I pour nutrients into.
@Mitch You should upgrade to the VI drip. It's two better.
Not to be confused with vi or vim.
20:32
snort
Or just patches
a caffeine patch every four hours
ya know after Star Trek introduced the needleless syringe, bioengineers tried to actual develop it, but they found out that it is not good for the skin, basically abrades it where the 'injection' site is, and is highly prone to infection.
You thought time travel, transporters, and anti-gravity were far-fetched. But it turned out IM injections couldn't improve over a needle.
@Robusto I never got into vi. I could never remember which mode I was in.
@Mitch I think that invention preceded Star Trek.
@Robusto Oh.
I think leeches did it first.
Leeches are supposed to be wonderful for arthritic knees.
Like flying cars, it's so obvious that we should all want one and that they'd be so much better than land cars.
20:40
Maybe other arthritises too.
But there are unintended consequences, like stability, and low altitude obstacles, and other flying cars.
@alphabet Exactly... take the leech off and you keep oozing for ever.
@Mitch Flying cars will make a nice tipping point for climate change. We'll just flip right into Hell.
@Robusto What if they're electric? and use fans for levitation?
@Mitch Then people in them will poop on your head.
You could park a whole bunch of the cars in front of a wind turbine electric generator and something something perpetual energy creation machine.
@Robusto just stand on the other side. poop problem solved
20:47
@Mitch See: head, getting pooped on.
@Mitch I don't think it will be that simple. What about diarrhea?
OK supposing that you get lot a lot of poop, then use that for creating methane to power more turbines.
@Robusto uh... that's just more of it?
also helps clean you out
and shed those pounds
@Cerberus some of them haven't really understood the subject matter, merely compartmentalized it like an invocation to be recalled whenever necessary. Others are failing to communicate because they have to adhere to arbitrary rules such as word count. Lastly, some non-native authors cherry pick the phrases they like from articles with good English, change them up a bit to avoid accusations of plagiarism, and then regurgitate them on their own paper
a good flu sets you right up for beach season!
This is incidentally how some of my profs recommend to bridge the gap in English fluency to write an article in English
@M.A.R. I was going to mention the possibility of non-native speaker composition, but in my very limited experience, it's either very obvious (from lots of typos/grammar problems) or not noticeable at all.
20:53
@Mitch I occasionally see an article where the author disguises their lack of English fluency well. I only notice it three paragraphs in when they use an odd expression that nobody says in English. It's always been some Chinese team.
@CowperKettle I read the relevant parts (the ones -not- about schizophrenia which seems to be the target of the larger article), and they're only -noting- the similarity in HEC activity in mice doing path remembering (presumably mazes) and HEC activity in humans doing sequential word recall. And they don't really go into any more detail than than other than to say 'rippling' effect (in the HEC activation) and grid cells (which tend to correlate with physical relations).
@Vikas Brave's been doing it for as long as I remember. Except it seemed to slow down my PC a bit, so I still use Chrome on PC. Everywhere else I use Brave I think
It's very interesting because word recall by itself is thought of, functionally, a semantic memory, which is considered distinct from procedural memory (like how to ride a bike or how to navigate get from one place to another)
These brain articles, neuroscience or not, I never quite get how they get from correlation to causation
And the hippocampus (or more particularly the HEC) is more of a conduit for memory than a place for word semantics storage
@M.A.R. They say that every science has a replication crisis coming to it.
20:59
That's probably not true nervous giggle
Pharmaceutical sciences are solid as rock!
And it happened first in social psych because they've always been on top of their stats game because they need it to extract the very small effects they get.
@M.A.R. I think it is (somewhat) commendable that they recommended taking phenylephrine off the shelves because they've realized it hardly does anything at all.
Some parts of the science I've become acquainted with are certainly more rigorous than others
@M.A.R. have you heard about the fMRI of a salmon?
with positive brain activity?
which salmon was in fact dead at the time of the experiment?
I ate salmon today
Does it count
yes
what on the side?
rice?
21:02
I sure hope it wasn't alive
dill?
Yep.
mmm
Something like dill, didn't figure it out
Lime juice
some weird green specks?
we'll just call it dill.
21:03
Hope there won't be a replication crisis
Well, in a way, pharmacotherapy is always having small replication crises
It's how the whole field moves forward. Otherwise pharmacology (i.e. the mechanisms of actions of substances) would have sufficed.
And besides thhere are quite a few things the science says that actual practice deviates from.
@M.A.R. The other difficulty is there's this strong modularity assumption ('this one weird part of the brain anatomy does exactly this one very particular behavioral function') and then an autopsy shows half the brain gone with no effect.
Often involving supplements or natural compounds
It's kinda weird how therapy is either 'take this pill' or 'let's cut it out'
needs a middle ground
like take a short walk every other day
but you don't have to during the winter when it's below 40
Take this pill then we'll cut it out?
that's a treatment I could get behind.
21:09
@M.A.R. Supplements are crap. That's why I stick to essential oils.
@M.A.R. You should probably take it with water then
@alphabet I burn incense candles.
upside down
the candles, not me
@Mitch well yeah, it's often been about solving problems rather than improving life
@M.A.R. The doctor is just trying to do what you asked
With chronic diseases on the rise, that attitude has to shift. If your BP is 150/90, the damage has already been done
Every once in a while I'm like "Imma stop taking all these meds and experience the REAL ME." Then I ask myself: isn't that what someone says in a movie right before losing their mind?
21:13
Fight club music
@alphabet you need to burn more essential oils to calm down
Fill a tanker with water and fennel seeds
@M.A.R. I always dilute my Adderall with water first so I can enjoy the benefits of homeopathy.
The whole county will smell like fennel for a week
@CowperKettle The foraging similarities is 'old' news:

22T. T. Hills, P. M. Todd, M. N. Jones, Foraging in semantic fields: How we search through memory. Topics Cogn. Sci. 7, 513–534 (2015).

So it's kind of a metaphor rather than really suggesting that searching for synonyms is like path finding in 3D
@alphabet it won't work unless you try to fight your negative energy
Someone should start selling paclitaxel as a "detox" regimen. Might as well stop cancer in advance.
21:17
So it's kind of a metaphor rather than really suggesting that searching for synonyms is like path finding in 3D
@alphabet Or before the monster pops out from under the bed and murders everybody.
All natural yew bark extract.
Do they have a drug for "your brain is just kinda generally messed up in several different ways" yet?
@Mitch how did it fit in there
@alphabet acupuncture and conversion to Buddhism
@alphabet proven by sayense
@M.A.R. that's how monstrous they are
when you look, they squinch themselves up really thin to look like the underneath of the bed
insidious
I prefer the ghostly horror movie monsters. The ones that prank people
Ooooh somebody wrote a German definite article on the wall with ketchup
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@M.A.R. MAOIs and dark chocolate. I hear they're synergistic.
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Although the hot thing these days seems to be progressive horror movies
Everyone, people of color can also be horribly murdered supernaturally
Although the black guy in Jurassic World didn't die despite his best efforts
@alphabet MAOI and dark chocolate AND Buddhism
Now that's a killer
@M.A.R. I'm guessing it was the nominative feminine article.
@Robusto It's so suspenseful. Die . . . What? Die Frauen? Die Bücher? It's just like Duolingo
@M.A.R. It's also accusative. I mean, soooo accusative.
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