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@noiob okay i think i understand how it's used, but i'm wondering why "we live in a society" is a phrase that has come to mean that because it doesn't seem to fit??
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@noiob i'm not sure i understand, is there some elided text in it or something?
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it was just brought to our attention that mountain dew is approximately the same color as pickle juice
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what exactly is "we live in a society" supposed to mean, anyway
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re: burnout - 

we need to do something about this but doing something about this is itself difficult and we don't have time or spoons for it
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also we're going to be away from the 24th to the 29th because we can't really avoid visiting family this year

probably won't be on here during that time
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burnout - 

everything is stressful and we keep discovering other ways in which our ongoing burnout is making things hard, today it's that we can barely keep the fridge stocked because going to the grocery store takes too much time and spoons and none of the like three options we have for dinner looks appetizing right now
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a lorica musculata is basically the closest thing you can get to real-life boobplate, only for Manly™ Men™--it's a breastplate with the outline of very well-defined pecs and abs molded into it
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Transliteration is hard

we're playing Ys Seven, and just got a piece of body armor called a "Rolika-Muskra"

Took a moment to realize that it's probably meant to be a lorica musculata, a type of breastplate worn by high-ranking roman soldiers
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birds: cute
moths: cute
bats: cute

conclusion: the majority of flying things are cute
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@kitsune @sindastra (we also have Weird Mental Stuff that means the majority of music is deeply unpleasant to us so we also have to have our own music when going to a store or restaurant that's playing background music, too)
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@kitsune @sindastra for us, listening to music is the thing that works best for dealing with anxiety, so we end up listening to music a *lot*, pretty much constantly when we're not at home
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it's a little strange to us that aluminum oxide is called alumina regardless of whether you spell it aluminum or aluminium

shouldn't it be aluminia in british english?
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@socks i think our answer is probably every box other than "want to date them" because aro
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