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always strive to see the wonder in the world, because it's always there to be seen
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computers as crystal magic 

there's a timing crystal that gives a heartbeat to several thinking crystals that talk to each other and to memory crystals along carefully arranged passageways of highly purified (magically-receptive/electrically-conductive) metal, with another thinking crystal purely devoted to dreaming up shapes and telling illumination crystals how to light up in patterns to produce those shapes for the (mage/user) to view so they can see what the other thinking crystals are thinking. the (mage/user) can tell the whole apparatus what to do with special hand gestures while holding yet another assemblage of crystals
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computers are literally just crystal magic
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pet peeve: people who claim that somehow, dialects that involve lenited sounds indicate that the speaker is "lazy"
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yoshi counts as a horse
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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

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Second sketch of the night (after the one I misposted to my other Masto account then reposted here). A jackolith, combination of two 20th-century mythical creatures, neither of which were really intended to be taken seriously. One was a punchline, the other a game mechanic. But they both exist as ideas, and that's given them lives of their own too. And it means they can be combined.

it bothers me that people can get so deeply into this sort of nonsense
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...that makes *two* messes of absolute psuedoscientific nonsense we've come across on stackexchange today

what the hell?
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"Probably? I'm barely even *amateur* bably!"
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the existence of this video that youtube keeps recommending to us makes me feel old
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what is it about dishwasher detergent that makes it not foam up?
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why do we not say that a capacitor capacits, anyway
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i do not think this is the right price for that, grubhub
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the word something is common in dictionaries because it's used as a placeholder when a phrase being defined needs an object in the middle of it, but that object can vary, such as "turn (something) on"; they use the abbreviation to save space in these
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we learned an interesting thing today: apparently the reason it's common for non-native english speakers to use "sth" to mean "something", and vanishingly rare for native english speakers to do so, is because the abbreviation is used by native speakers almost exclusively in *dictionaries*, which non-native speakers use very frequently and native speakers much less frequently

the reason it's used in dictionaries is purely space constraints. print dictionaries are Big.
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the Tamil-script symbol for the digit 5 is neat: ௫
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speedrun mistakes can result in rather humorous sentences. just heard "I lost 20 seconds by accidentally learning how to make ramen"
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executive function/mh - 

it really sucks to have to deal with so much difficulty getting medicine two weekends in a row that you can't actually manage to take out the trash that needed to go out last week either last weekend or this weekend, and we can't during the week because taking out the trash and going to work are both Big Things and we can't do two big things in one day
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they call it a ladder, but i've never seen it lad
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