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You need a colonoscopy

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Similar. I knew exactly who she was, and I knew the answer was going to be a pun, but I was stuck on her actual name. I started trying to think of the punchline just to remember her name, and it finally clicked when I started with camera

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Don't let awful managers guilt trip you

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My first impression is that a child wrote it.

Management or not, the older you are, the more opportunities you would have had to understand it's more nuanced than that.

Labor market faces so many issues on both sides between overworked salaried employees, average and minimum wages not keeping up with inflation, decline in education standards putting out lower quality candidates, jobs shifting towards gig and independent contractor positions that punish independence, and so many things. This just comes off as a novice brat who didn't like how they were made to feel.

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Don't let awful managers guilt trip you

This is so different industry by industry. Some can build in redundancy to cover employee leave yet still have something to do when everyone is healthy.

For many other companies, particularly in reference to hourly employees, having too many employees in the same position to cover call outs means scheduling gets diluted among them, which leads to lower earnings for all employees and higher turnover.

I pro worker and anti abusive management, but vague generalized posts like these feel disingenuous or at least not well thought out.

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Is there an equivalent of pitch accent in European languages including English?

I've only ever heard Japanese, Chinese, etc. described as tonal languages, not pitch accents.

You're wondering about languages in the Indo-European language group making distinctions between homonyms/homophones by tone. Tone has a different function in those languages, such as expressing inquiry.

In English, syllable emphasis can be used to distinguish between homonyms (verb presENT vs noun PRESent) and would-be homophones (desSERT vs DEsert)

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The real deal

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  1. Even if not learned through experience, it can also be learned through critical thinking. One could take a moment to ponder why someone is checking the eggs and could easily arrive at the conclusion they're checking for broken ones.

  2. Or they could open their mouth without thinking much and say something ignorant to a stranger in the grocery store

  3. Or they can demonstrate the greater depths of their ignorance and make a post about it on a social media platform showing they had time to figure it out but couldn't despite it being on their mind the entire time.

Sadly, much of our random interactions and popular public discourse are driven by #2 and #3

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people are just shitty

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You had a mission. It was really time to stop browsing and put away the phone to recharge, but you said "No, I must investigate and share!"

Edit: This was meant to be a supportive joke commenting on the battery level in your screenshot

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What Fox News is using to show how scary Socialism is for America

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To clarify, you're saying the UN disagrees with the OHCHR assessment...

Edit: Clearly pointless to continue a thread of comments

The UN says there's no genocide of the uyghurs taking place in China.

I'm a little surprised I was able to make you say something so stupid so quickly. The OHCHR Assessment is a UN statement. It concludes the many claims about human rights abuses are supported and there is cause to claim China has committed crimes against humanity. It never discredits genocide, for—as I summarized previously—it avoids addressing the term genocide completely.

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Seems Timely.

Reading fiction was required in my schooling as well. This particular thing doesn't feel that different.

If it moves on to mandating prayer and citing a pledge daily, well that would be a wonderful time for protest or violence.

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Donald Trump's Freedom 250 faces fresh humiliation as Vanilla Ice show canceled

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I try to avoid watching anything that shows his image or replays his voice, but I've seen Trump be absolutely humiliated at least once. It was the WHCA dinner when Obama roasted him over Trump's birth certificate flop.

It's could very well be the point at which he dedicated himself to raping America and never would be able to stop obsessing over Obama, the man who smirked while he spanked him in public and everyone laughed.