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Mega Thread - Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States in Arraignment - Washington DC
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Poppinkream. Now it feels like home
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Mega Thread - Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States in Arraignment - Washington DC
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Poppinkream. Now it feels like home
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It’s morally correct
My oldest reddit account was 13 or 14 years old. I remember when reddit would go down several times a week. Growing pains are just part of the deal!
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Technically, she's right
So, this is both fascinating and remarkably simple once you learn some basics about how spoken language evolves.
Let's start here: say "woman" out loud. Now, say it again, and this time pay attention to your tongue. When you said "woman," did you pronounce the "o" sound at the front of your mouth, higher in your mouth, and the "a" at the back, lower in your mouth?
Now try this. Say "women," again paying close attention to where the vowel sounds come from in your mouth. First pronounce "women" as it is written- kind of like "woah men." Do you feel how much more work that requires that pronouncing "woman" does? Now, pronounce "women" as you naturally do. Assuming you are in North America, this probably sounds a bit like "wimmin."
Probably, this "wimmin" pronunciation feels easier and more natural. This is largely because those vowel sounds originate in roughly the same area. When a word has multiple vowel sounds and they move from front to back or top to bottom, there's a good chance we will naturally shift towards an easier pronunciation.
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Does lemmy.world really have 19000 users already?
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There aren't any karma bots yet. No one is making useless comments like "this." The conversations are civil. I'm loving this community!
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Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene removed from US House Freedom Caucus
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... put me on blast on MTV?
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Square Enix Re-Releases Game Without Its Controversial Microtransactions
Proof that all we have to do to put a stop to this nonsense is just not play these parasitic titles.
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gentle looking
Intense looking dude or not, the man wrote "A Boy Named Sue." I'll show up for anything that can possibly become a Shel Silverstein appreciation post.
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Sony is going to remove certain purchased titles from user libraries
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That's one reason I've ordered a few titles from PlayAsia recently. For example, the NTSC switch edition of the Metal Gear Solid collection requires downloading the titles. With the PlayAsia edition, lo and behold- everything is on the card, and multiple languages to boot.
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‘Barbie’ vs ‘Oppenheimer’: Which Movie Got Better Reviews
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It's just marketing. They want these movies to dominate everyone's attention, and the juxtaposition between these two is ludicrous enough to get people talking
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reposting this old meme I made
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Someone else can explain it better, but basically the bicameral mind theory posits that the two hemispheres of the human brain only began communicating effectively in recent human history. Based off of symptoms related to illnesses we see now in the modern day, it is believed that this could be a plausible explanation for ancient humans claiming to have spirits, gods, etc talking to them.
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Has his time finally come?
Milhouse is not a meme
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Tomorrow many subreddits will open up again, will you switch back to Reddit or stay on Lemmy (or use both)
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I'm having the opposite feeling. I also mod a sub of that size. The thought has crossed my mind to make that community here, sticky a thread in the sub, turn off automod, sign out, and let nature do the rest.
Edit: community made. Any users from, living in, or in some way attached to Alabama, feel free to find Sweet Home Alabama !alabama
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gentle looking
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A song, actually. Silverstein wrote the Johnny Cash song "A Boy Named Sue. "
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Is it just me or did inflation hit musical instruments really hard over the last few years?
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I've heard this referred to as price memory. There was a moment in time where market forces, legitimate or not, pushed instrument values through the damn roof. Retailers are loathe to let prices return to normal, and people that bought these instruments want to recover as much of their cash as possible. This happens in a lot of hobbies.
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'King Of The Hill' Dale Voice Actor Johnny Hardwick Dead At 64
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It was confirmed back in January. They very well may have already begun recording lines.
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What screams "poorly educated"?
Surface level knowledge without developed critical thinking skills.
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What's everyone's relationship with the SEGA Game Gear?
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The sooner, the better. Failed caps can leak and cause much more severe damage.
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Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?
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We saw it as community, they saw it as free labor.
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The studios thought they could handle a strike. They might end up sparking a revolution
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The two are unrelated, just happening confidently AFAIK. That said, the purpose of a widespread strike is to make people that would normally be unaffected pay attention. Grinding the economy to a halt forces action, at least in theory.
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Attempting to repair controller, Have I damaged it beyond repair?
I can't tell for sure, but it definitely looks like your pad is gone. If you have an exacto knife you can just gently scrape away the solder mask, find the trace, and solder to the trace.