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Is WeChat safe to use in the US?
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A huge red flag you say?
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Is WeChat safe to use in the US?
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A huge red flag you say?
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Tesla owners are typically white men earning six figures
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The use of “six figures” as a measure of affluence goes back to at least the 60’s… if we use 1970 as a baseline, a salary of $100,000 then is $800,000 today, accounting for inflation.
Inflation isn’t the whole picture , but helps to demonstrate how dated the phrase is.
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four meal your
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Maybe they did click the microphone and that’s how they talk?
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Twins born right near midnight could have different birthdays
Twins born on an airplane in flight could be born in different countries.
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Wirth's law
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Part of why Pico-8 projects are so cool!
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I died not long after this.
Hmm, seems slightly risky. Why did you do this?
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Terry Pratchett Audiobooks Are Hit With Trigger Warnings
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It’s true, but I wonder what aspects of the books they feel needed such a notice in order to provide context.
I can only assume they thought readers would be surprised or put off by something, or do they put a caution notice on all of their books written in the early 80’s?
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Twins born right near midnight could have different birthdays
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In the US and Canada at least, there are laws that cover granting birthright citizenship to people born in their airspace of those countries. And since they share a border, it could happen, in theory. Would also depend on the citizenship status of the parents, I imagine…
In practice, I would hope you are right, this would not cause any issues. But if it happened, it would probably get news attention, and who knows what follows from that.