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Pulling it off
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The sort of comeback so good you think of it later on and write a comic, wishing you'd said it at the time
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Pulling it off
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The sort of comeback so good you think of it later on and write a comic, wishing you'd said it at the time
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Anon is someone's lifeline
Fuck would that question come up on a trivia night. No chance. That's a specialist subject
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It takes a village
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English is weird
In the sentence "you have a problem", "have" is the main verb. When reduced to the clitic "'ve", it becomes a weak form and is only expected to be used as an auxiliary verb. These types of verbs must be followed by the main verb. "a" is not a verb. Thus, we insert "got".
If we do not insert "got", the stress in the sentence moves and it sounds overly affected.
I'm not too sure, but I think "be" ("is", "are") is the only verb that can be contracted and still remain a main verb. I'm not too sure why.
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Retcon
It's a silly nitpick anyway. The monster, Adam, calls the doctor, Victor Frankenstein, his father. Surnames are inherited, thus they are both Frankensteins.
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Maybe he shouldnt have been called 'littlefoot' but instead 'no neck' in the land before time
This is a serious issue with our perception of dinosaurs though. So many animals that look completely different to one another nowadays have quite similar skeletons. You really can't be too sure about fat distribution, muscles, cartilage, skin features, colours, textures in fossils.
Dinosaurs are traditionally represented in drab colours, with skin placed upon the skeleton with a process known as "shrink wrapping", tightly attaching the skin to the frame. But many animals that we know now really don't work like that.
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Wendy's Is Introducing Uber-Style 'Surge Pricing'
Raise prices at peak times? ✅💰
Lower prices ever? ❌📈
Properly done dynamic pricing rewards customers with cheap prices for going at off-peak times, and the opposite on-peak. However this other form of "surge pricing" is really just price gouging under another label
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The Holy Trinity of JavaScript
== is a heathen with no rightful place except equality to null. All praise ===
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🇪🇺 How the EU Feels about
With a little knowledge, it's not very hard to make your own messaging app and share it with those you know. And there's plenty projects online that give you what you need without having to write the code yourself. Alternatively, there's just plenty dark web and under the radar apps already that won't bend to this ruling.
What it is, though, is very inconvenient and annoying to do so.
But if you're an actual criminal, then there is this solution here that can never be subject to this ruling.
So what this clearly means is that the EU will violate the privacy of all the everyday people that don't handle that inconvenience, pushing the serious criminals to dark channels.
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France bans 'steak' label on vegetarian products
Much like the words "fake steak" or "not really steak" wouldn't confuse me into thinking it was really real steak, just because the word "steak" is in there, "vegan steak" doesn't either, because I'm not incredibly stupid
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EU votes to mandate removable batteries in smartphones in a landslide; no more glued together junk!
Excellent! Batteries in modern phones are surprisingly definitely removable and replaceable. I've done it multiple times. However, the unfriendly barrier to entry is glue and clips that require careful prying with spugers. It's quite clear manufacturers are happy blocking you getting in; plenty people just buy new phones when the battery gets too old.
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I find myself staring sometimes, but it's because:
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Used to do this to my rule all the time
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I always see comments like these online, but they seem kind of absurd to me, coming from a country where it's not only totally common to walk dogs off-leash, but completely legal. There's really very few incidents of dogs darting into the streets here, and actually half the ones I've ever seen have been dogs on a lead anyway. A well trained dog doesn't do that.
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There are solo many things wrong in this weird conversation...
So the original tweet logically suggests that human men and woman are different species and that human babies are produce, a sellable raw material, perhaps edible.
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President Joe Biden will unveil his new plan to give student loan relief to many new borrowers
If the system is such that it warrants periodic relieving, doesn't that signify it probably deserves permanent overhaul so it isn't possible to need to borrow so much in the first place
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Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Just as they say they do not want Sharia law in the UK, we should not support the spread of other extremist religious laws
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The US veto against Palestinian statehood does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood: US Ambassador to UN
Yes, it simply represents the leverage Israel holds over the US.
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Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future
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But they don't plan to drop MV2 though
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Blessed heat
Like my oven clock. Six buttons with cryptic symbols on them. You can press them, push them and hold multiple buttons together and it does different things with different equally cryptic symbols appearing on the LCD. Sometimes somebody accidently pushes a button and it gets stuck in a weird state where it refuses to cook. At least I've worked out the correct key combo to set the current time
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I have to write powershell scripts and bash scripts at work. I hear people saying bash is great, powershell is bad, all the time in public, but honestly I feel like these people have barely actually written powershell. It's a bit wordy, but it feels much more intuitive to me, much more akin to regular programming languages.