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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which would you rather do, create art or summon rain?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is making art with the rain an option?

  Sand darkens when wet so that could make a cool canvas, theoretically.

  You could also play with that “wall of rain” effect you sometimes see when you are just outside of a heavy rain area.

  Alternatively, just make “social commentary” like a torrential downpour on the financial district. Sometimes art is just revenge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does "araffe" mean?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the old lingers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  General strike/protest? Get enough people making noise on the street and people will have to listen. With a presidential election coming up, Dems won’t be able to fully ignore it either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maria⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Last is usually the best place to be, honestly. No stress from the rat race. Free sweet items you can use to play kingmaker. Ambition is for fools in MarioKart

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paypal won't let me remove by Debit card⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They are altering the deal. Pray they don’t alter it any further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that the Middle East conflict is back. Was wondering why they call them settlements instead of towns?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The US forgets about everything on pretty much a weekly basis. Blame the 24 hour news cycle, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, those kind of mean the same thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is Indeed a problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This post isn’t even about professional level jobs, dumbass. It’s explicitly about someone who can’t afford a car and applied for service/labor jobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A pastor invited to DeSantis' Disney board meeting quoted the Bible telling people not to 'resist authority' as it strips workers' park perks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, anyone know what these park perks are? I couldn’t find it in the article at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Also, you hear stories about groomers.” Here’s the thing: grooming is a real thing, and it has nothing to do with being trans or letting kids know that trans people exist.

  The sad part about all of this groomer talk from the right is: now this language is politically coded and no longer useful for discussing real grooming like high school teachers doing sketchy stuff with their students.

  Not that anyone using this language cares about the well-being of actual children, but if they did you’d think they might consider something like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Synthwave end-up associated with Cyberpunk ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect Vangelis’s work on BladeRunner had a big part to play in this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why school didn't taught me Q̶̦͚͙̗̼̈́͊̍̈́͊µ̶͙̣̜͖̯̐̑̀̎͠å̷̻͚͕̞̺̑̊̂̋͒ñ̶̞̰̦͈͇̂̓̄̄̔†̸͓͈̟͗͊͜͜͠͝͠µ̴̧̢̛̹̥̼͑̈̍͘m̵̺̩̼͙̞͑̓̃̓͠?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Void deer sounds tempting, I wonder what the 401k will be like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, don’t expect funding for AAA games!

  Wait…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we not eat pig or cow?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t mind my asking, which language is yours?

  It’s an interesting question to ponder which different languages ended up with distinction words for the meat vs the living animal, and maybe what that says about the culture.

  The distinction is not a feature of French, from what I understand, and English ending up with this distinction seems to have been entirely accidental.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we not eat pig or cow?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that the difference in terms goes back to the Norman invasion, which is when a ton of French-based terms for things were carried over.

  The peasants referred to everything as the name of the animal but the French nobles referred to it as porc, boeuf, etc. This is also where we got the words for venison, mutton, veal, poultry, and also apparently pheasant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 careers where workers will have to change jobs by 2030 due to AI and shifts in how we shop, according to a McKinsey study⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d assume that would translate to fewer, more efficient total man-hours, aka fewer people/jobs overall reaching roughly the same level of output as before

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In songs sung in English, a word ending with "t" followed by "you" sometimes makes the "you" sound like "chew". Does this happen in other languages with different words/sounds?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Some accents of English have “linking r”/ “intrusive r sounds” for similar reasons, like when the end of a word and start of the next are both vowel sounds.

  Example, some non-rhotic accents still pronounce the ending r in clear/gear before a vowel sound, or you might get “Pamela [r] Anderson” because of the back to back “a” sounds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In songs sung in English, a word ending with "t" followed by "you" sometimes makes the "you" sound like "chew". Does this happen in other languages with different words/sounds?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Spanish has a lot of connected speech features, too. Especially with words that start with open vowel sounds, since most Spanish words also have open vowels at the end. Example, “Mijo/Mija” (term of endearment for your kid) comes from shortening “mi hijo/hija” (my son/my daughter). There are like 100 other examples I’m forgetting and my spelling is probably wrong since my Spanish is quite rusty but you get the idea