I think also bans “coal-rolling” … If that wasn’t already illegal.

• Dancing.
• Tattoos.
• Foreskins.
• Shrimp buffets.
• …

Reggie immediately chooses violence and Betty is so ready to conspire.

Maybe this more of a misheard lyrics thing, but for a long time I thought “noxious gas” had to do with nitrogen oxides (NOx), and then spread to other metaphorical applications like “noxious weeds” and so on.

“Butt bots… Sorry. But bots have become…” (Read in Ze Frank voice)

The map is 64-bit.

Found Ismo’s fediverse account.

https://youtu.be/RAGcDi0DRtU?si=TC4rJJ7HqJMdPwsz

Just don’t make it weird.

I think homelessness and despair cause mental illness and substance abuse. If we can prevent “normal” people from losing their homes, I think they would be more stable and able to take care of themselves long term.

Allowing homelessness is far more costly to everyone else than preventing it.

Setting aside the topic of generative AI, isn’t it about time that Pokemon goes to the public domain?

It’s been a long time since I read Lawrence Lessig, but I think we would undo Disney’s mods to copyright laws and allow more cultural remixing after a reasonable time. Like maybe 20 years instead of a century?

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You think the culture wars over pronouns have been bad, wait until the machines start a war over prepositions!

I enjoyed the humor, but the OP did set a boundary of [serious].

So I guess what we are learning here is that setting boundaries is always going to provoke some people to break those boundaries out of spite.

The conviction was about a year after the crimes, which is a lot faster than I would expect than in my country. 5.5 years does seem light to me, too.

The rhetoric is still somewhat apologetic to the perpetrators. Like “it’s difficult for students to resist due to a sense of closeness to their teachers” doesn’t say anything about rank, authority, and power that teachers have over students. And “checking whether a teacher is under excessive pressure” seems to redirect fault away from the perpetrator.

I wondered if the weapon was a Taser or cattle prod… But it says “deadly weapon” so maybe it was some kind of custom supervillain lighting gun.⚡

Thanks for this fun thread. I think “nasal gazing” would be a good candidate for a list of eggcorns.

There seems to be precedent on Twitter 2019, but I refuse to add the link here.

One thing that would help this whole situation is not living in sprawling suburbs and exurbs that require maintaining so many more miles of pipes per person.

A lot of Brazil is in the tropics, so no, not winter kinda latitudes.

But Brazil also extends to something like 33° South, where winter starts in June.

I knew XMPP as Jabber, and I remember being delighted when I tested messages between my Jabber accounts and my Gmail account.