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i.e. = "id est"
e.g. = "exempli gratia"

But who can remember those stupid Latin phrases? A good mnemonic is to replace them with roughly equivalent English words:

i.e. = "in explanation"
e.g. = "example(s) given"

Or you can just keep mixing them up because you're a chaos goblin. That's cool, too.

I hope the new pope calls for Italians to tolerate the Chicago pizza.

Muchas gracias, Carla!! 🤗

RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet. "I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.

Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

Eventually, the brutes burn down the library. Joke’s on them though, the sun will someday explode

Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it

"I Do Dream of Electric Sheep"

a man sits in a chair with his feet up next to a tissue box ALT: a man sits in a chair with his feet up next to a tissue box

I just finished The Sopranos for the first time ever, and two things:
- I'll never hear Don't Stop Believin' the same way again.
- I'm craving gabagool.

Que todo salga bien en lo que sea que decidas 🙏

Since at this point ai bots are the first ones to read your resume, it only makes sense to fight fire with fire.

Since Severance came out, my boss has stopped making us do team-building activities before our monthly meeting.

Everyone say thank you, Severance.

I heard you like nostalgia?

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Not all IPAs are bittered the same, so keep trying and tasting :)

I like to watch an episode of something marvel before severance, like eating a bag of Cheetos before going to a gourmet restaurant

I don't think any of us can judge the people who clap when the plane lands now.

Is Moomin still a thing in Scandinavia? I fondly remember reading this book when I was a kid.

+1 one of the few shows I could say we both grown-ups and kids enjoyed.

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Peter Parker Posey

I guess it makes way more sense to learn a second language starting with its grammar - it would take ages to learn by immersion (as most natives do). So learning differently means = making different mistakes.

It's just that, at the end of the day, people try to materialize in writing whatever they are listening to, but with no clear grammatical rules (and no familiarity due to reading) they just use whatever homophone.

When learning English I first learned about grammar, so I'd never write "I could of".

In English, people write "I could of" but it makes no sense at all if you'd learned at least a bit of grammar and/or read books regularly.

Similarly, in Spanish people wrongly write down "Vamos haber" instead of "Vamos a ver" when again the first construction makes no grammatical sense at all.

Not sure I agree with this (or maybe it's because I'm thinking struggle=failing)
In Spanish as well as in English most errors come from homophones when you just try to write down whatever you *think* you are listening to.

People saying that they wouldn't go to the naked supermodel beach if it caused degradation of bone and muscle tissue, and possible longterm cognitive damage, have clearly never been 15.

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Three months after adding a chatbot to my web site trained on my own publication history, CV, and blog, I decided to write an informal retrospective on the kinds of conversations I've seen people have with it: www.davidjoyner.net/on-three-mon...

Hot take:

If you changed the name falafel to "Bean Ball Fry-Up" it could've easily been in every midwestern kitchen for decades.

Main reason for "human-form factor" robots, it's that the physical world is designed for the average size/shape/weight human: doors, cabinets, desks, hallways, appliances.
Also, when training a robot using videos, sensor data, taken from real humans, it's easier if the robot is also human-shaped.

Main reason for "human-form factor" robots, it's that the physical world is designed for the average size/shape/weight human: doors, cabinets, desks, hallways, appliances.
Also, when training a robot using videos, sensor data, taken from real humans, it's easier if the robot is also human-shaped.