@coriander you forgot the part about listening to metal
« “Americans were playing a basic game — ‘Trump wants dirt on Biden,’” says Suriya Jayanti, chief of energy policy at the American Embassy in Kyiv at the time. “What was actually going on in Ukraine was this crazy web of shifting alliances and oligarch pockets and horse trading and back-stabbing, and in our American myopia we had limited understanding that if a tree falls in the forest and America is not there to hear it, it still falls.” » you’d think we would have learned this lesson a while ago, yet
« This week, Mr. Biden and the White House Twitter feed boasted that the president had delivered a large increase in Social Security checks to retirees this year. That increase is an adjustment for cost of living — and it is the result of prices rising faster on Mr. Biden’s watch than they have in four decades » lmao that’s one way to spin it
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@aescling oil and gas companies have made record profits this year. they could have raised prices less.
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@aescling if corporations would not keep driving up prices then this problem would be greatly reduced lol
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@aescling i mean the fed is just responding to corporations, who absolutely do want that
@coriander anyway of course a kibi language can't be normal and requires a kibi custom character set which is why i've been spending the past month writing text rendering code lmao
@coriander i have an existing corpus of hundreds of words and grammars and an entire linguistic history from when i was in high school but it's like, in a bunch of XML files in lots of different places and it's kind of a pain to work with
@coriander i have a project like that too; i haven't touched it in a fair while but i’m trying to build up some infrastructure for the conlanging
@coriander yeah i agree and like
telling a story is hard and getting it right might be a once‐in‐a‐lifetime thing
but building a world to set that story in is itself a lifelong project, so
@coriander it’s very good writing imo
this college offered an english degree but its library held virtually none of the most widely-read pieces of english literature
at my alma mater’s library the “fun to read” section was like, three tiny rows set into the wall of the quiet area
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