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@aescling how much of that semantic shift is the wobs own doing

@aescling @Satsuma it does explain why you hang out with the rest of us though

« Not only do Americans diverge sharply over important issues like abortion, immigration and the economy, they see the world in fundamentally different and incompatible ways. » we’ve been telling you this for nearly a decade

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« In a remarkable consensus, a new Quinnipiac University poll found that 69 percent of Democrats and 69 percent of Republicans say that democracy is “in danger of collapse.” »

@aescling using your eyes to read is tantamount to saying the poststructuralists were right

Today, only one
deteriorated house
stands from that era

@alyssa the “Preferred Language Order” is effectively languages sent in the Accept-Language header to websites; i don't think it is used exactly for things like autocorrect

i think the list of supported autocorrect languages is the same as the keyboard list (and it will preference the keyboard you have installed) in which case the options are Spain, Mexico, and Latin America

i still think « And, since the houses in this area all had wooden walls and bamboo fences - though also, doubtless, because they were doomed to destruction anyway - the fire leaped from house to house until the whole street was blazing away » is the greatest parenthetical in all of literature

@coriander i mean by all means read the whole thing but if you only buy the first volume and only get halfway through it's still worthwhile

@coriander the first <del>five</del><ins>seven</ins> chapters are the backstory of sun wukong so like, yes they're very popular and also hilarious

girls get on estrogen and just gotta let it all out

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i didn't expect brambles to pivot into hyperpop but yk what it fits

buddy the idea that women should not do productive labour was one invented by the bourgeoisie

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« Every day, the boys and the men of the village would go out to fish. They were allowed to keep enough to feed themselves, mostly. But in order for them to keep that privilege, the women had to contribute too, making clothes, ropes, and anything else they could to keep the terrible King satisfied. » does this author think… women didn’t ordinarily contribute in medieval times??

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