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@Satsuma @gaditb well i think it's probably a safe assumption that the butterflies don't know that. my question is how do they know what route to take (and how does that knowledge get preserved through the presumed millennia)?

@gaditb okay extremely cool pull, but ngl my second reaction (the preceding having been both my first and third reactions) was "damnit this also has no discussion of how or why they continue to fly the possibly formerly better route instead of a now more direct one"

nobody talks about how weird it is that a common way for phonemic distinctions in languages to develop is when there's a single phoneme that has different allophones in different context and some aspect of the conditioning environment for an allophone disappears but they keep saying the allophone in words that used to have the right environment and therefore they're now in distinction

like why do we keep using the old (former-)allophone instead of changing to what would normally be expected in that environment.

@Lady por alguna razón el castellano está en desacuerdo con vos.

food, argentina facts 

in argentina things don't typically say something analogous to gluten-free ("libre de gluten", "sin gluten", etc.). more usually foods are labelled as "sin TACC", which is short for wheat, oats, barley, and rye ("sin" meaning "without")

cause like sure it is on some level reassuring that 100% of uses of that name referred to the friend who continues to have that name and that none of our mutual friends gave any sign of even momentarily considering it as potentially ambiguous.
but also 100% of uses made me double take a moment before i parsed that they were talking to him.

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surprising thing i learned this weekend is that spending much time around people with my deadname would be kinda hellish

@Lady on the one hand an aristocrat
on the other has scizor in their teams apparently

ttrpg posting 

i have now used my platform as the person currently acting to evangelize ghost town.
me: “it’s good even if you’re straight. i assume.”

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ttrpg posting 

bachelor party ttrpg session starting out strong:
we the combatants in this interdimensional labyrinth tournament are unionizing

perhaps on this trip i'll finally take a crack at our copy of el terrorismo del estado en la argentina

food 

estoy comiendo medialunas y empanadas (veganas, por supuesto) antes de pasar una semana y media en los EEUU.

@Lady whoa i forgot houndour is a kanto-only mon from gen 2.

one time my mother-in-law used the comparison "Buenos Aires is the West of Argentina" to clarify that the rest of the country dislikes it.

people sure do like to try to blackmail murderers in columbo

solaris is kind of an underwhelming film

girl-like-substance’s writing really makes one wish you had stories you needed to tell.

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