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  • For real; have no idea what the caffeine amount was (very well could’ve been far less than both if you) but I took an edible with caffeine, once.

    Tried it once, before, and barely noticed anything so I popped a second one, this time around.

    Naturally, forgot I’d taken anything and only vaguely became aware, an hour later, than my heart was pounding. Trying to figure out why your heart is thundering out of your chest while stoned to Hell is probably not high on the Most Effective list.




  • tomenzgg@midwest.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldOccupied!
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    3 days ago

    I mean, – on the one hand – that presumes parents are encouraging their little ones to rush strangers going to the bathroom (and that toddlers wouldn’t take the opportunity to put their hands on the floor if the stall walls just were low enough) but, also, it’s a very unserious comment.






  • tomenzgg@midwest.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldAwooo
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    4 days ago

    This means that even in left-leaning communities like Lemmy, we’re seeing a majority of individuals speak out and very clearly say “This does not offend me.”

    Has that been by people who are mentally disabled, though?

    And that leftist spaces struggle with meaningfully engagement with systems of ablism has been a point of contention for…decades, now.











  • tomenzgg@midwest.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldFrench culture
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    12 days ago

    In the end, it’s all subjective but – if you’ll hear me out – thogh doesn’t alter the current spelling very much while maintaining a linguistic heritage (as the “thogh” spelling was also likewise used, during Middle English); also, the number of words ending in just the “o” vowel is less common, I feel, and will probably look doubly foreign to a native English speaker due to the consonant digraph (though, again, subjective; maybe not).

    However, – additionally – saving “oght” for “thought” is giving that letter combination a sound already covered in English by another letter combination: “aught” (e.g. caught, fraught, taught, …thaught…?). If we’re keeping “ogh” around, we might as well give it a unique pronunciation association to avoid the overlap that was the original problem with “ough”.

    Finally, a single “f” for “tough” could work (certainly, there are examples) but we miss out on employing the Germanic linguistic tendency to indicate a short vowel sound with a double consonant, inherited by words such as “ball”, “fall”, “doll”, “call”, or “puff” (of course, there’s plenty of exceptions (“get”, “bet”, “mat”, etc.) but, so long as we’re making changes, firming up an existing rule (and avoiding the brief uncertainty of whether or not the reader is dealing with a prefix) would, arguably, be useful).