Yea, it’s just that pedants deep down believe that good grammar is good writing; they don’t understand the difference. Therefore, they’re going to struggle to recognize good writing, and be incapable of producing it.
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The interesting thing abut that is the date 1874. They re-joined the Union in 1868, and would have had to a new constitution to do so. 1874 would have been a new constitution. Ratified after the failure of reconstruction and designed to disenfranchise the formally enslaved.
All the slave-holding states are like this.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, "as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI", Palantir CTO tells CBS News' "Face the Nation"English
5·4 days agoMore hype nonsense. AI is going to be the thing we promised it’d be 4 years ago. Trust us bro.
It’s probably the proximity of the bubble that’s making them take up smoking.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•I used to think you were crazy until you started wearing clear plastic underwear.
31·5 days agoIt must be painful for language pedants to read English literature. All the best authors I know ignore grammar and use English like a whore. And that must hurt people like you twice; once upon noticing all the “mistakes”; and twice, upon realizing that they understand English better than you. To realize your stuck in the pupil phase of understanding. Where you struggle to enjoy, and cannot produce good writing.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Anytime I see THIS combo of words, this is what I imagine
3·6 days agoRonnie Jackson is sillier than this.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Walmart Running Into Trouble as Its Super-Expensive Robots Can’t Handle the Realities of Warehouse Work: It's an automation "arms race."English
1041·6 days agounskilled warehouse workers.
It’s ironic to call them unskilled in an article describing how their skills are beyond billion-dollar robots.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•When 2 people are talking to me at the same time
3·6 days agoIf that shot is real, then it deserves a Pulitzer. The fact that both orcas have identical markings is suspicious.The Shark is high-contrast and in focus while the orcas are soft and blurry. I’m not an expert, it just looks phony to me.
But like I said, phony in the Photoshop way of old.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•When 2 people are talking to me at the same time
10·6 days agoDelightful, this really takes me back to the days when bullshit was done with photoshop instead of photoslop.
Deodorant is perhaps the nastiest substance I’ve ever gotten in my mouth. Especially the spray-on kind. It tastes like crushed up aspirin, but the worst part is the sensation as it draws out moisture 2/10
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•My new mini fridge's lock instructions are helpful
7·7 days agoThe first beer I ever tasted was stolen from a dude who kept his fridge on the back porch.
Rape is barely even illegal in the US. In our culture, if a man gets raped, that’s funny, if a girl gets raped, no she didn’t; that bitch is lying.
As far as creeping on underage people, others have pointed out the hypocrisy there.
Well yes but actually no. That would only be appropriate after an investigation is complete and charges are filed. And prosecutors are pretty limited in what they’re allowed to say publicly even after that.
I know Trump’s justice dept has screwed up a few prosecutions by making dumb public statements.
Attacking James directly is a media strategy rather than a legal one I suspect.
Symbols are for the symbol minded - George Carlin
The thing that makes this regime similar to the Nazis isn’t the way they draw eagles.
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News@lemmy.world•Tennessee Republicans consider more execution options after Christa Pike lethal injection fails
132·10 days agoI oppose the death penalty. Not because it’s immoral. I think it’s fine and good to kill criminals like Tim McVeigh or Dylan Roof. I just don’t trust government and courts to be competent enough.
The State of South Carolina lynched George Stinny, a 14yo boy, in the electric chair. 50 years later, Susan Smith somehow escaped the same fate.

investigated and held accountable. Suspended for one semester, couldn’t have been that serious.
This must be the first time you’ve heard about a university investigation of sexual violence. Bless your heart.
Yesterday I finished the book “Babylon South Dakota”. Geller and Angela Collier had done a “book chat” about it, but I skipped the video until I had read it.
So I’m looking for this video yesterday and it’s not on Collier’s book channel. Weird, so I check her science channel. No good either. So I check Geller’s channel. (this is on Nebula, not YT) And Geller is gone, no videos by him at all. I thought, did Jacob Geller get canceled?
This is how I found out that Geller had been canceled.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•There Was No Linux Merch Whatsoever. Lame As Hell.
4·11 days agoHow do you know a Linux user has been to the Arch store? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
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Uplifting News@lemmy.world•New Trump regulations would clean up health care pricing disclosuresEnglish
3·11 days agoTrump aside, this is good. Healthcare prices are intentionally obscure and inaccurate in the US.
For any given procedure or equipment, the manufacturer/provider will have a price called the “billed amount”. This is a fictional number that serves as a negotiating position. The insurance company has an “allowable” which is what they’ve negotiated with providers to actually pay. Every year the insurance companies and medical providers negotiate on the actual price. So providers are incentivized to inflate their costs in hopes of getting a better deal.
Usually, the difference between the billed and the allowable vanishes. But the patient may be on the hook, depending on circumstances. I know people with decades of experience in the industry who still get confused and struggle dealing with insurers.
The moral of the story is that if you ever have to pay medical costs out of pocket, the first thing you should do is ask to reduce the prices from the fictional and inflated “billable” down to an “allowable” amount, usually using Medicare’s allowable as a standard.





This is the guy who performed “Cop Killer”. Fucking sellout punk-ass bitch.