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Media & police commonly report that “speed wasn’t a factor in a crash.” What they mean is the driver wasn’t technically breaking the speed limit, or at least not too much.
But speed is ALWAYS a factor, in how much distance is needed to stop, how well crash victims can be seen, and whether they die.
Unfun Fact! Both my father & my stepfather had breakdowns made worse by workplace burnout and drank themselves to death! I am very glad that my husband goes to the GP when he's struggling instead!
Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"
It’s not quite ‘have someone come in with a gun’ but ‘if you’re not sure where a scene is going have a bunch of capitalist giants fight a crab’ is also a maxim to live by.
I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Mao is how you say “cat” in Chinese, though. Not the same character as the chairman at all!
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This hits hard. I’m a translator trying to get back to writing my own things. I’ve just realised that one of the things I’ve been getting wrong is that it doesn’t have to be a chore, or lead to A grades. Thank you!
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Thank you! I’ll look forward to reading my copy!
One of the things I find frustrating about sci-fi is that because of the American influence of it, all of the planets are called things like Zexion 5 and Danshassia 7. I’d call them things like ‘Nether Roundthorpe’ and ‘Spheresbury’. Gravity Bywell. Chalfont St Globeby. Bishop’s Goitre.
Writers! Hit me with your best editing hacks! I have A Big Edit on and every time I edit a book I forget how to edit a book. Remind me, would you?
we for real need to be talking about the decadence problem
the issue is people (not dov) think it means orgies and feasts but what decadence really looks like is people getting so bored of peace, prosperity and health that they let their kids spread measles just to feel something
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Hi, good people.
You know what to do.
Thank you.
Roses are red,
But that's not quite true,
They absorb every wavelength of the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum,
*Except* for that hue.
well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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From "Green Eggs and Vance"
We will boo you on a train
We will boo you in the rain
We will boo you on a boat
We will boo you with a goat
We will boo you on TV
We'll boo you in Italy
We will boo you here and there
We will boo you everywhere
We'll boo you at every chance
We do not like you, JD Vance!
Another admirer wishing you well. Thank you for all you do!
I flamed out. Fortunately I was too stupid to quit, found alternative routes to where I need to be and now I teach the subject. I think they keep me on the staff to show that there is always Hope. Still bear a few scars though
I’m so sorry. I have been promoting your work to students for years, it has been so helpful. This is wrong.
"Tell us something we don't know," chorus women authors, actors, artists, academics and those in every other profession, all the way through the alphabet.
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this also raises the frankly wonderful prospect of some Uruk Hai running a nice little boulangerie deep in the bowels of Isengard
Protip for writers: you want to do the weird thing, you gotta just *do it*
If AC/DC can pull off a *bagpipe break* in It's A Long Way To The Top, you can get us to care about your weird little thing
