Some timezones are already half an hour off
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Here’s a fun list: https://www.dailywritingtips.com/75-contronyms-words-with-contradictory-meanings/
It literally includes literally 😉
The dictionary is descriptive, not proscriptive. Language evolves
Literally has been used as an intensifier for over 200 years. The Oxford English Dictionary includes the definition of “figuratively”. Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain all used it that way in their writing.
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News@lemmy.world•A third of Americans agree with Trump that immigrants ‘poison the blood’ of US
14·1 年前When my Jewish roommate told his parents he was dating a gentile they told him he was “thinning the blood”
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politics @lemmy.world•Armed Militia "hunting FEMA" causes hurricane responders to evacuate—report
17·1 年前Mfw my sophomore year in HS is “ancient”
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US?
5·1 年前Those automats had a fully staffed kitchen behind them, cooking and placing the food in slots to be bought
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's going on today that you wish you could have a little help with?
1·1 年前Take vitamin b complex and drink something with electrolytes. (It’s what plants crave) (Kidding about the Idiocracy joke, do it). Source: recovering alcoholic
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politics @lemmy.world•Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College
2·1 年前Thank you for that
The more I learn about the concessions made to the southern slave owners I wish the founders hadn’t tried so hard to include them in the union. The north and the south were so different it seems like it would be as doomed to failure as jamming all the Balkan states into a single country.
Every time Texas threatens to secede and doesn’t I wish we had the choice to vote them out so they could see just how badly they are not the hot shit they think they are.
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politics @lemmy.world•Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College
02·1 年前The problem with a simple majority is it allows large states to completely dominate less populated states.
We are a republic, kind of like how the UK is a union of (at least) four countries each with its own government. We are 50 states each with its own government and the constitutional right to make it’s own laws about matters not specifically delegated to the federal government (see the abortion rights debate).
The founding fathers established the electoral college as a compromise between electing the president in a vote by Congress and a popular vote. I would take an amendment to the constitution to get rid of it.
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Technology@lemmy.world•The Google Pay app is shutting down in the USEnglish
82·2 年前Why don’t they upgrade the original product rather than create a new one? Answer: fucking laziness
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?English
6·2 年前You state i5s can’t keep up with what you code. What do you code?
What does that mean in this context?
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Technology@lemmy.world•EU to fine Apple about $500 million for anticompetitive App Store policy in music streaming marketEnglish
3·2 年前Yes. And they were allowed to pay that fine in the form of free copies of Windows to schools. Our justice system at work, people! 😔
maryjayjay@lemmy.worldto[Dormant, please move to [email protected]] Movies and TV Shows@lemm.ee•Linda Hamilton says she wouldn't star in a 'Terminator' reboot: 'It's been done to death'
6·2 年前The Sarah Connor Chronicles was awesome



Yes you can. Mathematicians do it all the time.
But that’s beside the point. I can prove you didn’t kill yourself by showing that someone else did