DrMango

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Anyone else remember YTMND?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Wait until you find out that primer, as in a small tutorial or short teaching material, is pronounced with a short i sound like is found in "fin," "mix," and "fringe."

Primmer.

That one really boiled my noodle recently.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Demand reparations for Netscape Navigator!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's, like, a really good motor...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But how do animals without homes learn to cook their meat?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

It's not just that we eat "too much" but also that we're eating too much non-nutritive foods. The United States has entirely too many so-called "food deserts" where people are unable to purchase healthy foods

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

HBO loves doing this with their shows. See also True Detective

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That's what kills me. This guy could have lived out the rest of his days banging pornstars and defrauding investors and no one would have raised an eyebrow until the posthumous Netflix documentary, but no, he had to go and accept the most public job in the country.

He chose this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Scout had it coming.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Mining rocks and killing bugs. Hey we all gotta make a living

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

OP should try opening the pickle jar with their thighs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To be fair though incels are always pissed

 

Tl;Dr Spotify turned shuffle on after I closed the app then later resumed my listening leaving me wildly confused and possibly with some major spoilers. Check before you resume listening.

I did a longer road trip this weekend and decided it'd be a good time to get through some of the books in my backlog. Unfortunately, not only was I hit with my audiobook listening limit (15 hours per month, apparently), which is not something I remember Spotify advertising very clearly in the app, but also Spotify decided to turn on shuffle on my return trip. Since I was paying attention to the road I honestly thought that perhaps the author had decided to go with a disjointed narrative for the latter half of the book, but when I got home I found that I had inadvertently listened to a few later chapters, and now I'm a little upset about it.

The book was The Luckiest Girl Alive if anyone was curious (honestly the jumpy timeline narrative kind of worked, it was just a little confusing). If you're new to this one, it comes with a pretty big content warning just fyi.

I guess I'll be finishing it next month when I have more listening hours on Spotify.

 

I like shopping in book stores. There's something about wandering the aisles and waiting for a book to jump out at you that I can't get shopping online. Unfortunately, whenever I compare the price of a book Amazon has every in-person store beat, often pricing their offerings 30%-50% lower (or around $10/book in my experience) even when I go to a large chain like Barnes and Noble.

How is it that Amazon is able to afford to offer the books so much cheaper and also support all of the infrastructure involved in shipping it to my doorstep compared with in-person stores?

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