maryjayjay

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Library Genesis is down. Maybe for good

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Some timezones are already half an hour off

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Adjuster

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The dictionary is descriptive, not proscriptive. Language evolves

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It's their choice

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

When I was at Qualcomm we had an experimental, internally developed mobile OS that embraced the ubiquity of the browser and the power of apps written for the browser. The code name was b2f, which stood for "boot to Firefox"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

When my Jewish roommate told his parents he was dating a gentile they told him he was "thinning the blood"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Mfw my sophomore year in HS is "ancient"

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