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> perennially underfunded

I remember voting to fund high speed rail, and the funding was quite generous...

If I saw that in any other context I would have assumed it was a low budget special effect--mostly due the spray of rainbow sparkles when the module separates from the base.

teenagers carrying and using guns in baltimore actually is a real problem

why the tourniquet?

sometimes professionals need to fix shit and need exacting clarity

Words of Latin origin are identifiable at a glance, and homonymic collisions are thereby avoided

-- Caeser, seizer of the day

yes, i've seen that done in videos of streetfights.

Christianity began as an episode of Undercover Boss, so it makes perfect sense.

i had the same experience. my solution was to configure youtube kids to only show my whitelist of mannually approved videos.

is it not true though that activity/threshholds of dopamine synapses can be globally or semi-globally up and down regulated?

i would think some of our taboo words that a re borderline illegal and I am scared to even type the first letter of with asterixes because i am on a work computer

If I could change one thing about Duolingo, it would be to allow the user to turn off all the gamification completely. I don't care about fake internet gems, knowing how to speak Chinese (or whatever) is it's own reward, so stop wasting my time with bs!

Nevertheless, Duolingo is an amazing and convenient starting point for unlocking the learning of new languages.

Make your way through the entire course as fast as you can, while also listening to music, talking to people, talking to chatGPT, reading books, etc in the target language as soon as you can manage.

Protip: learn your 3rd language using your second as the language of instruction.

If you peruse the comments here, quite a few people seem to have been confused on this point

@dang the article does not seem to imply that molecular oxygen was found. maybe retitle to "Oxygen element" or "Atomic oxygen"?

Is the apple in the logo splashing into "wine dark sea"?