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doesn't evoke the image of being wrong to me, much rather some equanimous exploration

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beautiful though is that errare meant “to wander, to stray” originally

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“ainsi: thus, so as.” yeah. hm. i will definitely remember _that_

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every romance language has like three different words for “as”, “like” and “how”, and i can't tell them apart FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

ĉiu volas vojaĝi al la aja, neniu ŝatas la mala versiono :-/

non-linked & linked back footnotes in pdfs are annoying

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my nervous system is as smooth as a baby

the repugnant conclusion turns around: “It's too full here, let's go home.”

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a hedonium shockwave, a utility monster and the repugnant conclusion go into a bar.

from now on, i will use  whenever abbreviating the Fast Fourier Transform

i think that every language should have a unary - and + operator, and that those should be idempotent. sign flipping should be done by multiplication with -1.

antinatalists: another victim of the replication crisis

synthesis: the reason why african americans commit more crimes _is_ genetic, but responsible are the genes from the white slavers in their ancestry

niplav boosted

*fails at quickly covering his set* "hey! consider knocking before entering!"

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