one thousand of america's dorkiest socdem bloggers logged on here yesterday and posted something like "Graham Platner, I thought you were Reddit Gold – turns out, you're not even Reddit Bronze. To my community, I apologize. And to Mr. Platner, I say: Screw you, sir."
people love sharing excerpts from Kafka's diaries in which he writhes, but I'm always drawn to his final few entries. tuberculosis made it impossible for him to eat or speak, and in that agony he wrote this. Kafka spent his life in anguish, but he went down swinging.
@SpatchCoqVT the joke is supposed to be that he's caught in an endless cycle (his arm falling into the box returns the coin and ends the curse), but it just doesn't land
@ettingermentum It's because there are fake platforms circulating online that are much "scarier." He probably saw one of those and told an aide "get me the platform so I can read it during my speech," but they gave him the real one instead. You can see him stumble as he realizes it's reasonable.
When I was younger, I went through a period where I would describe things I'd heard on podcasts as ‘something my friend said’ because I was too embarrassed to explain the actual source. It just occurred to me that now tons of people are probably doing that with AI.
if i were in charge of making one (1) change to the dictionary to better reflect contemporary usage/spelling, ‘lead’ would be listed as a valid past tense form of ‘lead.’ i see it used far more often than ‘led.’