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Cronch cronch cronch
He's oso special!
When I was like 7 my older brother told me Hawaii was a floating island and that each year it sinks one inch and some day, in our lifetime it was going to be completely under water. I didn't find out til much later that it's actually several islands.
"I don't make my bed for the same reason I don't re-tie my shoes after I take them off"
Good luck out there.
kydn
Whut whut? Polar bear butt
StrangePaegan
#9 so, uh, not very hygienic but I guess cooking will remedy that.
Droopyjuniper
#2 the closest Gen z/alpha have to this issue is all the Tiktok songs that go viral then you listen to the full release and it's garbage up to the section that went viral with.
flukeysnail
#24 the Bermuda triangle is a thing because it's historically a busy shipping lane. It's like remarking that a lot of traffic accidents happen on busy roads and finding that mysterious.
Colopty
#1 With how crowded those pots are, at least you can rest assured that it's not a thing you'll have to deal with for long.
CatShadowleaf
That basil is 20 seconds from bursting through the bottom in search of dirt.
MayMayz4DayzYo
#11 hoptal
ArcaneM37
#29 i'd like to add, when you feel like you are hungry but nothing sounds good, drink water.... then if still hungry, eat.
Gotta be a weekly occurrence in my house that I remind my kids of this, and it always rings true.
duktayp
#13 "Frozen"
R 2010 ‧ Horror/Adventure
sarzaya
#16 I invited the wrong child to my daughter’s party when she was 5. Thought some kid was crashing our party at the park! Then had to explain the next school day to the actual friend, which is hard to do for a 5 yo, why we didn’t invite the little girl to her friend’s party.
azazyel
#2 or it turned out to be amazing and had a cool flow to the entire CD. (Do you albums do that?)
0RocketCat0
#3: The british(right before taking over the world): I say, old chap, what if we just mix some of the juice of citrus fruits with alcohol and drink it all the time?
ChazzK
Funnily enough, even when they figured out (mostly) what was causing scurvy, it kept being an issue for a while... Apparently there was a mix up between (depending on which source you read) the word "lime" having been used for citrus in general but thought to mean specifically limes, or the word "limon" being mistranslated as lime instead of lemon.
Either way, YES, that is where the perjorative "Limey" come from!
SuddenlySeymour
and they forgot it enough that British Antarctic expeditions got scurvy in the early 1900s.
monkeyshines
Sadly some early tests put lime juice in barrels with copper fittings, which destroys Vitamin C. So that set back the whole thing a few decades.
dailysuicidalthoughts
#2 any music store I went to in the 90s onward, had listening booths, or at least headphones with new albums playing on repeat.
Even my local Walmart had headphones for popular new albums.
Only albums I bought without listening to most of the songs first, was Def Leppard high n dry, Mr. Big Actual Size, and Tool Lateralus.
Luckily for me those three albums were all chock full of bangers.
Predacane35
I purchased too many shit albums just because I loved the band. You kind of got used to some of the songs.
TI99Kitty
When I was growing up, only record stores let you preview albums, and even then, it was only whatever was new that week. But since they charged more for the albums than Target or the department stores at the mall, I rarely, if ever, went to a record store.
That's why, most of the time, I stuck to "Greatest Hits" albums. I got burned too many times buying an album, and the only thing on it worth listening to was ONE song that got played every hour or two on the radio.
at3am
The record store I used to go to let you listen to any album you wanted to, and they had comfy chairs for listening.
winkydinkyhocake
#27 like my cousin Throckmorton…
OGClownBaby
#24 I always grew up thinking catching on fire in general was going to be a big part of my life growing up. The PSA’s stressed “stop, drop, and roll” in elementary school so freakin much I figured this must be VITAL INFORMATION FOR YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE type shit
emarieshanks28
#28 It will outlive us all.
QuartzPoker
#12 Remember: People who try to tell you specific punctuation marks are signs of AI are either 1.) Unfamiliar with writing or 2.) Pedants with an axe to grind and see this as their opportunity to pick on their least favorite punctuation mark. AI uses em-dashes because the writers it copies use em-dashes. AI uses the Oxford Comma because USAmericans use the Oxford Comma and are the largest contributor of English writing on the Internet. It's not a gotcha.
JadeMcLeod
#1 rosewary
Cranbananarama
Always be wary of Rose.
mothmam
#14 maybe it’s a girl moth.
AntaNce
Mothman of Imgur thinks this is also a possibility. Wise to ask.
SedatedSl0th
#1 we do not have a window conducive to this environment. We have tried every window in the house for the last 5 years. We would love fresh herbs.
fxpi
#7 I was cooking a Newman pizza and my daughter asked "why are we having Epstein pizza?"
Pacaruru
#24 it's strange how spontaneous combustion stopped being a phenomenon around the same time it became socially unacceptable to smoke indoors.
needlestosay
#14 I just adore that we agree this presumptuous ass moth is a he/him
AntaNce
Mothman of Imgur approves of #14 and your comment is just as pure.
elbootio
#2 Mambo No. 5.
JohnEdwa
#3 Humanity has repeatedly discovered and forgotten the cure for scurvy - the first documented case was in 77AD when Pliny the Elder reported sailors eating sea kale to prevent it. Even the whole lemon thing took like 100 years because we thought it was the acid and kept trying boiled citrus juices instead - which destroys most of the Vitamin C.
ReverseSyzygy
I cannot stress this enough:
I CANNOT eat, wash and sleep at the same time
.
LavenderAmethyst
#4 I was filling in a student about historical events of the seventies and eighties. I didn’t have the text reading available so I just described them to him. He stopped me and said, “ Don’t you need the reading packet for this?” I told him I lived through most of them.
JumperBones
Has @UncleSlam123 seen #13 before?
UncleSlam123
Ooo that looked way fluffier than it actually was! Great stuff here!
CrisprCAS
#2 that's why you recorded off the radio
meganical
Okay, DJ
lurkerthatoccationallywantstocomment
I found that more times than not what they played on the radio wasn't the really good stuff off of the album. But yeah, I did my fair share of recording, then perfecting it on the dual tape deck and then making copies for my friends
FetaForMoses
That’s how you do it
AgamemnonsMemes
And engage in.... piracy!?
AvsFreak
I got 12 cds for 1 cent and only had to pay full price for 1.
TI99Kitty
Wait... You actually paid full price for one? Are you allowed to do that?
I thought you were supposed to get the 12, then throw away everything that came in the mail from them, after that.
AvsFreak
Well my parents ended up paying the bill. Then I'd order more in 6th months when they sent the new one
SeanBeanJovi
You're supposed to use a fake name, then they can't catch you.
TI99Kitty
And then, a couple of years later, order another 12.
muliphen
Man, the amount of waiting I did just to hit that record button on the tape deck...
CrisprCAS
What's your ibuprofen budget like these days?
muliphen
Not nearly as high as my rx nasal spray budget since my body decided to gift me chronic nonallergic rhinitis 3 years ago (though I do keep a fair amount of advil cold & sinus on hand too for bad nights).
CrisprCAS
Yeah, I remember when I was young and healthy. Now I stand up in the morning and my body says
muliphen
TKpotato
Got up to let my cat in and had a sharp pain in my side. Thanks for the reminder to pick up some ibuprofen tomorrow
LivingDecomposition
#29 So I guess I need to eat, sleep, and shower, but the problem is: I can't get up the motivation to do any of that.
stonetemplefox05
Yeah that'll happen
onecowboytoo
Have you tried spite?
LivingDecomposition
I'm more motivated by the people I know love me. Being a terrible person doesn't exclude that
justaguyinthebackrow
#12 I feel the same about em dashes. Like, sorry you never learned the rules of punctuation, but it's not AI, it's autism.
DildoMussolini
For my entire life, I've literally never seen anyone go out of their way to use em dashes. And now that they're assumed to be an indicator of AI generated text, people are swearing up and down that they've always used them.
It feels like a claim AI bots would be programmed to disseminate to make their presence harder to identify.
Badprenup
I find em (and en) dashes unnecessary because those two characters and the hyphen all look fairly close to each other and the use cases for each of them is so different that you can just use the hyphen for all three and nobody will ever get confused.
And while I could see *some* usage for the em dash as a separate thing, there's like a half dozen accepted alternatives to situations when you would us it. And most of them look better than the em dash (imo) so I'd rather leave it by the wayside.
justaguyinthebackrow
Fair enough
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ImGoingToGoFallAsleepOnABench
The difference is, an Oxford comma can be easily produced on a standard keyboard, be it on a computer or smartphone - it's just a properly placed comma. An emdash cannot be produced on either device without some effort; an LLM, on the other hand, doesn't have to do what humans have to do to type emdashes, and thus can (and does) use them with impunity, making them a more reliable tell of AI-generated text.
WholeWheatBunnyHugger
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Colopty
Em dashes at least makes more sense as an indicator since they're not even accessible on a keyboard without doing alt codes, making them a highly inconvenient alternative to other punctuation that can be typed directly. Even if someone knows how to use them there's just not much reason to use them often, whereas a good bit of generated text seems to use them more than all other punctuation combined.
bluewitch
Em dashes show up in Word365 if you type a dash twice and then a space. Sometimes a regular dash changes to an em dash with no input on my part. It's infuriating.
justaguyinthebackrow
It is common practice to substitute a double en dash when the em dash is not readily available. Many programs will automatically convert them to an em dash. But yeah, I think most people just use commas.
Niagaran
I know how/when to use them but can't be arsed to use alt codes so I just use double-hyphens.
tidepool
This is the way. Even if the program you use doesn’t auto convert (but most do these days) people understand what it means.
quietwalker
I'm pissed that you're not supposed to nest parens and quotes and other grouping operators. Like, your rules are just shit.
doktorivan210
Parentheses just exist to make programmers and IT folk mad. (Don't believe me? Watch this...
Denvercoder09
Wait (for real? (Like really? (That's dumb)))
Kavrae
So long as you properly escape your characters, nest as deeply as you want!
somethingdark
You can absolutely nest quotes; you just have to alternate using single and double quotes.
ThinkThisOut
My Elizabethan lit class had many instances of a person quoting a person who quoted…. How I passed? That’s up to paranormal investigators to determine
somethingdark
There's a bit in the book of Revelations where the nesting gets like 7 or 8 deep somehow, which is wild.
ThinkThisOut
I really hope you’ve seen ‘how I met your mother’ so I can make a Puzzles joke land… That’s the revelation!
todayok
I mean correct punctuation is more a sign of just being an adult than the 'tisim but ok.
justaguyinthebackrow
Do most adults know the difference between periods and question marks? Sure, though their proper usage is not guaranteed. But correctly using punctuation like em dashes, semicolons, or even ellipses are rare. There's a reason they're cited as AI tells. And I'm not saying someone has to be autistic to use these things; you just need a desire to do so in a world that doesn't value them. My particular flavor of neurodivergence compels me to their study and employment.
todayok
Adults use correct punctuation and I suspect you shoehorn that you're 'tistic in every possible conversation.
justaguyinthebackrow
You must have missed the part where these things are being cited as indicators of AI generated text, even though that's what my comment and the original meme was all about. Do try and keep up.
Grevane
Using 'adults' as your demographic that knows how to use punctuation properly is... Definitely a choice. It's the wrong choice, given how many adults in the US are functionality illiterate, but hey, don't let that stop you.