Is Jim Davis cool? I can’t really find anything, so that proves he isn’t MAGA at least.

I see this quite often, I suspect some default Gallery app just AI-upscales downloaded images without users’ knowledge. Someone downloads a thumbnail accidentally, it gets the AI treatment, you get major artifacting like this and they repost it somewhere else. I most often notice it on images of text, when all the letters are wobbly.

Yeah, but see, you’re just arguing definitions again. If it’s irreversible by definition, then of course it’s impossible to get back from it. But for all we know (and can detect), it’s possible to be in a state that is indistinguishable from “true death” (at least for a moment) and return to a state of life. So you can’t say with absolute certainty that those people weren’t truly dead, you can only argue after the fact based on your definition of “true death”.

And the same with “afterlife”: if they weren’t “truly dead” they couldn’t be in the afterlife when it’s defined as “the place you’re in when you’re truly dead”, but the afterlife would be completely unfalsifiable by that definition anyway, so who cares. They were in some state indistinguishable from death and still experienced something, call it what you want.

Again, I’m not saying NDEs prove the existence of heaven or whatever, but they are experiences people have when they’re super-duper close to death and that’s interesting. Is it the desperate hallucinations of dying neurons? Still interesting. So when you ask “why listen to these people when they’re clearly making shit up”, I answer “you can also make shit up if you’re clinically dead for a minute, I still want to hear it”.

Your argument hinges on death being irreversible, but you also dismiss all (potential) examples of “resurrection” with “well, you weren’t really dead then, huh?”.

Anyway, a near-death experience doesn’t even require an actual death, medical or otherwise. Now, would you see “beyond the grave” when you’re only mostly dead? Probably not, no, I don’t see why we should trust any of those accounts. But they’re still interesting experiences to hear about, they’re pretty rare and maybe we can learn something about the edges of life from them.

GTA VI looks so realistic, I can barely tell it from real life. Can I please leave the game now? Guys?

I take off my onesie before entering the bathroom, but then I’m really cold… Which I’d be anyway because it’s all around my ankles on the floor. I think we need more flaps.

Won’t get the engagement you need to reach millions of potential voters. Sex to lure them, fear to persuade them. Have a pretty girl for the initial click, then talk about the threat of [evil] and how only [good] can save us. Flash some scary images. Doesn’t matter what idea you’re trying to sell, this always works.

A squeaky onion is an undercooked onion imo, same for celery and carrots. I give those vegetables a big headstart on everything else. They’re basically impossible to overcook and their best flavors come out when they’re soft through and through.

It’s actually 4

I gave it a try too, but I also got stuck on spoonerisms and malapropisms. Of the literary examples given by Malapropism (Wikipedia), could it be Constable Dogberry, Dogberryisms? He likes to use big words to sound imposing, but often says the opposite of what he intends:

Thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this.

Then we have Delusions of Eloquence, where a character is using big words wrong, to humorous effect.

Or the opposite, Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, where big words are used right.

If we’re looking for a trope that’s named after a character, maybe Asperger Syndrome fits the bill?

But no, I can’t find this specific variant either, if it was ever notable enough to get a name. Maybe you can think of more examples? Is it always the right word with the wrong shape? It sounds like something a child might do, because adults are more likely to do the wrong word with the right shape (a malapropism). Maybe a side character in Charlie Brown or Dennis the Menace.

I think I have a real 1kb version that looks better, but not on this phone. Have the big one instead for now.

Edit: I think the 1kb is just a legend. I do have this 3.9kb though (a lie again, it’s actually 3.4)

The hare was the second shooter on the grassy knoll.

So is Giorgos Mazonakis the new Malicious Advice Mallard?

I think the opposite is tomboys and it’s the older word that femboy is based on? But don’t quote me on that until I’ve checked en etymylogicimist.

Edit: ok, can’t find any sources to back this up, but tomboy is older and in a similar semantic space, so I’m still willing to claim that it was at least the inspiration for the shape of the word.

Is that the episode with Cesar Milan? I’m not saying his techniques won’t work for children, but…

I wonder if the video added anything to the text or if Tiktok is just twitter with mandatory face reveals.

A haiku is a traditional Japanese style of poetry that consists of three lines of specific lengths and uses a seasonal reference to describe a feeling.

They’re popular on the internet because they’re perceived as easy to write, being short with few rules. Sadly they don’t make a lot of sense in English, because English doesn’t really do syllables of uniform length and stress like Japanese has, so the effect is mostly lost.

When people say “this is a haiku”, they mean the syllable counts line up. They’re not saying “this is poetry”.

But if it was growing in Europe at that time, wouldn’t it be all over the place and be in books in the Middle Ages? Unless the Bronze Agers somehow smoked all of it.

Help, at one point I was younger than Shinji, but I am older than Misato now. But seriously, 30 is too young to be a cougar right?? She’s a young woman, an older sister to Shinji and Asuka.

You could make it single-use tokens and rate limit individual users when they request too many tokens in a short time. Someone could still share their tokens with a friend, but it doesn’t scale to where thousands are verifying with some stranger’s id.