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I’m the one that reported that comment. You were being unnecessarily rude, and have been to other people on here

Welp, I regrettably checked this out. Much like other folks have said, this is just a platform for hate speech and conspiracy theorists. Do not recommend

So the likes of The Quartering, Babylon Bee, and JP Sears on the front page don’t bother you?

Edit: Whoops, I somehow missed Stephan fucking Molyneux

ESL means “English as a Second Language,” so no need to get snarky. LLM means “large language model”. I was complaining generally, not at you, but with other comments you made I am now less sure

100% agree, and now it is so hard to tell if the spelling oddities are an ESL thing or an LLM thing

That is good to hear. Still not my jam, but always better to have a welcoming community

I think tactics can pretty easily be done while rping. They mostly want you not to use modern terms and follow the personality of your character as far as I can tell

I don’t think practicality is really the point, but I also am not a fan of all roleplay. It tends to be pretty hostile to new players

In most games/servers that enforce roleplay, it is a ban. Either temp or permanent

How do you figure that?

Hand stitched

You can also de-DRM the Amazon books with a Calibre plugin called deDRM. I recently did it to all my Amazon ebooks (had a lot for basically the same reasons as you, plus I worked there).

I don’t think they were bought by anyone, but their distributor did recently approve them for ads. I suggested that as a possibility, but she was pretty sure it was PocketCasts inserting them. We shall see either way.

My partner noticed a ton of ads in a similar situation (listening to older podcasts). She was also under the impression these older casts did not have ads, but she is getting more and more each listen. Maybe it is the creator inserting them in older episodes, but she is trying AntennaPod, so we shall see

Vernacular is specifically used for informal language, and in this particular case, linguists did not want to imply slang. I am not a linguist, but the sources I found from people who study AAE cited that as the reason for the name change

It was AAVE for a long time, and momentum is a hell of a thing. Ultimately whatever the culture wants to call it, it is really up to them.

Of note here, AAVE is an outdated term. AAE - African American English (still a little outdated) or AAL - African American Language (the newest, most accurate term) are more accurate. Linguists dropped the “Vernacular” because it is not a slang language, and are starting to change “English” to “Language” because it is most likely derived from creole, not English

It is not just slang, though. It is a whole language that black folks have been constantly asking white people to stop using as slang. This is just one public instance of it happening

That is a blue light filter, so you shouldn’t need a third party filter. The science just isn’t out there to show whether or not it helps with sleep, though. It might help, but other things like not using screens within a couple hours to bed and not using phones in bed has better outcomes.

Nobody was angry. Also, words have multiple uses. Just because it was used in Pulp Fiction in the BDSM context does not mean it doesn’t carry the ableist definition.