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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • I mean, PTSD and anger at the animosity they received since coming here, a country that they literally betrayed their home for, kind of explains everything.

    I’m not saying there couldn’t be something deeper, but sometimes a flag just flaps because of the momentum imparted to it when it was screwed into the base and a lack of air resistance to halt that momentum, ya know? Newton’s first law, but for people. Or flags, in the metaphor. And on the moon, in case that wasn’t clear. It’s about a conspiracy about the moon landing being fa… I’m explaining too much, you get it.








  • This is a pathetic take. Dictionaries aren’t rules, they’re guides on how words are used. If a word is commonly used one way, then the dictionary needs to reflect that.

    And no, affect and effect will not be changed in the dictionary. People were using literally as an intensifier, which is why it got its new definition. Using effect instead of affect is just wrong, not semantic drift.