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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · Feb 28

anyway periodic reminder that congress can at any time they wish, and should tomorrow, end this

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 3h

CISA, not FEMA, I think

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4h

Temperament is like one of the very top things the public should assess in a candidate. The idea there is no public interest in it is crazy to me

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5h

Kids will be kids etc etc, but that is a dessert not a NY Bagel(TM)

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5h

Anyway, I love NYC but this city has strong opinions about How To Bagel and you should not fight them on it

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5h

Too many people confusing "this is tasty and I like it" for "this is going to cause grumbling in New York City if you declare it to be your bagel and want to represent them"

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5h

100%

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5h

Feel like we could class ingredients by NYC danger, like
Green zone: plain/everything, cream cheese, lox OR egg, bacon, cheese
Amber zone: poppy bagel, tomatoes, capers
Red zone: basically anything else

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5h

Tbf it was called Elīḥā at the time, but yes

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5h

Probably Batman city, where they found oil and was massively expanding in the 40s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman,...

Batman, Turkey - Wikipedia

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 6h

Half of my life: you must exhaustively describe the background, relevant people, each part and reasoning in the decision in detail, and list counterarguments and rebuttals

The other half: you have 2 minutes to persuade me to give you 10 minutes of attention, why are you waffling on

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, the reason is it is a blatant hatch act violation, and previous administrations cared more about that

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 7h

Oof. Tho still wild to me word doesn't loudly bang drums and set off sirens when this you try and export a pdf with this error because it happens *all the time* and nobody in the history of documents has ever had it happen without it being an error they wanted to correct before sending the doc

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 8h

Feel like this site needs a setting for posts that allows you to post something that isn't about the chaos of this admin which blocks replies or quotes that try to bend the topic back to that

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 9h

Right, it's like putting ice cream on a steak; it's not that either are bad individually—they are not—but the combination feels like it should be illegal

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 11h

It's the same with adjective ordering (so in phrases you get tick-tock, not tock-tick; ping pong, not pong ping; bish bash bosh not bosh bish bash) and in adjectives it's the same process, just reordering the adjective pair

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, the fancy name for the IAO rule is "ablaut reduplication"

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 11h

For two adjectives, no. Ask a native if they'd say a "little old lady" or an "old little lady".

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 11h

Feel like if you are running for NY mayor your campaign manager should tell you that bagels for you are now plain or everything and with cream cheese and lox until further notice or they will immediately resign

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 11h

Lol, yep. In general: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose. But where there are two adjectives and one of them has an 'i' sound then adjective order follows vowel sounds in the preference order IAO

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 11h

No, because of the two-adjective IAO rule

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 11h

Total aside but it remains one of my favorite "English language is bizarre" factoids that there are not just one but *two* adjective ordering rules that every native speaker religiously follows, has never heard of or thinks about, and getting it wrong makes the sentence sound insane

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 11h

opinion, size, age (teenage), shape (mutant), colour, origin, material, purpose (ninja).

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 11h

but it's TMNT because of the English adjective ordering rule

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12h

Was so close to being like "eh, not for me, but ok" and then it got to "on a cinnamon raisin bagel" lmao

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 13h

go you
through the town to Frogmore.

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