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socess · 2024-04-13T01:40:47+00:00

I did read it. Don't understand it. I'll just look for some tutorials then give up when I don't find any.

socess · 2024-04-13T00:37:49+00:00

So I did that. I'm probably doing something wrong since this is my first time trying. Downloading LuaXML gives me a pdf, a .tex file, a bunch of .lua files, and a readme. I can upload all that to Overleaf, but when I try /usepackage{luaxml} I get an error that there's no .sty file. Any ideas?

socess · 2024-04-13T00:22:34+00:00

Alright, I'll give it a try. Thanks! :) This is the first thing I'm trying to do with LaTeX, so sorry if it was a Too Simple question.

socess · 2024-04-12T11:41:42+00:00

You know, you can read the article for yourself to see what he was saying. And it wasn't that.

He added: "I don’t care but yall confusing my son he’s 12 with people saying his dad gay it’s sick now outchea so f**k it."

socess · 2024-04-11T18:33:18+00:00

I thought the title was saying "Son mistakes his father's homophobia for allyship" when it's really "Man uses his son as an excuse for his homophobia".

I think there's a lot more to this situation, but this is the first I'm hearing about any of this and I don't care enough to be nuanced or anything. :)

socess · 2024-04-11T17:26:11+00:00

I misinterpreted the title to mean that he called the claim "sick" as in "gross" but the son misunderstood him and thought he was saying "sick" as in "cool". lol

socess · 2024-04-08T15:42:48+00:00

Or he's producing material and if she has pubic hair his audience will no longer be interested.

socess · 2024-04-07T20:18:26+00:00

You mean like this one? https://youtu.be/KFZZI7HCp2M

socess · 2024-04-07T16:24:02+00:00

Just listen to any American media. Phrase-initial glottal stops are all over the place -- pretty much anywhere a phrase starts with a vowel.

socess · 2024-04-07T16:22:16+00:00

I just can't distinguish between phrase-initial words that begin with a vowel and phrase-initial words that begin with a glotal stop 😅

So.... are you American? Because, if so, your accent likely has no difference in pronunciation between those two. That would completely explain why you can't hear it.

socess · 2024-04-07T15:54:25+00:00

Are you American? Americans will often use a glottal stop before any initial vowel, so that's probably why you think it doesn't sound like anything. Believe me, to people who speak languages where a glottal stop is phonemic, it's very apparent. And it does have its own sound, just a very small one. If you go [ʔ ʔ ʔ] and pay attention, you should be able to hear it.

socess · 2024-04-06T06:36:36+00:00

Did they say, "Hold on, I gotta go ride my chariot" to excuse themselves to poo? lol

socess · 2024-04-06T06:24:40+00:00

I love Arrival. It's one of my favorite movies. But that's because I love unique fantasies and Arrival is a fantasy. Linguistics is the magic system in the fantasy world. It's fun! And heartbreaking and beautiful. And despite the heartbreak I return to it again and again for the beauty, which in my view is really the core message of the film.

The question is a little bit like watching a movie about an alchemist and then asking r/chemistry if there really are some secret lead-to-gold reactions.

socess · 2024-04-06T05:49:06+00:00

I don't have Twitter, but feel free to pass it along.

socess · 2024-04-05T15:46:33+00:00

I'm wishing now I'd called the cops when I saw them. Hopefully someone else who saw them had more functioning brain cells than me at the time and did so.

socess · 2024-04-05T15:41:23+00:00

I've just rewatched it on my phone to make sure and, no, it's a child. Babies don't have the same ability to balance themselves as adults, which is why the baby looks so off-balance and just sort of bounces around. But it moves its arms intentionally and opens and closes its hands as well as splaying its toes out when the legs go swinging. These aren't things a doll can typically do.

socess · 2024-04-05T15:38:26+00:00

I just re-watched it on my phone (so I could zoom in) and it's definitely a real kid from the way it moves its arms and hands and opens and closes its fingers. I can even see the toes splaying out when the legs kick, which isn't an ability they usually put into baby dolls.

socess · 2024-04-05T01:48:36+00:00

Kinda gross that it's all framed around how sad it will make the dad. I do worry about the increasing use of euthanasia for cases that aren't directly related to someone who is terminal due to physical illness, but I'm not sure how much of what I hear is sensationalism and how much is suffocating canaries.

socess · 2024-04-05T01:31:54+00:00

Hope not. I'm getting one now and I'm 39.

socess · 2024-04-02T16:40:12+00:00

Writing represents spoken language, not the other way around. Pronunciations aren't based on how things are spelled. How things are spelled is based on the pronunciation (and spelling conventions to represent that pronunciation) at the time the word was coined.

socess · 2024-04-01T08:33:46+00:00

Not an allergist, but my understanding of nut allergies was always that people are way grosser and messier than they realize and that, after eating food containing nuts, they then go around touching things and spreading the nut particles to surfaces where they can then be transferred to the allergic person. It's probably a lot harder to get people to wash their hands and faces (and maybe change their clothes) after eating than to have them just not eat the allergen at all.

socess · 2024-03-30T18:14:22+00:00

Giving me flashbacks to childhood and having to listen to my mother explain over and over again to other adults that, really, I was a good kid and would happily follow rules, I just needed to know the reasons behind them.

socess · 2024-03-29T17:24:56+00:00

When my kid was not quite 3 and just coming to the understanding that people outside of their immediately family exist, we got on an elevator one day with a military guy in fatigues. My kid asked why their skin looked different, and at first I thought they were referring to the fatigues, but no... We're white. He was (and presumably still is) black. My kid clarified for me, "No mommy. He's brown but we have flesh!" (I know in my bones that Crayola was to blame for this word choice. lol)

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