Mathematics?
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Ultimately there’s a judgement call involved
Similarly, the redundancy in the phrase “math pedantry” is also shortened to just “mathematics”
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and linguistic pedantry to linguistics
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Wait, we know we have yebellz the pedant and Vsotvep the mathematician here. Are you telling me you are one and the same person???
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You could say that me and yebellz have never been observed in the same room, but that’d be a lie…
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Not Elon Musk caught lying and bragging about something he paid for but he pretends he “made it on his own merit”? 
Not that it was almost certain that he was lying in the first place. Normal people don’t have time for that, but somehow he wanted everyone to believe that he does? I barely found the time to watch that 3 minute video. 
(somehow that he thinks that his “gaming accolades”, even if they were real, are a flex still seems odd to me…)
It’s still true that probably no one else on the ogf (nor >99.99999% of humanity) has observed us in the same room
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See how close to the surface it’s always boiling beneath.
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The point is more like “companies do not care. Profit is all that matters”. So, they go with the current flow or fad that rakes in the money and attracts investors.
People that buy merchandice because they think that a company supports them should probably be feeling a bit embarrashed by getting duped like that.
The pendulum swings and the money follows… or the money swings and the pendulum follows. It depends on whether you believe that the customers have any power or they are just consumers. 
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These days I really wish I could rage-quit X and facebook.
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As someone who calmly left both, I don’t miss Twitter at all. Facebook: I do miss marketplace as it’s the biggest B,S&S in my country. I also miss messenger as an easy way to message acquaintances I otherwise have no need to know the phone number of. The rest isn’t that hard to work around.
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I’ve never felt the need to read Twitter, but I have an empty Facebook account to access useful content on Facebook. And it’s difficult to survive nowadays without WhatsApp, which belongs to the same company.
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Last year it admitted to finding children working in its factories in China.
You’ve got to love the, oh-so-careful wording on those things… no AI-generated stuff when it comes to executive excuses. As if you do not hire workers yourself, you just open a factory and whoever passes by, just goes “hey, I’ll work here this month!” and thus you “happen to find them there” and you have no responsibility of who wandered in and put in some work.
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I wonder if they’ll sell more this way. It’s certainly good publicity.
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I’ve never signed up to Twitter but the thing that annoys me is when for example public transport like to use Twitter to announce service disruptions and then randomly Twitter will either decide to revoke access to non logged in users, or allow access again but absolutely scramble the time ordering for the posts, so the most recent and relevant post is nowhere to be seen, but guess what interesting thing they said in 2019?
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Probably they weren’t selling any before, but awesome marketing idea indeed. I am very impressed. Like that restaurant in Thessaloniki that vehemently refused to sell french fries and had made that oddity its main marketing selling point.
The invention of the Hawaiian pizza is often credited to Sam Panopoulos, who emigrated from Greece to Canada in 1954 at the age of 20 and ran several restaurants in Ontario with his two brothers.
I was not aware of that, but it make sense. Have you eaten watermellon with feta cheese? Some people here seem to have a craving for an overdose of salt and fructose, so it checks out.
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Reminds me of this post.
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I wonder how Australia is so similar to Canada. Here pineapple pizza is one of the most popular, easily in the top 3 or 4, we call it a “Hawaiian”, also our “chips, cheese, and gravy” is not too dissimilar to Canada’s poutine, except for ours we usually use shredded cheddar cheese.
It’s occurring to me that I’ve only listed two things… but i wanna post anyway haha
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