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We don't know Kristi didn't eat it...
  • Cuz he's an obnoxious, blatantly incendiary grifter (but he's a grifter who shits on the people we don't like, so we gotta stan him here because tribalism!).

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    Dallas police officer 'executed,' 2 others injured in targeted shootings: Chief
  • Unless you’re suggesting that this man was involved in that situation, there’s room to feel sympathy for both murder victims.

    This cop is either one of the ones committing atrocities, or one of the ones that stand by, hold the "thin blue line", and enable the ones committing atrocities.

    ACAB has no exceptions.

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    Stained Glass
  • Great question! The answer is that, well, you don't, but that's not what I'm intending unstained to mean here.

    As it turns out, "unstained" is structurally ambiguous, because English has two different "un-" prefixes, each of which has different functions and different category selection requirements.

    The first attaches to verbs, and means "reverse the action of", e.g. un-tie, un-do, un-stain, etc. The second attaches to adjectives, and means "not X", e.g. un-happy, un-satisfied, etc.

    So, if we want to form the word "undoable", we can either take the verb "do" and attach "-able" first, giving us an adjective "doable" to which we can then add "un-" to give us "undoable", an adjective meaning "not able to be done" ("Flying by flapping your arms is undoable")
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    We can take "do" and add the other "un-" first, giving us a verb "undo" meaning "to reverse the action of something" to which we can then add the suffix "-able", giving us "undoable", a different adjective meaning "able to be undone" ("Simple knots are easily undoable")

    So, while both of these look and sound like the same word, they actually have different structures that correspond to the differences in their meanings.

    In my OP, you read "unstained" as "unstain-ed", with "un-" attaching to "stain" to give a verb "unstain" meaning "to reverse the staining of", and then added the participle suffix, while my intended structure was to attach "stain" and "-ed" first, giving a participle (adjective) "stained", to which we can then add the other prefix "un-", giving "un-stained" "not stained".

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    Star Wars Outlaws Patch 1.000.002 Is Stranding Some PS5 Players in Space, Forcing Them to Start New Saves
  • ...forcing Them to Start New Saves after paying $110 for early access.

    Personally, I'm always happy to see the consumers taking an active role in making gaming worse getting burned by their bad decisions.

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    American magic rule
  • More like those Ancestral Archers down in Siofra. They're hitting me with railguns travelling at Mach 12 from halfway across the map.

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    Cost of running the Olympics
  • I think blue and red are supposed to be "Profit" and "Loss", not revenues and costs, since I'm pretty sure all Olympics have both revenues and costs. Also, the Y-axis is already labeled deficit and surplus, so why not just use those instead of conflicting, misleading terms?

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    Report: 82% of US gamers made an in-game purchase in freemium titles in 2023
  • Six years ago I tossed Warframe 10 bucks before I stopped playing to thank them for 500 amazing free hours, but that's literally the only time I've ever made any sort of freemium purchase.

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    in your opinion which cartoon series timed their cinema movie debut perfectly?
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The movie debuted at the height of turtlemania in 1990 and became the highest grossing independent film ever at the time. It's also a genuinely good movie.

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