I thought we were posting corn to return to actual shitposts, this one is too informative and interesting.
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I was hoping that by observing your comment these would collapse into the spelling "observation."
What does "malicious" mean here? Structural racism often doesn't have ill intent from any individual people, and nevertheless still affects people's daily lives.
We think in terms of tokens, too, but we have the ability to look under the hood at some of how our knowledge is constructed.
For the typical literate English speaker, we seamlessly pronounce certain letter combinations as different from the component parts (like ch, sh, ph, or looking ahead to see if the syllable ends in an E to decide how to pronounce the vowel in the middle). Then, entire words or phrases have a single meaning that doesn't get broken apart. Similarly, people who are fluent in multiple languages, including languages that use the same script (e.g., latin letters), can look at the whole string of text to quickly figure out which language they're reading, and consult that part of their knowledge base.
And usually our brains process things completely separately from how we read or write text. Even the question of asking how many r's are in "raspberry" requires us to go and count, because it isn't inherent in the knowledge we have at the tip of tongue. Someone can memorize a speech but not know how many times the word "the" appears in it, even if their knowledge contains all the information necessary to answer the question.
Even if we are actively thinking in the context of how words are constructed, like doing crosswords, these things tend to be more fun when mixed with other modes of thinking: Wordle's mix of both logic and spelling, a classic crossword's clever style of hints, etc.
Manipulation of letters is simply one mode of thinking. We're really good at seamlessly switching between modes.
On which scale? Because that kinda matters.
The rate of sweat I produce, in terms of ml of sweat per minute.
Italy was never a great empire.
Modern Italy does argue that it is the proper successor to the Roman Empire, but if you do look at the history of the nations (and city states) that rose and fell between the split of the Roman Empire into West and East/Byzantine around 395, and the formation of a unified Italy in 1861, that's a bit of a stretch.
That trailer looks pretty intriguing.
Yeah, it's funny either way, but would be even funnier if the answer had been correct.
"what you said was kinda racist"
"How dare you, I'm not a racist!"
The unacknowledged shift from the adjective form "racist" to the noun form "racist" is the best indicator that someone doesn't really get what racism actually is in real life.
As an example of why that's wrong, I can do something stupid without being a stupid.
Friggin euro steppers ruining basketball
The original screenshot is from Its Always Sunny, where the illiterate character has trouble pretending to be a philanthropist, because he can't pronounce the word "philanthropist," much less describe and understand what it means.
The comment you're replying to is just riffing in their own way, completely unrelated to the scene where the screenshot comes from.
I'm pretty sure his father gets arrested and he has to keep the family together by taking over their real estate development business.