maryjayjay

joined 2 years ago
[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Library Genesis is down. Maybe for good

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes you can. Mathematicians do it all the time.

But that's beside the point. I can prove you didn't kill yourself by showing that someone else did

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some timezones are already half an hour off

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Adjuster

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The dictionary is descriptive, not proscriptive. Language evolves

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Literally has been used as an intensifier for over 200 years. The Oxford English Dictionary includes the definition of "figuratively". Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain all used it that way in their writing.

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It's their choice

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

When I was at Qualcomm we had an experimental, internally developed mobile OS that embraced the ubiquity of the browser and the power of apps written for the browser. The code name was b2f, which stood for "boot to Firefox"

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

When my Jewish roommate told his parents he was dating a gentile they told him he was "thinning the blood"

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Mfw my sophomore year in HS is "ancient"

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