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can i use a calculator on the ap french exam

this mother fucker trying to solve french

#quatre vignt dix #i think? #I'm only like in chapter 2 on babbel #and i keep forgetting to do my lessons #bc traffic has been so bad i don't have time to do it before work #and then I've been so tired or pissed off from work #i haven't had evening time #but i must make time #otherwise how will i improve??

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leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

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the humble "like" is oft mocked despite what it does for us. "like, three people" is a vastly different statement from "three people". "and i was like 'what the fuck'" is vastly different from "and i said 'what the fuck'". i love you "like" and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight

#like is important! #it serves a role in the sentence! #changes meaning in that's being conveyed!

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dream sandman’s hair energy

[stick figure-y doodle of dream and matthew in which dream’s hair is a mess of squiggles]

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I walked up to a restaurant entrance at the same time as this guy and he held the first door for me and then I held the second door for him and he said "we call that the Midwestern two-step" with a laugh and I've been thinking about it all day.

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FRIENDS 5.17 “The One with Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss"

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imo the best way to interpret those “real people don’t do x” writing advice posts is “most people don’t do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.” human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we can’t make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.

for example, most people don’t address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.

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know the difference!

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when doctors ask if i have any history of cancer in my family and i have to say that yes my grandmother had 2 types of gastrointestinal cancer and they're like oh wow okay so we'll keep an eye out for that but i'm like no it was probably just all the nuclear radiation and they're like ok hm ok what the fuck do you mean and it's very weird seeing the look on american doctors' faces when you have to explain to them that believe it or not atomic bombs were dropped on this earth 2 generations ago and it did have consequences

#if you'll allow me a slight tangent #at the doctor a few months ago and they're asking about like family cancer history #and i said oh my mom has cancer #but it's from the hpv virus #and the doctor goes 'oh good' #and then had to back pedal #like oh no not good that she has cancer but good that it's not one that's got a genetic element #so bad but a also good #mans was struggling #anyways be sure to get your hpv vaccinations #they're a thing now they're relatively new #but go and get them

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the fundamental tension between wanting to dissociate modes of dress from gender and people wanting to use modes of dress to signify their gender so they don't have to play the Pronoun Game

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saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

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#Judaism and Islam i believe acknowledge Jesus as a prophet #he plays a role in all abrahamic religions #it's just Christianity that has him as the messiah #as more than a prophet

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maybe cain wldnt have killed abel if they had video games to healthily channel the violence between siblings. unfortunately back then the only smash brothers they had was smash brothers head in with a rock

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True solidarity is sitting in a google doc with your classmates late at night. We're in it together, anonymous chinchilla.