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Jon Bakos
@jonbakos.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor of TESL and Linguistics at Indiana State University. Sociolinguistics. He/him
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Return of the Jedi for me. My babysitter when I was 3 really wanted to see it

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My mom is one of them. The treatment for her cancer didn't exist until 15 years ago - she's been cancer-free for six years, but if she'd gotten it in 1999, she'd be dead

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Is the first symbol always pronounced as 'Kaw' or is it because it's at the start of the word?

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They just need long enough for everyone to forget how much they wrecked everything, and then they'll be back just fine. Soooo, like six months

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As the showrunners have pointed out, the politics of the show aren't exactly subtle

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The understanding that The Right People get to have unlimited guns and unlimited right to fuck up The Wrong People whenever they feel like

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I get cranky if a story is inconsistent with rules it set for itself, but otherwise yeah

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When I got my Kia EV6, there was no longer any reason to consider a Tesla. There's so many other great options out there that you sacrifice nothing if you choose not to buy from the evil fascist guy. It's the opposite - you'd have to want the fascism so bad that you give up other features

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if they actually believed their AI "writing" was in any way passable on merit, they would simply publish it as good writing instead of trying to sell it as AI writing .They know it sucks. The fact a machine sucked at it is supposed to be the novelty. They arent even pretending its worth reading

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Jon Bakos
@jonbakos.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor of TESL and Linguistics at Indiana State University. Sociolinguistics. He/him
200 followers317 following292 posts