It's "different from", not "different than", goddammit.
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Boneless wings are just chicken nuggets.
Them's just the facts, ain't they? Though I usually say chicken strips because they're often not one-bite sized.
Chicken strips are usually the tenderloin, and not processed pink slime.
Carmel should be the hard version and caramel is the soft kind.
"an historic" is wrong and terrible if you pronounce the "h"
Could you elaborate? I'm dumb.
According to my pet peeve, this looks fine? I just scrolled past a meme that said something like "download a ISO" and I was like gah, no, it's AN ISO.
I just saw a video from an etymologist about just this! Apparently the H used to be pronounced different a couple hundred years ago, and it's a carry over from that.
I was just recording me reading from a book. At a certain point, that sentence appears. An historical... Me, to myself: fuck it, I won't read that n.
Thirteen months, 28 days each + one day. (Plus another day when there is a leap year).
It would just work.
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That's a cool thought experiment on what we do with that extra day. Like super ball out cookout?
Day off for everyone, election day
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It would just be much easier to use UTC as the standard for all cross-timezone activities. The small portion of the population who needs to think about timezones would just have to add another timezone to their digital tools and the others won't have to do anything.
Found the person who believed in the Swatch Internet Time
Found the britain /s
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