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Grammarical Failings

Yesterday's Pearls Before Swine:


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Equal representation in the halls of quackery

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A new norm

A recent xkcd suggests the geothmetic meandian:

Mouseover title: "Pythagorean means are nice and all, but throwing the median in the pot is really what turns this into random forest statistics: applying every function you can think of, and then gradually dropping the ones that make the result worse."

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Compression

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Trouble at participle headquarters

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Laws

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The A.I. Apocalypse

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A second reason

Today's xkcd:

Mouseover title: ""I think I'll pass. These days I have a hard time feeling comfortable in crowded bars with loud music and lots of shouting." –me, after the pandemic, but now for a second reason"

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"We should not have brought a linguist"

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Language Evolution

Today's SMBC starts this way:

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Jabroni

The most recent Dinosaur Comics:

The mouseover title: "sorry to any jabronis reading this who didn't know yet that they were jabronis. honestly though that's such a jabroni situation to find yourself in"

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Morphological classiness

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A Laffer Curve for communication

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