FriendOfDeSoto

Bootleg records were a thing in Europe in the days of reel to reel tape as the only alternative. It wasn't so much that people did it privately but people would try to make a buck through re-sale and especially on flea markets where oversight by the law was virtually nonexistent. Rare records have always been a thing. Bootleggers tried to profit off it.

I was bequeathed my parents' record collection of about 200 LPs. One was a bootleg they kept, some rare Beatles stuff. Other ones were thrown away because the quality was bad or would have been deteriorating to a point where it became unlistenable.

I don't think this is about punctuation marks, this is about tone. It's about "tone." beCaUse IT's aBOuT toNE. BECAUSE IT'S ABOUT FUCKING TONE!

English does a lot with how you say something. I didn't give her the money. Try saying that phrase and stress a different word each time. If you see it written down, you are missing an awful lot if you're unlucky

Air quotes don't really need an accompanying gesture to make them be understood. Giving the gesture anyways is just making sure people don't misunderstand it. And we are used to this doublespeak from our elected leaders. So adding "in air quotes" in speech and gesture is often a dig, a comedic device, and a deliberate act to fraternize with the other people who know what's up.

We need a community for something like a banned on reddit therapy group. For people wgaf.

How can you live anonymous? Off the grid maybe in a log hut in the woods. If you're in a vehicle, you'll need license plates. If you buy land there needs to be a name on the deed. You can obscure those maybe behind company names if you make the effort. But there will be a paper trail.

If you buy land, you might as well invest into a more comfy tiny house with solars on the roof and dig a nice pit for the toilet. Keep chicken and grow veggies or something.

"More than 40 years after the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster and the end of the Teacher in Space program, Superman was chosen to lift a crew of exclusively science teachers into orbit today. Unfortunately, he was struck by an asteroid containing kryptonite at an altitude of approximately 120 miles. As a result, the vessel and Superman burned up in the atmosphere. The chief of NASA has resigned. The president has ordered Space Force to mount an attack on the planet Krypton."

You cannot escape generalizations. Case in point: "rest of the world." There is no such thing. So the best you can aspire to is the subordinate clause apostille. "X is Iranian but fled from the mullahs." "Y is American but a Sanders type socialist." I don't have any idea why these two nationalities came into my head first.

Find your subordinate clause and live it. Actions speak louder than Insta posts.

Isn't it telling that this rage bait is posted by a bot?

You could get yourself an espresso and enjoy a good article.

They struggle with what they call AI still so not any time soon. Welcome to the hockey stick.

I would sooner invest into a really long, reasonably well insulated hose to hang out the nearest window. If you can manage that sub 3 yards and the hose doesn't dip too much below it's exhaust vent height, I think this solution might beat DIY ice pack dehumidifiers.

Get a video camera to film you while you write and screen record what you do on your laptop. That way you have proof that you didn't use models. And I'm only half joking.

As much as I loathe to suggest this: maybe you should try to prompt some models on topics you write on. Just to see what it spits out so you can avoid sounding alike. Same for visuals it would come up with.

Or you could see if some industrious fellow student has found a copy of the software the faculty use to do a trial run. It may have fallen off a truck somewhere. Happens all the time! Just make sure you protect yourself.

The "zero occupant problem"

The fact that this has a name is such an indictment of failures in urban planning. I'm going to assume an American coined the term because a lot of other places have not fought the idea of public transport as much as the American automobile industry.