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“Sorry, boss. I am immersed in nature. I cannot take on any more projects.”

I'm sending this to my old wetlands ecology professor and I'm almost certain she's going to print this out and hang it in her office.

there is a phrase in scientific publishing where people plagiarize a paper but run it through a thesaurus to change certain words to make it less obvious. thing is, randomly picking things up from a thesaurus leads to what is called tortured phrases.

  • counterfeit consciousness
  • torment executioners

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  • AI
  • pain killers :::

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"Drain the nature immersion" doesn't quite feel the same.

I'm fully submersed in that swampussy.

This must be some sort of wetlander-humor

Instead of: I dispose of bodies by feeding them the gators in my swamp

Say: I recycle and enrich nature