PrimeErective

@PrimeErective@startrek.website
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It's gotta be 1.5C hotter on average for a decade, not just a year

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Figma balls

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Wahoo, Very nice

It says if you can read the sign, you're in range. It's an anomaly, after all.

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He's following you, about 30 feet back...

..... Oh my

Swing states are often referred to as "purple" because they don't consistently vote for just "red" or "blue"

We do what we want, because we can

24fps vision is a lie told by Hollywood so they can save on film

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Can we call such police "Starmtroopers"?

A new browser touches the beacon

Why is that ironic?

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I feel like the old guys in my area just talk about their health problems 😂

Something to look forward to, I suppose

If you get tired of the bugs, you can fight the robutts

God, is that why printers won't print black and white without color ink?!

Why not?

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What's this on your head?

A brain sucker!

What's it doing?

Starving!

That gets you in. How do you get back out?

Visualize whirled peas

I get that. Where is the irony? I think to be ironic there needs to be some air of unexpectedness. I certainly think it's amusing to say that you were buffing a nerf gun, but maybe not unexpected

But I think Alanis Morissette would be on board

And so was born the unfortunately named Epstein drive

Joanna!

Same

Why?

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I watched the first season and liked it, but something started feeling really artificial about the tension? Not sure, it was a while back

Have you watched Timeless? Sorta similar concept

Everyone knows there's no such thing as leftover crack

Why would I fight you? you're right

The first two have emphasis that imply something different than a simple question. Like you are asking a bunch of people individually, and you are directing each question at a specific person.

The last one would maybe be like, if the person did something weird, and you were sarcastically asking where the are from, to imply that they were raised by wolves, or something like that.

Point being, yes, you can ask like that, but it has different connotations than a simple question, which I think is where you would use the rising intonation.

Could you give some specific examples of questions in English that would not be asked with a rising tone at the end?

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I'm totally with you. I think it is somewhat speaker dependent, but that is how I would say those questions.

What's your NAme

How OLD (are you)?

Where are you FROm?

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Always wanted to learn, and I have a deck!

Honestly, same. I want to play it so bad, but never liked turn based stuff

I learned recently that there's a word for this, which is "thought-terminating cliche"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9

I guess in this example, "who is your daddy?" Is the main question, which has a somewhat flat intonation, but contrasted to the emphasis in the second half of the sentence, it feels like a rise

I guess Reading is not his strong suit

Love that this song seems to be getting a bit of a second wind

Weird that they would go to campus protests

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Right, the ones at campus protests were definitely police, so at least that part makes sense

Is it so surprising that someone might feel that way?

How about with sunshine/moonlight or Steam?