I have IBS and capsaicin has never been a trigger for me. I can eat spicy food all day and be fine, but if I even so much as look at a piece of romaine I’ll be on the toilet all evening.

I think this is what’s known in some places as “sarcasm”.

Very Worm coded

I think I’m too American to get this.

So, disclaimer here that I’m not a linguist, I just enjoy learning about linguistics.

OED doesn’t have a Norman ancestor for English wasp - it goes back through Old English (wæfs, wæps, wæsp) to Saxon and Middle German/Dutch all the way back to pre-Germanic.

My guess here was that there’s a common Proto-Indo-European ancestor and Wiktionary, FWIW, agrees - they provide a reconstructed P.I.E word: *wóbʰseh₂ (“wasp”)

ETA: here’s the link to the OED online’s etymology page and a screenshot of it if you don’t have access through your library.

That’s…my point?

It’s called “metathesis”. We did it over hundreds of years with ‘bird’ which was originally ‘brid’ or ‘bridd’, and ‘wasp’ which was originally ‘waps’, apparently.

especially after getting that pawjob…

This isn’t even close to being true. 83% of black voters backed Harris in 2024, with 15% voting for Trump. That’s notable because it’s a significant decrease from Biden receiving 92% of the black vote, but whites are the only major racial group of which the majority voted for Trump in 2024.

If only this picture had more jpeg artifacts. I can almost read the text on this one… 😅

It’s NYT Pitchbot. They’re a pretty well known satire account

Makes me miss the days when Polygon wasn’t a hollowed out husk of its former self and was making art like this

Pretty sure this blog is fully ChatGPT text. All the signs are there, em dashes all over the place, “It’s not just x; it’s y”, lists of adjectives. Also, this is basically just an ad.

It’s like the hornier version of Steiner Math

Mad Gab/Incohearent are essentially this. They’re fun little party games

Even the label doesn’t want to go to Alabama.

Botox injections are used as a treatment for migraines sometimes, so it wouldn’t be that weird for this conversation to happen in that context. (I know it’s a joke)

He just said he was on a hill…

¿Por qué no los dos?