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  • You play a game where you have to memorize a random passphrase and recite it the next day for $1000, game repeats each day but with +1word and +$1000 prize; How many days can you continue this?

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  • That's reasonable. Hard to say how far I could get. I think I could 14 or so at least. Could probably get further if I can figure out a good way to memorize them.

  • You play a game where you have to memorize a random passphrase and recite it the next day for $1000, game repeats each day but with +1word and +$1000 prize; How many days can you continue this?

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  • I mean, how long do we have to look at/hear the new word? Is it just one and done? Or would there be time to memorize/internalize it?

  • You play a game where you have to memorize a random passphrase and recite it the next day for $1000, game repeats each day but with +1word and +$1000 prize; How many days can you continue this?

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  • How much time do we have to memorize it?

  • Harris on Trump: ‘We’re dealing with a communist dictator’

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  • Swing and a miss.

  • Harris on Trump: ‘We’re dealing with a communist dictator’

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  • That's a lot of words for "I still don't/won't realize what your point is". If you want to imagine enemies where there are none and waste energy argue against points no one you're talking to is making, that's your prerogative, but you're not going to achieve much. Good luck with that.

  • Harris on Trump: ‘We’re dealing with a communist dictator’

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  • Nope. Quotes don't work like that either. You don't get to just piecemeal the words in whatever order you want and claim "They literally said that!".

    Actual journalism deals with and communicates facts without distortion. Sometimes that's a "parrot job", and many times that includes personal insight, but it can never compromise on accuracy in reporting what actually happened. That's lazy, unprofessional, and a threat to the medium as a whole. Similarly, you insisting falsehood is "fact" doesn't make it so. It just erodes any credibility or merit your words carry, weakening your future statements that much more. You discredit yourself and everyone else that shares your stance.

    And, again, nothing I've said has anything to do with what she meant. I'm not saying your claims of her intent are wrong. This has nothing to do with "deniability" or "legalese", and trying to frame my point with some sort of counter-agenda is entirely unfitting.

    For what an actually credible title could look like -

    Harris Likens Trump to "communist dictators"

    Accurate, and even shorter. Took me all of 2 seconds. Whoever wrote the title of the article is a hack that's not worth the effort being put in to defend here.

  • Harris on Trump: ‘We’re dealing with a communist dictator’

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  • For someone so against meaningless arguments, you are quite insistent on continuing the argument about things I'm not talking about. For the fourth time now - it doesn't matter what she meant. Quotes in journalism (especially in headlines) are for verbatim statements, not paraphrased inferences.

  • Harris on Trump: ‘We’re dealing with a communist dictator’

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  • Your inference on what she meant doesn't change what she literally said.

  • Harris on Trump: ‘We’re dealing with a communist dictator’

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  • She literally didn't.

    We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump.

    Can it be presumed it's what she meant? Arguably. But presumptions are not quotes, and it's not acceptable to attribute a quote to someone that didn't say the words you are claiming they did.

  • Horst Wessel

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  • Useful because they can't argue, disprove, or otherwise disrupt the use of their person as a "perfect" hero of the movement.

  • Harris on Trump: ‘We’re dealing with a communist dictator’

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  • Misleading, editorialized title. Any worthwhile journalist wouldn't quote somebody on words they didn't literally say.

  • Horst Wessel

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  • People like heroes, alive or dead. Them being dead is just beneficial to those rewriting their history.

  • 'Read' and its past tense are spelled the same. How should they be spelled?

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  • My point is no one is wrong. Well, you are, but not for the way you spell things.

  • 'Read' and its past tense are spelled the same. How should they be spelled?

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  • Brits aren't "spelling it wrong" any more than those in the US are. It's just cultural differences. Do you also claim Germans spell things wrong? Or the Chinese?

  • Horst Wessel

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  • Did you read it? It wasn't a "cultural compulsion". It was a deliberate campaign to turn the memory of him into a complete fabrication and a fascist tool.

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    The US version of TikTok might be more concerning than the Chinese one

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  • "Might be".

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    Is fediverse turning into reddit?

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  • Their threats are bullshit, but so is brigading. That's not going to resolve anything.

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    Is fediverse turning into reddit?

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  • Did they go against their request? No. Demanding that people already complying with a request also feel and think the exact way you want them to is absurd.

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    Is fediverse turning into reddit?

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  • No, The thread is shitting on mods that threaten bans for disagreeing with them.