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@anothernbwriter @Archwinger1 @layxsnv I’m not missing the point, you inverted the sentence; the original sentence was not clear. What we are debating is whether you should rewrite the sentence, or a perfectly reasonable punctuation, nationally agreed upon, should be inserted.

@L_editrixie @Archwinger1 @layxsnv I think you're missing the point, the first dude said the Oxford comma is essential for clarity. I'm saying it's not. Essential means absolutely necessary, and if we take into account context (which IS essential in discourse), the comma is no longer essential.

Okay, where are the English scholars, which one?

@anothernbwriter @Archwinger1 @layxsnv No, not at all. It’s very clear with the extra comma. If you have to invert the sentence *purely for the sake of a comma*, you’re doing it wrong. I’m glad your native language neatly sidesteps this issue. It’s not a call for you to constrict English.

@L_editrixie @Archwinger1 @layxsnv You're not doing it wrong, you're simply clearer on your writing. Also, you might not even need the comma if you have context. Sentences don't live in isolation. In Spanish we don't have that issue in this case, the verb calls for a preposition for the direct complement.

@RGW_TF93 @AlexAndBooks_ Okay no

@AlexAndBooks_ Attending a comedy show counts as reading. Watching a movie counts as reading. Talking with a friend counts as reading AND writing. Listening to a lecture counts as reading. Meditating counts as reading. Playing hockey counts as reading.

Ebooks count as reading. Print books count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Braille books count as reading. The only thing that doesn't count as reading is not reading.

@AlexAndBooks_ I would say an automatic Yes to all of these but I know that there is a trend, especially prevalent among those who consume mostly video content, to listen to everything on 2x speed. You can’t really be considered to have read something consumed at 2x speed.

@anothernbwriter @Archwinger1 @layxsnv If you have to write around a comma, you’re doing it wrong. I’m curious about what your native language does in this instance.

@Archwinger1 @layxsnv Or you can learn to write more clearly and simply say "We invited John, Jane and my parents". Avoiding ambiguity is a sign of good writing style and no, my first language is not English.

@Archwinger1 @layxsnv I would like to thank my parents, Mother Theresa and the Pope. The serial comma makes sense!

@layxsnv The Oxford comma is essential for clarity: "We invited my parents, John and Jane." -- My parents' names are John and Jane "We invited my parents, John, and Jane." -- four guests are attending: my two parents, plus John and Jane

@WayneTheWebGuy @HistoryBoomer No, it wasn’t. It was coined by Trump supporters who could not bear anything even remotely critical of their favored politician.

@HistoryBoomer It doesn't change the fact that the DNC's messaging needs to pivot from 100% anti-Trump to actual agenda-based solutions with which their base can finally connect to, and support. The initialism "TDS" was actually coined because of this very specific and totally obvious flaw.

On TDS... What if, and give me some rope here, what if Trump is actually very, very bad, and being very upset about that is reasonable, not deranged?

@BenSchifman Oh really. And how much do these data centers pay?

Narrative violation: with the right policy, new data centers can *lower* electricity prices by spreading the fixed costs of the grid out among more paying customers.

@BurnieSendersX @ewarren Look, these issues are very serious and have huge repercussions. Posting low-effort “oooh, burn!”s is hugely detrimental to things that truly have the potential to be life-or-death issues. Just stop.

AI data centers use massive amounts of electricity. But the solution is not to make the tech giants pay. The solution is to let the bureaucratic machine take full control of AI and energy. We will decide who gets power, who pays, and who benefits. This is how we create real fairness. The 5 year plan is perfect. ☭

A single AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 households—and utility companies are passing the upgrade costs to you, not to the trillion-dollar tech giants. I've opened an investigation. These companies need to pay their costs.

@ewarren Thank you!

@chi_quiero What is this AI crap?

Brilliant!👌 😂😂😂

@DoctorLemma Do you have a link?

There’s a shoe that adjusts and expands five sizes and lasts a child up to five years. It was invented by a young American named Kenton Lee, who was volunteering at an orphanage outside Nairobi, Kenya in 2007. Walking to church one day with the children, he looked down at a girl beside him in a white dress and saw she’d cut open the front of her shoes so her toes could stick out. Her feet had outgrown them and no new ones were coming. He went home to Idaho and spent the next six years figuring out how to build a shoe that could grow with a child. Nike, Adidas, Crocs, and Toms all turned the idea down. He ended up buying 20 pairs of Crocs himself and cutting them up to prototype it. The Shoe That Grows finally launched in 2014. Around 400,000 pairs have now been distributed in over 100 countries. Over 1.5 billion people worldwide get sick from soil parasites that enter the body through bare or exposed feet. Mostly children.

@ThatEricAlper Happy Birthday, probably.

If you had to sing one song and get all of the lyrics correct to avoid death, what would it be?

@zeezahtoye That’s just gorgeous.

I got questions asking if it was a dress. This answers your question I guess

@soyoprincess @sglockett @HollyBell8 AND only if they notice and complain!

@sglockett @HollyBell8 If the restaurant allows this to take place, then they should be happy to put a warning sign up in the entrance to allow customers to make an informed decision. Funny that they don’t say anything til ppl are filmed. AND their credit cards!

Regarding my viral tweet: We need to draw lines somewhere. I’m drawing a hard line at dining in restaurants that allow their servers to record their customers, and potentially their credit cards, without consent. Whether or not they post it online. I don’t wish to dine with a camera shoved in my face. Security cameras do not enter my personal space like servers do. BTW: It was not a national chain, but a locally owned restaurant.

@simonmaechling I’ll have you know I read *72* tweets about hantavirus and saw five TikToks, and if that doesn’t make me an expert, I don’t know what does.

Yesterday eveyone here was an expert on Hantavirus. Today the same people are experts on norovirus. 🥱

@jonathandoomer “Now every ad, every song, every image online has this faint chemical aftertaste to it.” I like that way of putting it. Yes.

I’m not anti-AI. I like MRI machines. I like collision avoidance systems in airplanes. I like software that can detect cancer before a doctor can. I like machine vision systems that stop factory workers from getting their hands crushed in hydraulic presses. That’s what computers are supposed to do. Cold. Precise. Mechanical. I don’t need a technology to “express itself.” The problem started when Silicon Valley decided the machine should paint. The machine should write poetry. The machine should compose symphonies and generate films and imitate the human soul like a skinwalker wearing a beret. Now every ad, every song, every image online has this faint chemical aftertaste to it. Like the entire culture is being slowly replaced with synthetic substitutes because executives realized audiences consume slop at the same rate they consume art. And the worst part is they call this “democratizing creativity.” No. Creativity was already democratized. A guy with a guitar and 3 friends in a garage could make something beautiful. A college kid with a cracked copy of Photoshop could make an album cover that changed someone’s life. What they actually democratized was content production. Factories. Throughput. Infinite generation. A machine can diagnose my low testosterone. Fine. I just don’t want it writing the eulogy.

@b_fink One project I remember from school: the teacher assigned iirc 5 books to the class and separated us into groups to read one. Everyone in the group read the book and chose a part to present: setting, characters, plot, etc. At the end we had 5 presentations. It got us all engaged.

Catch-22: Assign several novels to students per year. Students don't/won't read at home. Resort to reading novels in class. Can't get through the novels. What's the solution, people?

@Sarahhuniverse I hate these horribly fake AI renditions, they make my skin crawl.

Farewell to the Icons 💔 © star.evolution1

@Arbal47 That is the sweetest thing. 🥹 What is it from?

How Old are you Robert 😂😂 #funny