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territory mapper. 💉did @ca_covid . 🗣️ likes languages. ✈️ Repatriate/ABCD. 👨‍🔬 Formerly physics. he/him

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@ManishEarth
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I'm on bluesky as well, @manishearth .bsky.social unsure what I plan to do there
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someone please explain to me why the YouTube office has a 3 4 2 W̵ diamond what do they have in there i drank the water should I be worried
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@eevee A small fraction of people can voluntarily flex a muscle in their ear and rumble their tympanum (sounds like thunder). They can also often use this to equalize pressure without yawning. People with this ability (me) usually don't know it's special and think everyone can do it.
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finding a process on linux finding a cat 🤝 ps ps ps ps
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This is a PHENOMENAL little paper The general point is that tests educators were using to evaluate linguistic competency were highly artificial (e.g. ordering the child to talk), and therefore didn't capture the creativity & complexity within the children's language
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@SophiaArmen working towards world chickpeace
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DYING
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ever think about how animal life never figured out how to move past "embryogenesis happens in the ocean" phase so oviparous land animals make eggs that "contain ocean" and viviparious animals have pregnancies where they simulate an ocean inside themselves ... me either
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i have literally never seen an nfpa diamond this spicy on a tech company office I'm legitimately stumped what it could be it's not cooking or cleaning chemicals
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@Theophite india does this all the time, it's standing policy, the problem is raw materials
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a very good guess for the bio 3: ammonia cooling loops for servers (the pipelines might go through non-server areas so the building needs the sign)
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@__femb0t wow looks like a place of honor I wonder if anything valued is there
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@DylanMcD8 they tell you (and really, they tell firefighters) the dangerousness the chemicals one may encounter blue: health hazard red: flammability yellow: chemical instability scale goes up to 4
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reminder for your multilingual "welcome" signs: if you don't handle Arabic directionality correctly, you're liable to say "forbidden daddy" instead scores of airports and such across the world telling folks about the forbidden daddies (examples from )
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inb4 "youtube is toxic" jokes
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illustration of how ridiculous this is when you start thinking about cetaceans
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sometimes there's a Bad Take and you never actually saw the Take but you see the third order subtweet ripple and logically work backwards to guess the Take anyway this is basically how we detect most uncommon particles in accelerators and cloud chambers
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non-fungible
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@xoxogossipgita someone effectively named their kid Wolfy McWolf and he got bitten by a werewolf as a kid the werewolf who bit him? Also kinda named Wolfy McWolf (Fenrir is the Norse wolf), also not canonically born a werewolf so the thing that predicts a werewolf bite is probably your name
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@redditships she's 100% got a painting up there of herself that gets old while she stays young
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i have always wondered how the dutch residents of the hague feel about their city being globally synecdoche'd as "the place you go for doing war crimes"
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some personal news
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@IPTVmanreal people are too afraid of the chemicals that may spill out if they replace it
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is your child texting about POLICE ABOLITION? FTP: Fuck The Police SSH: Stop Shooting Humans SCP: Suspend Cop Pay SMB: Sabotage the Men in Blue SFTP: Seriously, Fuck The Police
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the fact that diatomaceous earth gets rid of bedbugs is one of the most occult-sounding useful facts I know "the way to get rid of a plague of miniature vampires is to surround them with skeletons from eras long past"
@iwsfutcmd
iwsfutcmd (is back in 🇸🇷 Suriname)
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getting rid of them isn't actually that hard—they can't take temperatures above 49°C/120°F (a clothes steamer gets hot enough) and diatomaceous earth wipes them out
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@ManishEarth
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as someone who reads tweets in 4-5 languages, i don't want this as someone who occasionally tweets in multiple non-english languages, i don't want this as someone who has significant amounts of tweets in languages I don't speak on my TL, I don't want this
@zingword
Zingword
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#Twitter is testing automatic translations for tweets, meaning that they will force all tweets to be displayed in the #language set by the user. (Which is, in my frankest opinion, both invasive and unnecessary): #xl8 #MT #t9n #translation #socialmedia
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you know how folks on insta/tiktok censor their captions by misspelling, using asterisks, or subbing in other words? just saw this person use 艹, radical form of 草 (cǎo, "grass") to caption the word she actually spoke, 肏 (cào, "fuck")
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@ManishEarth
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firefox: our js objects are managed by not one but two separate kinds of garbage collectors firefox: the way you tell them apart is that one of them was written by Canadians
@amccreight
Andrew McCreight
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Starting the new year in a productive fashion by correcting the spelling of "grey" to "gray" in a patch review. (The garbage collector uses "gray" for one thing, and the cycle collector uses "grey" for another thing, so it is good to keep them distinct.)
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describing indo european languages as "gender is stored in the vowels"
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Exciting news! I'll be starting a new job at Google in December! I'll be joining the main internationalization team, primarily doing Rust internationalization stuff as a part of ICU4X.
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As many of y'all have already guessed, I'm one of the people laid off in yesterday's Mozilla layoffs. As far as I understand it, @ServoDev is no longer being funded by Mozilla.
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i'd just like to interject for a moment. what you're referring to as Chrome is in fact Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.190 Safari/537.36 or as I've recently taken to calling it, Mozilla plus AppleWebKit plu
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The safest program is the program that doesn't compile -- ancient Rust proverb
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got answers! the W is from sulfuric acid in UPS batteries the red is from propane grills or diesel generation the blue is from pool chemicals (this was a guess i had advanced and had it confirmed) san bruno also has specific regulations on what gets posted outside
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and we now have ocean mammals like whales who live in the ocean but also need to make a mini ocean inside themselves to have babies Animalia literally doesn't know how to make babies without drowning them first
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when I first learned programming as a kid I only knew if/else and variables and thought games were just written in a giant nested if/else blocks, anticipating all possibilities of game state now I know better: games are actually written as giant switch blocks
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i'm tired of just hearing about tech debt. what about tech leverage. tech debentures. tech collateral. tech derivatives. why is there no secondary market of tech debt swaps and options.
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man goes to a software doctor. says he doesn't know how to build his C++ compiler. doctor says "solution is simple. great compiler clang is in town. go use that." man bursts into tears. "but doctor,"
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you: japanese has a pronoun only used by octagenerian men on the Tuesday after a new moon me: English and many others have a pronoun sense only used by doctors, waitstaff, and the carers of toddlers
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pointing out that Marathi inclusive "we" being formal "you" actually makes sense when you remember that we do this in English with small children (and doctor-patient scenarios) all the time
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this is anachronistic because, as we all know, cuneiform was written on tablets
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cuneiform keyboard
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who decided to call it the lambda calculus instead of "the separation of Church and state"
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@fedepohl @DylanMcD8 "don't mix with water"
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@Devon_Wiersma also uh an item with a 5% drop rate of which there are only 4 in existence? either this person doesn't game or this fantasy gameverse has like ... ten players
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every time you reimplement a browser feature in JS you typically kill accessibility, internationalization, or other crucial features most cannot be bothered with
@codepo8
Chris Heilmann [email protected]
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@stommepoes They are using a jQuery plugin called smooth scroll which kills keyboard scrolling on the <body> element. If you remove the listener on the window, it works.
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THE GERMAN WORD FOR NURSE IS KRANKENSCHWESTER WHAT NO
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heyo
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look what I got!
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tfw people using the Web in space is a concern for your spec
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the chinese language when describing other countries: beautiful! lawful! virtuous! heroic! safe! (美,法,德,英,泰) the chinese language when describing china: mid (中)
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a thing that legitimately worries me about the (often reasonable!) reaction people have towards AI stuff is that the copyright maximalist attitude coming out of it is not going to be good for society at all
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"people should have indefeasable property rights in purely factual matters" fuck you absolutely not
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I'm in.
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had an idea
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I've been promoted! I'm now a Staff Research Engineer!
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wtf people stop gushing about how "well done" stripe's layoffs are, it's disgusting
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ooh i now have the distinguished honor of having invented a new PL keyword
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@jgerity help() is calling locale.setlocale() to set the locale to the terminal locale setlocale() recomputes string.uppercase/lowercase and string.letters. it does the last one wrong. I'll file a bug :)
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@FiloSottile @tqbf @mveytsman @matthew_d_green been meaning to do it anyway, might as well use it to incentivize shenanigans i'm in for 300
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@bodil the plural of mutex is "deadlock"
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@alicemazzy fun fact: the australians keep losing MPs when they discover that the MPs are dual citizens and I think there was some drama when NZ was planning on handing out default citizenship to aussies
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so in English we call the digits 01234... "Arabic numerals", right except they're not primarily used by Arabic speakers, who use ٠١٢٣٤... well I just discovered that in Arabic *those* numbers are often called الأرقام الهندية, i.e. "Hindi numerals" except Hindi uses ०१२३४...
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Discord's new game store makes significant use of Rust!!
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oh hell yeah the Rust training course that the Android folks have been working on got open sourced it's very good!
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@eevee - some can also use this muscle to "turn down the volume" of the Outside a little bit. that's the actual purpose of the muscle, it's kinda like an iris for the ear. voluntary control is less precise so this is hard, though - /r/earrumblersassemble
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did...did this person threaten an open source project with nukes when they asked to be paid?
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“The customer has nuclear weapons” is an unusual argument when inquiring whether a bug has been fixed yet, in an open source project.
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today i learned about the eieio powerpc extension stands for "Enforce In-order Execution of I/O" so, you know, a fence like you might find on a farm say, one owned by an old farmer named Macdonald
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"people say the primary function of the compiler is to take well-formed code and produce output. i think its primary function is to take _malformed_ code and produce diagnostics" -- @ekuber WOOOOOOO
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@voltz420 @__femb0t no need to be jealous! everyone starts out an amateur, one day your nouns will be pros too! you can do it, we believe in you!
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This is what i've been working on these past few years and I'm excited it's finally 1.0! Both because it's a new internationalization library for Rust, and because it's got a bunch of cool things about how it's very flexible when it loads data
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We're excited to announce the 1.0 release of our new internationalization library, ICU4X! ICU4X is modular, usable on low-resource devices, and can be used in many environments including Rust, C++, and JavaScript. Read more here:
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@revhowardarson I wonder if he confused it with kristallnacht
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The compiler was forcing me to document these, so I did (referencing )
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the python programming language is lazily typechecked and therefore it embodies the haskell philosophy better than haskell itself
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when you know about Cool Stuff software can do
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Me writing specification: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me implementing specification: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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writing some c++ stuff again after basically only writing rust for ages
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tired: humans only use 25% of their brain wired: computers only use 75% of their bits
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the day i lost my innocence was when i learned that "64 bit" computers are really 48 bit
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@hikikomorphism i've nearly fallen down the same waterfall twice.
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Finally, an honest security question! http://t.co/GsRX2s5zzM
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On a whim I looked something up and... microsoft uses cargo-clippy I CREATED A RUST LINTER NAMED AFTER CLIPPY ON A WHIM AND IT ACCIDENTALLY BECAME POPULAR AND NOW MICROSOFT USES IT welp.
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important materials question
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here at Mozilla we've worked hard to defeat regressions, so much that the concept is no longer defined
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there should be a "Why We Can't Have Nice Things" resource for each programming language that documents the challenges and tradeoffs involved in adding commonly-requested but nuanced features
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modern breaking bad, where a laid off software developer with a chemistry background starts synthesizing adderall to shore up supply during the artificially introduced shortage
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@eevee since this is getting traction, a couple things: - I *think* anyone can teach themself to rumble with a large jaw movement (and divers learn this technique?) - a lot of people seem to be able to rumble both ears or one specific one. i'm a "lefty".
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je m'alloc tu t'allocs il/elle s'alloc nous nous allocons vous vous allocez ils s'allocent
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fun fact: the saying "let him who is without sin cast the first stone" refers to the notion that basically all functions can be represented as a Fourier series
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okay i have contributed to multiple projects that use patch email (git, gdb, i even have commit on gdb), and it absolutely is a barrier. can take multiple hours to properly set up depending on your system
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if you think you've never seen programmers who don't speak much English write code: of course you haven't, most of them don't interact with Anglophone communities. obviously
@rustlang
Rust Language
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The diagnostics working group is looking for your help adding support for internationalization of error messages to the Rust compiler. If you're interested in contributing, check out the blog post for more details!
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turning red is a movie about waking up one morning and finding yourself transformed into a Mozilla employee
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I was today years old when I realized the name "Raft" comes from it being a distributed *log* protocol
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sometimes i see a memory safety bug and think there's no way someone could exploit that and then i see someone skipping the barrier in wind waker by filling up the heap with leaked grappling hooks
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@arrdem @Twitter good luck! also the Arabic in y'all's sign is backwards, unjoined, and most accurately reads as "forbidden daddy" instead of "hello"
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So I'm seeing a lot of misunderstandings around voting systems, especially when it pertains to voting machines. It occurs to me that people may not have a clear idea about how they actually work, and what properties they try to uphold, and how they try to be fraud-resilient.
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it occurs to me that this style of metal band logo is the western equivalent of fancy arabic calligraphy
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@depthsofwiki Which explains the lovely creation of the Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience Band.
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a thing i am suspecting will be true is that use of LLMs is going to be the "don't use Wikipedia" of the next few generations by which I mean they're a tool that *can* be "used right" but older people will tend to focus on the potential for misuse and write them off entirely
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got an interesting backtrace today
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*slaps roof of twink* you can fit so much trauma into this bad boy
@fkasummer
AKHIL 🪡
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someone explain neon genesis evangelion
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let's take a moment to marvel at the phrasing "A deputy fired a 40mm foam baton launcher, and almost simultaneously, a deputy-involved shooting occurred"
@RichardNSpector
Robert Cure of the Smiths
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so the Rad Milk police report is out and holy shit he actually had a sword
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given that old uses of "Saxon" in modern English has mostly survived as "-sex" suffixes (e.g. Essex): if the Saxons had gained a lil more cultural significance than the Angles, the country of England would be called Sexland and English speakers would be called Saxophones
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