Compilation of people holding things that shouldn't be held, please add more if you have any
@is-the-snake-video-cute looks like a coral snake (blunt nose) but double checking- is it ?
That's indeed a coral snake, good ID!!
This thread is full of the luckiest people on the planet, I think. Also goes to show just how calm even venomous snakes are - coral snakes rarely bite unless you're actively harassing them - and how important it is to make sure your ID as non-venomous is 1000% certain before picking up any wild snake.
Had to include this tags cause i also catched people not getting the issues and this person explained it best
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#okay not to ruin the joke by explaining it #but people in the notes are legitimately confused
#ok some of this is bad but XYZ is just goofy little jokes!!?
#yeah that's what's happening here #she's dramatizing how a steady algorithmic feed of misogyny radicalizes people
#it's silly jokes it's Not That Deep #and then it's jolly good-natured lifestyle content
#and then it's deeply ugly reactionary conspiracy theories
#but it's all so light and quick and it just flows effortlessly over you #once you're in the pipeline
#and it all sounds equally friendly and approachable in tone
#and maybe the first time you hear something it sounds a little wrong #or not quite what you believe #but the next thing is fine and the next
#until suddenly this is just where you live #this is what the world sounds like hour after hour
#this is what the normalization of reactionary fascist ideas sounds like in action.
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so is the thing where apparently people have trouble telling "affect" and "effect" apart related to how english speakers love to slur all their vowels into an undifferentiated mess or is that a coincidence
[image ids: The first image is the flex tape meme, with the guy labeled "english" and the leaking water labeled "a e i o u" - the flex tape slapped over the leak in the second half of the meme is labeled with the IPA symbol for schwa.
The second image is the expanding brain meme, in five stages. the first stage is a vowel diagram, showing the point of articulation in the mouth for five (english) vowels: a e i o u. the diagram gets progressively more complicated moving down as IPA notation for various vowels are added...until the final diagram, where there is only one vowel, and it is schwa. end id.]
WEAK FORMS: Why 'natives' and 'non-natives' sound different: Dr Geoff Lindsey
[Video summary: Dr. Lindsey uses video clips of native English speakers to demonstrate that native speakers usually pronounce words with elided vowels in unstressed positions. The schwa vowel sound is the most common sound in English.]
