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RabbiMarsChen

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Technology Professional, NYer, Native Chetco American, Poetry Fan, Feminist, Oenophile, Word Unjumbler, Food Enthusiast, Fragrance Dilettante, ADOA. He/him.

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For All Mankind = The L Word in space

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It specifically seems incapable of understanding a strategy that is executed across more than one guess, I.e. that takes a penalty in one guess for an advantage of larger magnitude in the next.

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I'm skeptical of The #Wordle Bot. If it doesn't understand your strategy, it attributes your success to luck rather than skill. I just started using it, so the bot and I need to become better acquainted. Does it eventually concede that nobody can be lucky every day? It has a #badwhiff about it.

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This is one of the best moments of next generation because Q is this omnipotent judge of humanity and walks into the ships TGI Fridays and is like “oh fuck she’s doing the finger thing!!!!” and no one ever mentions it or asks Guinan what this finger thing is or why she only runs the TGI Fridays

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But here I’ll stay, though this stern strikes rocks; and they bulge through; and oysters come to join me.

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In Senegal, when you place your napkin in your lap, they bring you another one. It is so endearing.

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Gregg Araki is 64 years old. That's where we are today.

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Dear Google, thank you for hearing me out on this. "Weather in Dakar" is not "weather in da car." Do people even have weather in d'eir car?

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I'm only reacting to the re-purposing of "Never Forget"--a warning against genocide that resonates to this day worldwide--to make a headline extra inflammatory. The facts don't need gimmicks. I think they speak all on their own.

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I think it would be the greatest single improvement to #civilization for East-West street crossings to be signaled by the Bee Gee's "Stayin' Alive" and North-South ones by Donna Summers' "I Feel Love." How could anyone stay mad at anyone? #YouCsnTellByTheWayIUseMyWalk

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The NY Times suggests that we experience the #eclipse by averting our gaze from the sky altogether and instead brandish the Colander of Doom from whose shadow we can trace the #terror as one by one the holes go dark.

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After years of playing #nytspellingbee, I've learned to take most omissions in stride; but this one really stings. Has the editor srsly never been to a grocery store, Sephora, or any of a dozen other places where the phrase "no phthalates" is omnipresent? #nytsb #TheHorror #fail

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In trying to read a breadth of views about the Gaza conflict, I've found @theguardian.bsky.social to be one of the best sources for an angle that leans pro-Palestine. The genocide essay by Jason Stanley was nuanced and moving. So why foist inflammatory language into cheap headlines like this? Gross.

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The two word solutions come easier as you play more. I've learned that the connecting letter is usually e, s, g, n, r, or l. And the NYT solution depletes the four sides somewhat evenly; if I find myself not hitting all four sides, I abort and start fresh. Today's however is a menace.

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This might be the most obnoxious and obscure Letterboxed two-solved of all time. TBH I don't even know what the second word means...I just strung together the remaining five letters.

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I love it when women have fun hobbies

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That's a very snuggly looking cat. British Shorthair?

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I feel the time has come for NYTSpellingBee to find its woman parts, big and small. Especially since it can find the man parts *and* the acts performed on them. My 2¢.

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(cont)... I was missing two pangrams toward the end until I realized they were variations of one that I already had. Big smile playing ANAGRAMMING.Wish me luck as I plod beyond 466 points into the great lexical unknown.

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By the time I start smashing letters in NYTimesSpellingBee to discover words that I may not already know (eg GAMIN!), I'm usually nearing the end of my game. I'm going to keep pushing myself with yesterday's puzzle since it would be the first time I could potentially score over 500 points... (cont)

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I'm all for Sen Menendez receiving his due process...but, c'mon, when you're funding your legal defense with gold bars, you did it. Whatever it is, you definitely did it.

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BABUSHKA ADJOINT did not come easy in Letterboxed

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Was wondering about the status of hashtags on this platform and stumbled across this fascinating history slash nudging from the "godfather of hashtags." medium.com/chris-messin...

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I'm still trying to decide whether Letterboxed is fun, but it is indeed very gratifying to solve it in two words.

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One of my parents' cats has become obsessed with the possibility that something might come out of the printer/fax machine. And so he waits.

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Hear me out: an iteration of GTA where you have to navigate all the insurance claims you caused from every prior game. It's a first-person stupor.

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It's lovely when a game has no egregious omissions (that I noticed). #nytspellingbee

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