If something is not important, it's not important. I don't care about degrees of irrelevance. I respond like the Borg when someone brings up a point that is not important, "<Your point> is irrelevant."
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Technically, you shouldn't say that something has a degree of uniqueness, such as "very unique" or "somewhat unique." A thing is either unique (one of a kind; without peers) or it isn't.
Still, many of us tend us say such things, because we're really talking about how unusual something is, not how unique it is.
A uniquely Doctor Q post, though hardly unusual for him.
Just like my identical triplet brother and identical triplet sister!
Exactly the same as some other posters, they're totally unique and one of a kind.
Bc I have stuff to do td and a rehearsal tn, sry
Also, it occurs to me - we've got "u" for you, "ur" for your, but what about "you'll?" I sincerely hope that's not "ull."
I’m still confused that “y” is for “why” but shouldn’t be used for “yes”
I saw someone refer to "yt people" ... let's get some guesses here as to what this meant. I got it by the way. <-- see I wrote this out.
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You got it, "white" someone on Threads (a POC by their profile) mentioned "YT people" so I got it after thinking for a second, YouTube made no sense.
Actually, I had to look it up - this is an expression that I had never come across.
For stuff such as this, the internet is a wonderful resource.
Mind you, in the days when I dwelt in the groves of academe, my students kept me abreast of (and kindly tendered explanations, if asked), slang, argot, newly invented terms, or expressions that had become fashionable (remember when "yuppie" was all the rage?)
Today's addition: diffuse vs defuse.
Sometimes, people might really mean diffuse but very often they are trying to remove the thing that could cause an explosion (whether of behaviour or literally).
And fitting something to defuse to my desk light would be a somewhat odd alternative to a switch.
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Sometimes, people might really mean diffuse but very often they are trying to remove the thing that could cause an explosion (whether of behaviour or literally).
And fitting something to defuse to my desk light would be a somewhat odd alternative to a switch.
[ Edited to correct sense. ]
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It should be 2025.07.04 so that there is no confusion. 😁
I thought that we understood this for the turn of the century. I certainly spent a lot of time fixing software for it.
Well, to diffuse a bomb would mean scattering its contents far and wide, so that if it did go off, there would be little damage...
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I am not your dude, bro, or homie. Have been referred to as all three recently.