I thought it was an AAVE corruption of “wretched”. Nurse Ratched was certainly that, but it didn’t derive from the character’s name. Urban Louisiana slang, more like.
Is teaching AAVE a thing anymore or did they decide it was racist? I can’t keep up. I know for a while there was an argument that teaching AAVE at schools was designed to entrench a kind of linguistic class ghetto, but then you also had the liberal “hecking valid” argument, and I’m not sure what the current party line is.
I can help with this one - she’s actually talking about peanuts, on account of being a blue M&M, rather than testicles. Although testicles may colloquially be referred to as nuts, they typically don’t trigger anaphylaxis.
An electric vehicle owner has used her car’s emergency power system to run her 11-year-old son’s lifesaving dialysis machine and another has ridden to the rescue of his neighbours after devastating storms cut power in south-east Queensland....
My kiddo and I are having a fruit and vegetable challenge. Each month we’ll seek out a fruit or vegetable we’ve never tried and taste it. My BFF is trying to walk all the greenways in our county (that is county not country, low stakes! Attainabl!). How about you?
It wouldn’t be fair, they’re billionaires. This is the whole problem, and why people start talking about eating them (which I don’t really understand) or chopping their heads off. If we were civilised, we wouldn’t have billionaires, so let’s not be too coy about this.
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Just because... (lemmy.ca)
Have you ever failed at something? How did you get back up after that?
Perhaps failure in college, class, career, or other things.
fr fr ong (startrek.website)
Large. Because they Just Can't Get Enough. (lemmy.world)
Looks like DRM prevented to watch movies in many theaters yesterday (www.theverge.com)
From the article:...
Dozing (lemmy.zip)
It's a crime! (startrek.website)
I'm not picky... (sh.itjust.works)
They basically run everything (startrek.website)
‘Amazing’: Queensland mum uses electric car to ‘save’ son’s life with dialysis during power outage (www.theguardian.com)
An electric vehicle owner has used her car’s emergency power system to run her 11-year-old son’s lifesaving dialysis machine and another has ridden to the rescue of his neighbours after devastating storms cut power in south-east Queensland....
Lex fridman is Joe Rogan in a suit (midwest.social)
what are your fun, low stakes new year resolutions?
My kiddo and I are having a fruit and vegetable challenge. Each month we’ll seek out a fruit or vegetable we’ve never tried and taste it. My BFF is trying to walk all the greenways in our county (that is county not country, low stakes! Attainabl!). How about you?
Do you feel the trickle yet? (lemmy.zip)
Accessible data (startrek.website)