#shorten

[ffatt]

What are they feeding him to be this tall

[sayitaliano]

Quick Italian writing/texting thing #1: "X"

When you take notes and need to write fast (but often while texting too), instead of writing "per" (=for, to, by), you may spot Italians write an "x". This because "x" is the math symbol used in multiplications, and we read it as "per" (e.g. 5 x 6 => "cinque per sei"). So we shorten the word "per" as "x" : e.g. ti chiamo dopo x spiegarti = I'll call you later to explain you (actually we can shorten this sentence even more, but I want to focus on the "x" part alone for now); e.g. (fare) x giovedì = (do *this*) for/by thursday (imagine it written on a note over some papers or sth, maybe before your homeworks' list on your school agenda). It's very slang/informal so use it only with your peers or friends, or indeed when you write notes for yourself.

[legogradstudent]

Lopping off parts of his draft article to meet a journal's word limit, the grad student feels his inner spirit slowly and angrily die.

[aoshimaonwards]

Inktober Day 17: #drawthesquad #inktober2017 #afterhoursanimationschool

[popthirdworld]

woah. The Australian Government is gonna pay 1,905 Manus detainees $100M+ (so about $52K+ each) to settle a "they illegally treated us like crap" court case. I don't wanna take away from the extraordinary victory this is for the detainees and lawyers who worked hard for this. But for the Aussie government? This is a price they'll happily pay to keep doing what they're doing. The plan: spend billions on detention torture and add a $100m or two to the tab whenever torture victims manage to scrounge together a lawsuit in response. This is barely a speedbump for these Stalin policies.

[twitterexile]

Bill Shorten - his plan for a stockpile of Crude Oil voted down in 2019.

[moneymasteryhubonline]

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says AI will shorten our workweek

Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan believes that AI assistants will finally allow us to shorten our workweek. Speaking on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Monday, Yuan discussed his videoconferencing product’s embrace of AI, which includes a “digital twin” feature where an AI avatar can speak for you. Yuan began using his AI avatar in an earnings call with investors this year,…