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Sweet Jesus stop trying to make this a thing. 85-90% of these are found alive, most within a day or two of going missing. They’re mostly elderly people with dementia. 600,000 go missing in the U.S. every year but there’s no grifter pushing orientalist nonsense like this there.

日常会話では、カジュアルな場面で98.6%が「（寝）ている」でなく「（寝）てる」、職場の会議でも92%が「てる」ということがコーパス調査でわかりました。書き言葉では「ている」が圧倒的多数。 「複数のコーパスを利用した言葉のバリエーションの研究」国立国語研究所論集 28, 79-94. open access

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the fact that jp fujos are using it now tho?? 😭😭🙏🏻

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in class this week I summarized Saïd's "Orientalism" by comparing it to AI: "you know how AI content is getting worse because it's now being trained based on its own output? that's how the West creates stereotypes about the Orient and teaches itself about its own superiority."

Good show