It’s only a problem if you have a lazy assessor who just takes the similarly score and runs with it.

When I was marking essays 10 years ago, I saw Turnitin as a manual review tool. You feed an essay into the program, and it would give a percentage for similarly. It would panic students to see that the program was finding some similarly, but unless it was very high, the score was mostly useless.

The useful part is where it highlights the passages that it thought were problematic. Almost all the time those highlighted passages were properly attributed sources, so not plagiarism. If you had an excessive amount of cited material, I might give a lower mark because of less original thought, but it’s still not plagiarism.

That chain is also… definitely something.

I fully agree. If you want to be able to cast subtle spells, invest in the abilities required to do so. Otherwise I say someone starting to cast a spell without warning will be treated the same as someone pulling out a knife without warning: sure they might be planning something on doing something harmless like peel an apple, but without context, you’re going to assume the worst and react accordingly.

Nintendo’s lawyers are probably preparing a patent application right now claiming they invented the farming sim game.

But does it taste good?

But a subscription? That’s more akin to saying we’ll send someone to de-tune the car you’ve had tuned unless you pay us protection money monthly.

Maybe if they hadn’t binged on that carpet it would have been more attainable.

You really haven’t given us much to go on here.

Were you in a relationship? For how long?

Also, what sort of age group are we talking here? Your options and perspectives are likely to be different if you are in your teens vs 20s vs 30s, etc.

So a whoosh from me it was.

I’m guessing that English is not your first language? To talk shit about someone means to say negative things about them, it doesn’t necessarily mean using any swear words.

That or you were joking, and I just whooshed myself.

I’ve heard that it’s so addictive that people who stop using it will die from withdrawal in a matter of days.

But the next pope may be far more conservative than Francis, who by Catholic Church standards was unusually liberal.

This made slightly less sense before I remembered that manga is supposed to be read right to left.

Or speaking in cant?

It’s just a tiny little fella!

Nope, I have no doubt they happen. I’m disputing that a old comedy film is useful evidence of them.

Toms Hanks also made a movie 40 years ago about role playing games making you mentally unwell and suicidal. So I’m not sure we should necessarily be citing 1980s Tom Hanks movies for their social commentary value.