Publicists, editors, writers: When querying an author for a book blurb, DO NOT offer a suggested blurb for the queried author to "use or adapt." One, authors actually do know how to write. Two, you are saying, unintentionally or otherwise, "I don't care about your opinion, I just need your name."

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Seems relevant to that flood of journalists who in the last few weeks announced publicly that it was okay to return to X, that the platform had gotten better, and the worst aspects of it had been minimized. This is what you have endorsed.

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you can press Next without selecting either yes or no - but it doesn't say that on the page; usually 'senstive' questions have an explicit 'skip' option

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there's a reason most of my extended family lives in LA now, not BC

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canada seems only likely to even consider trying for the ones the government considers white, I've seen what the canadian electorate thinks of people who look like my grandparents and it's roughly on par with Idaho

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