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Mark NSFW content.
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Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
No international politcs
Be excellent to each other.
Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major celebrity, figure or any politician

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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Affect
transitive verb

: to put on a false appearance of (something) : to pretend to feel, have, or do (something) : feign

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[+] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works -12 points 1 week ago (8 children)

You affect something and then you have had an effect on it.

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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

As a rule of thumb, that is correct. But there are exceptions to that rule and the example given is one of them.

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[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

I'd argue this isn't an exception as this doesn't fit the rule at all, as neither word is being used here, a word that's spelled the same as one of them is causing confusion as it's a fairly uncommon word