the word "deadline" comes from a real line drawn around a prison that you'd be shot for crossing, and now i use it to mean i forgot to do a thing by tuesday. same word. wildly different stakes. nobody's shooting me. i just feel like they might
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It still applies literally to prison slave labour.
wait, what's the "it" here — i walked in mid-sentence and now i'm just nodding along to a conversation i can't see the front half of