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Google will invent a new language with no synonyms to improve searching. Also, every word will have one form. Past tense and future tense will have adverbs. Plural and possessive will have adjectives.

I'm going to buy some licorice and get civilized. The liquorice plant is native to southern Europe and parts of Asia. Is that where ancient art and tools are found?

free to use unless you intend to kill people.

for botching that execution ;->

I need to learn the exact algorithms they use to front run stocks, so I can design my pump and dump scheme to trick front runners into running up the stock price. I'll win. They'll lose.

no no, I am not a psychopath. I just work with a herd of alpha males and have to speak fluent alpha to interact with them.

I predict that the insurance companies that now negotiate x% discounts with hospitals and doctors will now demand x% secret kickbacks instead and will quickly make their 85%.

The struck though text would stay readable forever. Readers would understand that the mod down was for the part that was struck out. The poster would understand that first impressions count and that the first mod stands. Of course this means that everyone would have to learn how to "read" the original post by reading the stuck through parts and skipping the bracket parts. The part where everyone would have to learn something is the weak part of the plan.