It’s common to the point of mootness, but: when describing the planet, Earth is a proper noun and should be capitalized. Otherwise you are referring to soil.

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    11 days ago

    not how colons work

    You had me scanning the image (of text without alt text: bad, OP! BAD!) for a : pretty hard until I settled on The New York Times message

    Breaking News: Susan[…]

    for a while. Had me wondering how else The New York Times is supposed to write that, because it looks correct.

    This is why quoting exists.

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        10 days ago

        After a while, thus achieving another mild infuriation. 💯

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      Sure, but: it was right there all along.

      Separately, Elon might be on Earth, but he’s also sometimes on earth. Although he’s more of an indoors boy.