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satvikpendemyesterday at 10:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's ebonics, a slang or dialect version of using "are."


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sheeptyesterday at 10:57 PM

Linguistically it's particularly interesting since it marks the habitual aspect, and standard English has no grammatical equivalent.[0]

[0]: https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/invariant-be#who-says-this

frollogastonyesterday at 10:35 PM

And it's more like "are being" here (present imperfect)