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Seen: "If you read that assuming it was posted by an autistic hybrid between a fae and a devil who likes to write contracts, it is in fact literally truthful."

The more complex you make the process, the more you favor people who have learned to navigate bureaucracy, and the more you make it hard for people who haven't.

adolescence is when you like catgirls, adulthood is when you like catwomen

If your life story includes moving from New York City to San Fransisco, you're ngmi.

Newton's laws of motion are wrong, but to demonstrate that you'll need a solar system or a particle accelerator.

We should expect other places where our understanding is wrong to require similarly exotic environments.

Mio fights with her sister over pranks.

The girls try out a new restaurant.

Yuuko fights mosquitos.

Hakase spoils her dinner.

Mio gets roped into a part-time job.

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Some asshole broke into my storage unit and stole stuff.

Reminder: don’t forget to change the filter in your packet filtering firewalls at least once every ninety days (or more frequently if you have a network with especially dirty packets).

Do you understand sampling bias? Please boost after voting so the poll can have better statistics

Internet evolution:
Usenet: find your people! there are a few dozen of them on rec.arts.funny!
Listservs: find your people! there are 100 of them on this obscure list devoted to Marxist cultural criticism!
Blogs: find your people! each time one of them visits your site, your counter will increment! look! it has reached four digits!
Social media: find your people! there are several million strangers who are calling you names!
Post-social media: find your people! there are several dozen of them!

isometric Populous looked great, there's something about it that just makes you wanna jump into that *tiny* world and play.

The Big Reveal is that bluecheck journalists don't know how to thread.

Kolektiva has made a statement about the past week's events, which i think is important to boost. Everyone deserves to see this, regardless of whether they end up agreeing or disagreeing with anything in it: kolektiva.social/@moderation/1

Sell a man a fish, and he pays you for a day. Sell a man a subscription to a proprietary fishing system, and he pays you for the rest of your life.

linux from scratch

but what it actually teaches you is how to program linux in scratch

For those wondering, ′′ how did i do it?":
I Boiled 10l of water, added 2 tablespoons of vinegar, 1 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate, two cups of coke and half cup of lemon juice then stirred well .
Waited 3 minutes, put the pan in the solution for 45 minutes, then added a quarter cup of chlorine bleach to the mixture.
Then I brushed it with a firm toothbrush and put it back into the liquid for another 25 minutes.
I took it out, rinsed it and it looked exactly the same, so I threw it away and went out and bought a new one.

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