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I remember seeing Interstellar in theaters. There's a line in there where X says, "there's only a 50% chance this will work," and Y says, "those are the best odds I've had in years."
Reader, I teared up in the cinema because those lines resonated with my experience. Again, I cannot relate to people who do not have firsthand experience of how desperate things were for so many for so long.

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New psyop: make cybersec ppl believe that a faction of normies are directly and specifically acting against their cybersec training to protest the level of cybersec obligation imposed on the end-user. At least it will be a useful myth for cybersec ppl to talk about undue obligation.

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Guy who acts like people are dweebs for caring about reckless driving. (Reader, I am mad about him.)

A puppet show to introduce kids to the thought of Umberto Eco.

STOP talking shit about the Pixies!
Joey Santiago is a visionary guitar player
Frank Black is an iconic and evocative performer
Dave Lovering
Kim Deal is a gifted songwriter and insightful musical collaborator

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I've also got a pattern of annoying the shit out of low-openness nurses. Conscientious and extroverted people, to be sure, but they're not used to dealing with a person like me who runs on high-octane speculative thinking.

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I once happened to share a social circle with a stone-cold narcissist, and he seemed mildly annoyed whenever I existed in the same room as him. I try to be friends with literally every person I meet, but this narcissist dude acted genuinely disgusted by me.

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An interesting thing about Cosmo is that my appeal fits tightly into certain demographics:
* people with cluster-B disorders treat me like half-chewed cat food. They have no interest in me at all.
* people who follow me on Mastodon tend to be intensely high-IQ, highly attractive, and extremely sexually gifted

It was under lost constellations when the thunder lizards tyrannized this planet, and under a breathless sky that this planet began to metabolize.

Dispatches on this: I didn't know how difficult Luhman is as a writer. He's got this common disease of German academics to assume that you're already clued into his conversation. But reader -- I am not clued into his conversation.

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Upon reflection, the thing that's most disappointing about "Ant Man Quantumania" is that we got a fight between a time-traveller and a guy who can shrink ad infinitum and that it was so completely boring.

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