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she's seen all the classics, she knows every line
the matrix, galaxyquest; first doctor was the ninth
she's glad that britney's free, never bought an .aac
her very first pc was too slow for mp3s

why do so few friends have a website?
and who's this elon guy opposed to artist copyright?
when did a bookstore become SHODAN?
whatever happened to
flip phones
flash games
(on your livejournal)

webrings
and mood boards
palm treo's tactile keyboard
she read newshounds
and sluggy
and youtube was 240p
her mutuals
in high school
they tell her that she's uncool
'cause she's still
preoccupied
with twenty
twenty
twenty zero five

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Fun fact: the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer can't use a real-time operating system.

This is because it's Io bound.

I thank you.

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If you see Buddha on the road, kill him.

If you see Zeus, put on a neutronium-armored chastity belt and then fly an extremely well-grounded kite

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Sanderson: you should all come over, we’re gonna watch A Field So White
Tolkien:
Martin:
Jacques:
Jacques: [squeaking] will there be feasting?
Sanderson: we’re gonna have funeral potatoes
Martin: funeral potatoes?
Martin: oh damn that sounds metal
Sanderson: oh good golly gosh no

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Sanderson: I tell you don’t you know
Sanderson: that article was just so gosh darn negative
Sanderson: why, I hid to write three new books to calm myself down don’t cha know

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bro you're not scaring the hoes at all. the hoes are actually developing an unassailable confidence and ruthless clarity of purpose that i'm finding quite alarming

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THIS IS HOW SOCIAL MEDIA WAS SUPPOSED TO BE, A BUNCH OF WEIRD NERDS PRETENDING TO BE WOLVES

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There is only one libertarian position on gender-affirming health care, and that's to let it be a private decision of doctors, patients, and parents if a minor is involved. Worries that some people might regret it are no more a case for criminalization than the fact that lots of people regret taking drugs is a case against drug decriminalization. And if your worry is that we need to protect kids from bad choices, you need *much* weightier evidence of harm than anti-trans people can point to.

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Joining a new social media platform? Pro-tip - choose your use name wisely.

BeckySmith1234: porn bot.

BobGudgeon72: russian propagandist

AziraphalesGiantBalls: actual reasonable human being, probably with a PhD in Norse mythology.

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Media zeitgeist around Microsoft’s integration of OpenAI tech into Bing has gone from scrappy underdog (Bing) goes after big dog (Google) to the usual anti big tech tropes by hyping up every weird conversation with the chatbot.

So analysis over, hyperbolic freak outs in.

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u have to be very quiet when hacking so the coputer doesn't hear you. thats why its called ssh

WTF is everyone doing with balloons. folks, you have rockets, you can just put a satellite into space

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@0xabad1dea My experience matches this. I used to deliberately get in the 20-25th place range for several weeks at a row, then go hard for a week to win it; next week I would end up in a league where my "winning" score was median.

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Also finished _Elder Race_ which is a lot of fun. Seeing a wizard who sees himself as nothing more than "anthropologist Second Class, Jim" is a lot of fun. A quick read that doesn't overstay its welcome. Also 5/5

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