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i had completely forgotten that i know anything about colors but apparently i do and also i enjoy nerding out about color

weird that this is even possible
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@diviacaroline @BasilMarte depends on the exact shade, but until recently purple was limited to royalty of various types due to how expensive it was

note also that purple isn't a wavelength of light, but rather the combination of both ends of the spectrum
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i don't recommend this actually it gets very annoying

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turning on gps directions for the sole reason of getting to tell a computer to shut up

my striver brainworms are mostly gone but i kinda miss them

might fuck around and get some more

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i have Striver brainworms and used to spend hours reading about How To Be Productive (while spending no time Actually Being Productive)

it took a couple months for the irony to sink in

i thought i was being high-leverage before i realized that i was, in fact, Lazy twitter.com/imhinesmi/status/1
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Software freedom in the 21st century.

(Maybe a list of problems to be addressed)

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i've made my bed, now i have to lie in it

this isn't a metaphor my bed is extremely comfy

it's a terrible idea, with negligible benefit

but it calls to me

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somebody stop me from making an anki deck with pronunciations for every IPA symbol

performing fecal transplants to give myself better brainworms

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what if our problems are just because we have bad brainworms and we could have good ones instead

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on the care and feeding of brainworms
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everyone seems to have them, maybe they serve a vital ecological purpose

maybe our attempts to get rid of them are like trying to kill all the bacteria in our gut

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wow you can just buy pretty paintings and comfy rugs and nice smelling candles to make your living area look and feel and smell nicer

amazing

occasional reminder to stretch your sore muscles

i feel like i just killed somebody but i don't know who they are

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you ever have a dream about imaginary people with whole elaborate life stories

and then wake up and forget all about them

turns out firefox has a setting where you can change the default text and bg color, i had it set to night mode but it turns out the site uses my default text color but *not* my default bg color

easily fixable for most of the test but not for the timed anagram section

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