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  chekhov's acid pit #monsterdon

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  some of you should definitely be in bed

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  any of you in greeley should go look at the giant steam locomotive today: https://www.up.com/about-us/history/steam/schedule

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  alternatively, maybe the purpose of the system is what it doesn't.

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  "people can't and won't read" remains pretty much undefeated as a general model of the world

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  me in 1995: hackers is an unrealistic film because computers don't work like that and thus it is stupid me now: hackers is an unrealistic film because it believes that good things are possible and hacker culture is on the side of downtrodden and the earth and it's great

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  what they don't really explain in advance about minding small children is that it will physically beat the shit out of you

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  what's the thing you have learned the most about just kind of ambiently by being on here?

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  i think it's fair to say that https://theonion.com/i-work-very-hard-and-i-would-like-to-try-cake/ is at least tied with "guy in philosophy class needs to shut the fuck up" as far as onion articles go. the headline here isn't necessarily better, but as a whole artifact...

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  it is once again that time of year where i am simply asking for a comfortable, pollen-proof bubble helmet with super effective powered air filters to wear for 1-6 months

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  they should invent a kind of glasses that aren't smudged.

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  i just want to go outside

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  this isn't a movie that makes a whole lot of sense, and steve martin really cannot sell the new york italian mob guy as such. still, there's a certain kind of charm to the sheer nora ephron-ness of the writing and these are actors one appreciates seeing do their thing. 90 odd minutes i don't regret but feel unlikely to revisit.

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  we built this torment nexus on rock and roll

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  delicious piece of chocolate (you didn't notice the tiny piece of foil stuck to it when you put it in your mouth)

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  RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/116682525420955290 it's kinda remarkable the percentage of the stuff that was taught as best practice when i was starting out programming in earnest that has wound up like this.

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  trying to write php but interesting birds keep landing outside the window

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  which "falsehoods programmers believe about" list does "a person has one e-mail" go on?

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  shitposting as praxis

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  there's this company that, ten years ago, i bought a thing from. specifically, a roof rack for a large van. (we still have the van, and atop it, the roof rack. it's fine. has carried many bicycles, ladders, etc.) a few weeks back i started getting e-mails about roof rack sales and such. if i investigate, am i going to find that this company has been acquired and is on its way to being stripped for parts by some kind of evil ownership group?

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  i wonder if one of the benefits of being someone who has lived long enough to be proven comprehensively wrong both by history & personal experience about at least a narrow majority of your core beliefs is that you can start to loosen your grasp on the idea of being right or knowing fuck all

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  just thinking about how there was this one brand of ballpoint pen that my grandma knew i liked and she'd go out of her way to buy me one when i visited

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  i always manage to forget the intensity of the "i have been bitten by something" -> "what if it's still crawling on me" -> "i bet it's still crawling on me" pipeline here

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  yesterday's weather included 97 degrees in may, so much blowing dirt while we were out decorating graves in the country cemeteries that i'm still shaking grit out of my hair (RIP the topsoil on the one tiny chunk of farm ground the family still owns), racing a tornadic storm for more miles than was probably at all wise, and some brief torrential downpours. maybe it will snow in the next couple days and really round things out.

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  RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/116595268775933311 i don't know if "reverse XY problem" is a sufficiently obvious and pithy name to refer to this by, but it sure could use one because goddamn

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  i think reading @simple_sabotage over and over again in these little bite-sized chunks has done something to my understanding of the world.

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  i saw a taco bell commercial indicating that they have a version of the crunchwrap with more stuff in it, and i thought well, i know now that i am going to eat at least one of those. this might be the most directly gotten by an advertisement i have felt in years.

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  no big deal just back from winning bar trivia

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  some fuckin days man

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  some of you may be interested in expressing a little solidarity here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United