Lucent

One tweet a day…for 14 years?

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Never considered that some don't buy in the old-money neighborhood because they'd rather roll on a fresh PvP server with no legacy guilds.

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Heightism is so baked into culture that even Mario considers going from tall to short as significant an injury as going from short to dead.

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AI companion chat bots are a harm reduction technology that offers no more drawbacks than a real romance scam but with a fixed token budget.

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Remember when companies tried to imply we were racist for expecting the same quality of service from the support jobs they sent overseas?

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Dogs are a good buy for ex-smokers because the smoke breaks they organized their life around can become walks.

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Instead of plowing through pedestrians on the sidewalk, the Segway's legacy will be helping solicitors plow through entire neighborhoods.

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How is everyone else coping with being able to finish their backlog of tasks and projects that were meant to fill out a lifetime in weeks?

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Overpreparation has turned into a cargo cult ritual, collecting and showing off talismans to scare off whatever minor god has jurisdiction.

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Painful watching narcissism excused as "hurt people hurt people" when low empathy with the charm to exploit it is ability score synergy.

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Us: China controls social media? Evil totalitarianism!
Also us: Social media is dismantling society, but I guess there's nothing we can do.

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"AI can never replace the human element" is the new "it's about finding that balance," a meaningless platitude to team-build on calls.

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"Fixing it admits you already knew it was broken, making you culpable" needs a name like Culprit's Dilemma so nominal realism can defeat it.

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Bad behavior lives between what you won't do and won't call out. Phones expand that gap by requiring rebukes survive a viral bad-faith edit.

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Playing a game with every grocer where I buy out an unwanted item on clearance, they overread demand, I wait, it goes back on clearance.

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When it comes to home-cooked meals, finding a hair is a non-issue. Just sharing a pillow will have you swallowing a small wig every year.

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Are the abrasive underwear seams sewn facing inward to look good in ads and we're supposed to exercise free will and wear them inside out?

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Broke: Wife stays home because childcare is more than her salary.
Woke: Wife stays home to mow because lawn care costs more than her salary.

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The History Channel could pivot to aliens and keep its audience because aliens scale up history's core question of how civilizations unfold.

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Culling photos takes so long for the same reason you keep checking an empty pantry. Each pass lowers the bar until something clears it.

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If women follow teen girls to stay young, and men treat women's disapproval as the edge of permissible opinion, who really controls culture?