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@RizomaSchool Same. This app has been a real problem for me lately. Need to remove it. Lent seems to be the most apropos time to do so

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@TheMindScourge Completely agree. The Jony Ives aesthetic tyranny needs to end

It’s had a good run. Time to turn the page.

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@RobertTalisse This seems to be the sequence of events that we’re on.

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@FlappyStonk @HighyieldHarry Banger

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@samanthawillman I’m going to venture a guess here and say that yesterday you weren’t feeling your best

But honestly, this list of cocktails is like a clinic on how to do Mardi Gras right

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@DFEmme42 @Empty_America Honest question: is there such a thing as southwest gothic? I’ve never heard the term but it seems like there should be

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@dieworkwear The Admin did end up lowering several of the more absurd tariffs, so the average rate for the US is ~14%, which is not awful but not great.

I’ve heard people say this is effectively a consumption tax, which isn’t unusual in other countries. Funny it was a republican president.

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@wrathofgnon This is such an awesome, high-agency quote. Love it.

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@bivouac444 @TheMindScourge That’s a really good point that I hadn’t considered before

The sacrifice needed to ‘make it’ in Hollywood was huge, and extremely competitive.

Sure, a little luck probably helped, but I think you’re right - it ended up filtering out all but the very best

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@Empty_America Never before in the history of the English language has such a dichotomous sentence been constructed

I could actually feel the magnetic repulsion between the words Looksmaxxer and Vaughn, NM

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@glassdelusions I’m willing to bet, dollars to donuts, you probably have one of the most interesting and esoteric private libraries in the western United States, full stop

Top 5 for sure

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@glassdelusions Hospital pianist goes immediately from playing Dry January tunes to March Irish jigs, completely bypassing February’s romantic power ballads

This is what they took from us:

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@TheMindScourge I’ve thought quite a bit about your posts on this topic, and I’ve become convinced that you’re right - I’m the age of ubiquitous AI, your best bet is to lean into the messy, blurry parts of being a human.

Efficiency is out, inconsistent black swan behavior is in.

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@nordcat_ @JackChambersGB Esoteric health twitter in shambles

My family is pretty long lived as well and all they seem to do is what would be considered common sense 100 years ago. They walked, had social connections, and didn’t eat like assholes. That was it

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@samanthawillman Was at a greasy spoon diner in Louisiana this week.

Table next to me is stacked with men in their 50s and 60s. Wardrobe is some combination of hunting print and fireproof coveralls

One of them says “so I’ve been startin’ to use this ChatG-B-D and lemme tell you what…”

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@tedmitew 18th century banger

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@expatanon @DaniloMenshikov @TheMindScourge I have found this to be the case - generating new forecasts without updating prior context for better results - but don’t understand enough to know why it works that way

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@glassdelusions lol I knew that. But you had been talking about hospital pianists recently and I thought maybe you were in the physical therapy game now.

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@glassdelusions Glassy, have you changed careers recently?

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@JacobShap Follow up question: is a hotdog a sandwich or a taco?