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looking for him…please hold

[spammy @spammythinks]

no one ever took reduce and reuse seriously because recycle was such an attention whore of a sibling

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@luuk58 It still happened while I was watching it

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Returning to this real user experience I had in honor of WWDC

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What the fuck

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🤘

[spammy @spammythinks]

Learning about Chekov’s gun is like a perma spoiler for everything

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

People don't seem to understand that "Chekhov's gun" is a metaphor. A gun doesn't literally have to go off in act 3. He's just saying that all plays should have guns in them

[Christopher King @chr1st0pherk1ng]

Everyone trying to find love needs to stop trying to get hotter and start getting more chopped. Like picture the happiest gay couple you know. It’s Thing 1 and Thing 2 isn’t it?

[spammy @spammythinks]

I think Claude wanted to avoid the way you used the comma before a preposition. It changes the prepositional phrase to a nonrestrictive/supplementary addition, i.e., she’s just a rich girl (who by the way is careless due to her privilege). However, it kind of makes more sense without the comma, everything following “with” functioning as a restrictive modifier that specifies further the kind of rich girl she is. But then stylistically you want a pause there to seem reflective or whatever, so Claude found a grammatically less awkward way to form the supplementary adjectival. Basically it avoided a grammatical ambiguity, I don’t think the word choice is that relevant. Your version is definitely more human, but better or worse is a matter of stylistic preference.

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@doulbedoink People either don’t have access to pools or are lying

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@HazelAppleyard They did a black mirror on this already

[Park MacDougald @hpmcd1]

You have to think of the "mass shooting" as a kind of cancellation "safe horny." It's an implausible MacGuffin to get the plot rolling so the filmmakers can explore the social dynamics of a lib couple in which one of the members is 'cancelled'—a real and probably fairly widespread dynamic among members of the New Yorker class over the past decade.

The more damning tell about the whole scenario being fake—and the greater sin against artistic integrity—is that it's the girl who's being 'cancelled,' when everyone with a pulse understands the gender dynamics around this sort of thing. Even within the class of people the movie is intended to depict, it's very rare that a straight man or his male friends would give a shit about this sort of thing beyond seeing it as a sort of curiosity. Especially abt something that could so easily be spun as an issue of "mental health" or "trauma" or whatever.

Obviously this film is trying to depict is the fallout caused by a MAN being vaguely right-wing or antivax or otherwise "problematic" circa peak woke, but it can't be honest about that—because in that case, he would DESERVE it—and so has to turn it into some meta exploration of abstract "social dynamics" that makes no fucking sense because it isn't grounded in any reality that any real people live in...

Sad!

[spammy @spammythinks]

@uncle_deluge Source I made it up but it’s for > 50° latitude when winter nights are really really long and otherwise not a thing.

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@K_A_N_D_E_L Brilliant. 100% Accuracy. They should hire you next season.

[Max @minordissent]

Clav is important in part precisely because he is so unhappy. What he is aspiring to is what our culture implicitly tells us is the ultimate good, his autism making that implicit explicit.

As he ascends to what every young man with a modicum of ambition secretly aspires to be, but never achieves due to laziness and risk aversion, only to find that its attainment means little and does not fill the hole in his soul, he becomes more and more distraught.

And when he eventually realizes that the goal is foolish and searches for something more worthwhile, live in front of millions of acolytes, he will unleash a spiritual and cultural reformation in young men the likes of which has not been seen in centuries.

[Leon @Leon_F_T]

My top 4 trees:

1. Weeping willow
2. Tuscan cypress
3. Lebanese cedar
4. Stone pine

honourable mentions:
Olive tree
Oriental Arborvitae

[Quantіan @quantian1]

Sorry did you not get the memo we aren’t doing left wing slopulism anymore, you will be driven around in the Waymo, you will pay your income taxes, you will behave in a pro social manner, and you will like it.

[spammy @spammythinks]

@signulll astute

[Gay Interrupted @TwinkTheory]

I think true alpha men actually like gay guys because they relate to their insatiable sexual appetite and lust for life

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Huge fan of whatever the grandma is doing

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@asherperlman Bookmark

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I have a perfectly functional pre-2012 kindle but I was secretly happy to get the bricking e-mail bc I have wanted to buy a new one for years but couldn't justify it and now I have an excuse. I am beyond saving

[Barton Gellman @bartongellman]

It's one thing to say older devices don't support some new feature or service or operating system. But to make the deliberate choice to brick a device that's working perfectly well, in order to force your customer to buy a new one, is a hostile act of predatory capitalism.

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@kane @_KarenHao There’s a really based anthropologist named Karen Ho, relieved to Google confirm it’s not the same person