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she opened the unmarked envelope, spilled out the ring, and with a confidence born of subconscious desire, she slipped it over a finger.
not even a moment had passed before the sussurating whispers started, and then built to a strong, sibilant voice: "...tim hoooortons. doooonuts..."
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even in the middle of the chaos of a protest i know for a goddam fact i'd see that hoodie, pause, and say "tecmo bowl. fuckin' sweet."
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100% correct, no notes
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a more archly privileged and tedious take couldn't have been offered outside of a substack blog written by a homunculus grown from bari weiss' and ross douthat's dna
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looks like they get to ride the bikes they love and own this time. awesome!
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near as i can tell, it's still a popular epithet but has lost its punch. it's now a word peepaw uses when he can't find miracle whip on the kroger shelves ("damn woke governor probably banned it")
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i work on ai (sorry) and it seems so many proponents want to use it to either: a) fake breaking through their dunning-kruger psedointellectual existences or b) want to eliminate the sort of good grind that keads the grinder to deeper understandings or technique. honestly a & b are a shared motive
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given how they react to any performance of masculinity that isn't toxic -- usually by declaring it "un-masculine" -- i'm not sure they have an idea about beilbg male that isn't contrived and toxic
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he carefully removed the boots from his patron's feet and with the committed technique of the consummately professional syncophant, slavishly licked each one until not a trace of his own credibility remained
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a griso, just to make sure everone knows yer a badass!
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hey those ketchup chips were hard to procure
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i'm reading it! i'm liking it a lot! do not send ur bugge peers to infest my pantry! mercy befits the dominance of your phylum!
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this is precisely why ai is such a cultural toxin
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humanity's not gonna make it, yeah?
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the tism. my concern was always the individual and the nuances of their behavior as such, not the presentation or performance. they've always been and always will be just people to me, good and bad.
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but i've paid my taxes for 33 years! and here's a poem:
the worm said to him
the autists are the problem
as he shit his pants
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the manga "witch hat atelier" is a much better and more inclusive hp, with some of the best graphic artwork i've seen
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for Git commands, that is
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lotsa got users had to correct their muscle memory to type "main" instrad of "master" and yet very very very few complained. words change in usage and application; adults deal
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i have never gotten more rage from an audience than when i once suggested in a writing group that the notion of "romance" compasses so much more than "two people get horny for each other"
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rich parents have no incentive or perspective on preparing their kids for life -- growth is a story of struggle, not convenience.
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the rubes eat this up. the taste of "owning the libs" is the taste of arse, and they've come to crave it
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or more accurately, reciting the same bigoted jokes peepaw used to tell to thunderous acclaim in the parking lot after a jv football game
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my hs cohort was and still is very very mad that they can't get laffs in their dive bars (or on zuccbook) any more by quoting racist/sexist/homophobic lines from their favorite 80s pop schlock
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what if we (america) were the villains and the timecops came to shut us down
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i am also gen x, i am white af, and i cosign your observation.
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worse: by "the economy" they must ineluctably mean "their portfolios" which was merely the first thing trump pissed on
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first i thought i we were in a philip k dick timeline, then a margaret atwood one, then an octavia butler one, but no, it was kurt vonnegut all along!
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"lefitsts" had a choice between someone who, despite the tremendously stupid late-campaign platform pivots, could actually be worked with under an intact government. many chose immolation instead because apparently tantrums == moral character? we mighta saved a few gazans under kamala
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especially a black woman
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great example of the media being censored (or self-censoring at an authortiarian behest) although i don't think that was the intent in posting this equivocating gibberish.
stop being cowards. get in the pain boat with the rest of us
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are we...are WE the pee tape?
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well yeah, his crush (vanky-chan) had heart eyes for the goofy bishounen former pm
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tech's performative, dunning-kruger-brained leadership is one aspect of our culture that seems ripe for exploitation by comedians, but no credible artist wants to get close to it
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the trick is to rotate your screen 180 degrees, cross your arms, and confidently smirk
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it's actually a pretty friendly bike -- just heavy by trumpet standards. now the aprilia rxv550 two-stroke? that bike nearly made me consider getting a brown riding suit
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and the one that plays the keyboard! sure it's fake but man that cat can sure rock the keys
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i hope tim cook gets his $1M fealty donation back