strayling.bsky.social
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The use/mention distinction is at least as important. How can we discuss things without being able to state directly what we're talking about?
Related thought: Is there a euphemism for "euphemism"?
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Joe Biden's dyeing his hair now?
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And yet "innuendo" is still acceptable in polite society, despite being an obvious innuendo for ... there must be a word for a word which describes itself so succinctly.
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It's easy: They all hate each other and they're all about as bad as each other. There are no good guys in this millennia-old feud.
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s/Ta/A/
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Or bring a little sunshine into your life with a Cornetto video set to "O Sole Mio"
youtu.be/nNWYhbHUcWM?...
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Trump should have had someone read a bit of Terry Pratchett to him before making Vance his Grand Vizier:
"Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.”
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Did he ever consider making it more attractive to film in the US as a response? No, that would be too difficult. Trump's whole game is: If you can't beat them, drag them down with you.
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What's the exchange rate for chimichangas?
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Math problems are getting a lot more sinister these days.
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The black rim around his eyes is his soul leaking out.
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Starlings know how to respond to threats:
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Denton, home of happiness!
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Trump was hoping for a tiny Hands-Off demo, but instead he got a Tiny-Hands Off demo.
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But how is he going to equip them?
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This is why being British is so cool. Wherever I go, I'm British and they're the foreigners.
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That isn't guyliner; it's his soul leaking out.
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Please don't tar the SpaceX and Tesla employees with the same brush as Musk. What those people are doing is admirable.
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I think you mean "overstate". At least, I hope you do.
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It's easy - his face turns orange when he's lying.
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E.E. Smith was way ahead of the curve on identity theft. It's the entire premise for the Lensman series. Which really should be made into movies.
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Insurance works best when everyone is enrolled. If it's funded by taxes, the incentive becomes to cure people as cheaply as possible or face the wrath of the voters. Pharma companies' natural incentive is to keep people alive, but needing expensive treatment.
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How much must his ass weigh to make that possible?
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Quirk Objection. Raised when a post assumes something not proven to exist.
A: "I think [...]"
B: "obquirk: Assumes you have a brain."
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All part of their justification to invade the North Pole. Next step: Russian backing for the ELF (Elf Liberation Front)
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What's wrong with the front panel?
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Hence the popularity of retro-computing. There aren't any fundamentally different architectures competing with each other in the same space at the moment.
Buying a new graphics card doesn't have the same thrill as switching from a C64 to an Amiga.
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Does it have the addressable cursor add-on?
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And that "any" key we're always being asked to press.
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Given Venus' elemental makeup, could it ever have been habitable?
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There are passionate arguments about pizza toppings amongst pizza lovers. Anchovy or pineapple, it's still a pizza.
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engineer: the glass is twice the size it needs to be
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We didn't - but we still wrote code for them, so we'd be ready if we ever got a chance to use one.
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Wow, thanks, Mr. Broe - it smells like a new car in here!