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Aspiring to become the Wizard Sundiver, to see many total eclipses and fresh snows, to be employed in artificing, and to finally find that one reed to rule them all Did I just finish my heliophysics PhD with my sanity intact? Well, I got the degree, but...
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There's so many people drawing from the well of evil that there must have been a brownout in the supply. I guess at this point it's all that's keeping him standing?

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"we said jus solis and we meant jus solis, for everyone" Damn straight

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ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all

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At what relationship mass does the speed of love correction become significant

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A complaint to no-one here on AzureFirmament: It's so much worse when something doesn't work because it was designed wrong/poorly. Something broken? I can repair Not implemented correctly? I can modify Not designed correctly? Sadly I'm not allowed to unilaterally reroute HVAC in an apartment

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Plan Will Work As Intended, warns NY Post

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My attention wandered briefly while scrolling, so seeing neither text nor OP handle my brain took in the core image and immediately spat out "Sharknado: Blizzard of Teeth" Early to bed tonight, methinks

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I make things that count much smaller things. Sometimes I have to suck real hard and then create those smaller things myself. Much easier to do up in space, where the Sun creates a lot of them for me. Why? Half for "ooh, science" and half for "strap in, here it comes!"

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One of the most painful things about going home is that my family enables audible notifications. For the love of all remaining sanity, please at least switch to vibrate

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I'm always a little worried that I'm less "fixing" and more "implementing my own preferences" when I do things like cable manage my mom's setup, but she seems delighted so in the end I'm happy to do it

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read this and had a full epiphany that ai has simply trained all these idiots to give it easy prompts.

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"There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties." The hitchhiker's guide then says orbiting is opposite, & we're improving our throwing...

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Definitely not exactly me... surely not...

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"If they know, they're not saying." Knowing and obfuscating vs not knowing and stalling would each be very bad signs

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