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H/him. Tax the rich, like, a lot. I work for a Fortune 500, writing software when they let me
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58 minutes drinking coffee, 2 hours of diarrhea
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Wait, is this yet another captain movie for Hanks?
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Crepes with ble noire!
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Oh no, they just moved it
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Admittedly, I haven’t read it in years. I’ll trust you’ve got a better interpretation
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I always felt Ishmael disappears in these sections of the book. I know he told us to call him Ishmael, but I’ve forgotten about him after 20 pages of whale talk
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Lemme quickly check if we needed anything in these 50,000 lines of code
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I mean, at least the red is bigger than the green
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Good point. My understanding (non-biologist) is that the scientific category “fish” is in fact much more restricted and wouldn’t include a whole bunch of animals we call fish in common parlance. I do think it’s funny how close he got to a modern understanding of the word only to back out at last sec
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My favorite part is when he goes on and on about how whales differ from fish, physiognomy, behavior, etc. but then he’s like, but they swim in the ocean, so they must be fish
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This was one of the first R rated movies I saw. Loved it
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I vaguely recall a factoid about humans (and other animals) having a salinity similar to the oceans at some evolutionary step. Implying our bodies match some can ocean. Honestly, that sounds a little just-so now that I type it out.
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Non-stop visual gags!
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So many libraries
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I’m actually bummed because we’re going to a woosox game in a couple weeks. I knew when I saw the 500 footer we wouldn’t see him there
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At least we should be able to settle that debate
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Graflex is portable
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Neither of them facing negative consequences is such a bummer.
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Okay, I want to read that. www.npr.org/2021/05/28/1...
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Wait, wat
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“Where’s the beef” is a great attack on Trump because it’s probably burned into the part of his brain that still works and once he heard it he would keep repeating it even though it’s a self-own
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I’m saving the multiocular o into the notes app for use later
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“The first $1B business with one human employee” sounds like an Omelas where one person is tortured for everyone else’s benefit. Just an endless stream of paperwork, investor meetings, contract discussions, while the one person is weeping, strapped to their desk
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The publisher has cut their costs by outsourcing to this company, the company has cut their costs by using AI/low-paid staff instead of paying for a proper job, while I’ve spent hours & hours fixing the manuscript, so all the extra labour from cost-costing has fallen on me, the unremunerated author
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Lots of traction in the USA today, we just finished a long weekend. It’s really doesn’t feel like a Tuesday
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I’m in this post and I don’t like it
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Dust my wets
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nanoeo. This is a Linux joke
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*slurps creatine milkshake* fixes you
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Only 5 years because you’re older and it’ll catch up to you faster
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Master story teller Colson Whitehead
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Family
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There’s a bunch of smart people who still get this wrong