joebar.bsky.social
Old Fart At Play
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No, much later, in college, when I learned from my friends why their cheap 2-for-$1 tacos were known as "dogfood tacos"
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This, from an industry that wants you to place your trust in "Cortana", a fictional suicidal AI... seems entirely on-brand. (If Siri has a back story, I don't want to know)
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Meanwhile: Quick! Turn right or left?
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Ever since I learned that Jack-in-the-Box was owned by Purina, I've lost my desire to eat Purina
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"The vase was unusual in one way, however. In it slumbered God."
Philip K Dick. Valis (p. 19). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
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False premise
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I was going to say, "false dichotomy"
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Even rabbits know corporate bullshit when they see it. Ask them what they really think of Purina
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I tried Mastodon (not smart enough to figure it out) and a few other Twitter alternatives (I even tried X, briefly... hardly counts as a Twitter alternative), and then gave up and decided that the right solution would land in my lap with no effort on my part. And I was right. Yay!
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ugh, not me
I don't like the feel of sunlight on my skin
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Wait, I assumed "Invalid Handle" referred to e.g. a file handle (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle_... ), not a nickname or username. See also for context stackoverflow.com/questions/56...
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I can see why
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Kind of reminds me of the aliens in Lathe of Heaven
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That's a new breed. I see the field has been... expanding. Can't fit many of those in a garage, I imagine.
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10/10 would gnarl again
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"I think we're done"
xkcd.com/206/
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I absolutely cannot stop myself from saying cheerily "you too!" in response to "Thanks for shopping at Safeway!" or "Have a great birthday!" or "Enjoy your new car!"
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Oh no big deal! Peace ☮️
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Please, my fate is bad enough already, let's not make it even worse
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Barbiturates, not lithium.
Lithium salt was a low-sodium salt substitute in the late 1940s. Until it was discovered it killed people. content.time.com/time/subscri...
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Anyone else here severely influenced / damaged / inspired by reading A Wrinkle In Time as a kid?
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4D TIME CUBE
Children will be blessed for
Killing Of Educated Adults
Who Ignore 4 Simultaneous
Days Same Earth Rotation.
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Um that's not how you draw a Time Cube
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In MY day, bug-for-bug compatibility was a Best Practice
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There are LOTS of quick and easy ways to fix pitas. I'd be happy to help. Are you hiring?
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God requires you to do this (in some cultures) (mostly to women) (but you have to try to drown her first)
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Think about the structural rigidity required for the tomatoes at the very bottom to survive road surfaces harsh enough that every bump launches a few of the top tomatoes up, over, and onto the road, where their structural rigidity is no match for American cars driving at rural American speeds.
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And here I was worried I was going to run out of rollback space
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Why does SQL have DROP TABLE but not FLIP TABLE
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ugh
DELETE post FROM posts
WHERE post.morally_redeeming_value IS NULL
AND post.author = "Paul"
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Just use (gensym) where gensym is implemented by
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...
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You should have used three lines in each direction instead of two so that the left side of your brain could play tic-tac-toe while the right side of your brain struggled with what the hell this hashtag could even be for, I mean even on a basic good vs evil level, or is it just a troll and if so, WHY
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Nice? I guess?
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LOL honesty
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Can you create an icon that captures some of this industrialized food energy?
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god damn it I meant wrong SIDE
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If that's a wifi nipple, why is it on the wrong size of the wifi boob?
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You may be interested in Google's upcoming $30/month "we won't try very hard to kill you" service. Or perhaps in their $100/month "we won't actively try to ruin your life" bundle, which also includes an unenforceable promise to not hide all of your YouTube posts from your subscribers.
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He only made two. We made all the rest ourselves.
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My question is, why did god have to make the sun so goddamn HOT? Why can't we just have an LED sun?
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You're talking about Vlad, right? I thought he was still busy with that Ukraine business.