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Medium humanoid creature, lawful/liberal Speed: 30 ft. Languages: Common, Latin, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, French đŸš«đŸ‘‘ He makes music and digital art sometimes. He used to be @querulus.
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 lullaby, but rather vice-versa: that it is something a part of you has always known, a part of you that came from beyond death, a part of you that longs to return, you realize that Donald Rumsfeld was wrong. By far the most dangerous of all is the unknown-knowns.
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“Breaking”? This headline is from eight years ago. And also seven years ago. And six years ago. And 

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I want a president that looks cool in hot-rod convertibles and aviator-style Ray-Bans and doesn’t do much else. Everyone is saying “oh his mind was going, he wasn’t in command.” That’s what I voted for!
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I haven’t heard that name since before the Dark Times. Since before X.
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I’m so glad we can share ideas. On the old site, a comment like mine would have been treated like a challenge.
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It’s older than that. Romans most often put STTL (sit tibi terra levis, may the earth rest lightly on you), but they also (especially early Christians) used R.I.P., which is “requiescat at in pace”, may he/she rest in peace.
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“May she rip” and “Let her rip” are the same sentence. And I kind of like the idea that she’s gone off to some new, ripping adventure. Like “rest in power” without the rest. “Go kick ass in the next one, too!”
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“Why do you call everyone ‘fascist’ that you don’t like?” This guy named his company after the guys that would carry a literal fasces, a weapon to beat plebeians who got too close to the emperor.
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Why, this is VIOLENCE!
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That’s two data points.
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In Chicago, that’s called a Michael Jordan.
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Though Suzanna Clarke’s novel is really good, the betrayal in Andy Weir’s book is by far the more shocking, and it still haunts me years after reading it.
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But the emotional climax of the books comes when the hero’s memory finally knits itself together enough to reveal that someone the hero thought they understood was really someone else entirely: someone who betrayed the hero!
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The hero must methodically probe his world to discover how it works, and finds that he and the Other are on an important mission to discover the Great and Secret Knowledge that is needed to save a distant and mysterious humanity.
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Also: please send me condolences: I just finished “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”.