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Medium humanoid creature, lawful/liberal
Speed: 30 ft.
Languages: Common, Latin, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, French
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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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âBreakingâ? This headline is from eight years ago. And also seven years ago. And six years ago. And âŠ
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I want a president that looks cool in hot-rod convertibles and aviator-style Ray-Bans and doesnât do much else.
Everyone is saying âoh his mind was going, he wasnât in command.â Thatâs what I voted for!
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I havenât heard that name since before the Dark Times. Since before X.
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Iâm 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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Itâs 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 ârequiescat at in paceâ, may he/she rest in peace.
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âMay she ripâ and âLet her ripâ are the same sentence.
And I kind of like the idea that sheâs gone off to some new, ripping adventure. Like ârest in powerâ without the rest. âGo kick ass in the next one, too!â
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âWhy do you call everyone âfascistâ that you donât like?â
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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Thatâs two data points.
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In Chicago, thatâs called a Michael Jordan.
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Though Suzanna Clarkeâs novel is really good, the betrayal in Andy Weirâs 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 heroâs 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 âThe Hunchback of Notre-Dameâ.