zgryphon.bsky.social
This metal can only be space titanium.
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Man, Thugs-R-Us is going to be backordered for months.
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well, that and if he did that, he'd have to buy a new one, and I expect they're expensive.
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"Our boss is the enemy of freedom and peace! And these people have come from all over the world to stop him!"
"You knew this? Why did you work for him?"
"Because he paid me a freaking fortune, you moron! I'm getting out of here."
"... You got paid?!"
—Dee Jay and Zangief, Street Fighter (1994)
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When I was in high school in the late '80s, I had an English teacher who banned the use of word processors because she was convinced they worked like LLMs do now. "HAL, give me 1500 words on themes in the works of Robert Frost, please." Turns out she was just ahead of her time.
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My Bengali cabdriver has been very much on my mind lately. (shakes fist) "SON OF BEEEEETCH!"
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I probably shouldn't find this as funny as I do, but I snicker every time another Sparrow finds a creative way of not working.
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"So long, screwy! Seeya in St. Louis!"
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does Willie fear the vacuum?
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statue. STATUE.
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Ever wondered what's inside that giant state of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro?
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We should never have had to hear his name again after he flounced off to Florida "never to return." But of course we did. (I was pretty sure we would.)
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Paul LePage still being a thing is prima facie evidence that the gods have abandoned Maine.
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(mental images of an outdoor music festival so deluged with rain that people are getting trenchfoot)
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The quoted example perfectly captures his mastery of one of the core 21st-century American political skills: answering a question, but not the one that was asked.
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I'm starting to think everyone who does actual work is in the wrong line of work.
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For the record, I don't think your ass is that weird.
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big oof
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I didn't mean to stay up QUITE so late, but my current audiobook was a little too engaging.
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well, I hadn't gone to sleep yet...
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My new meds seem to have taken my sex drive behind the barn and shot it. :/ But you kids have fun!
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To paraphrase Carl Sagan, the universe is under no obligation not to disappoint us.
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I'm actually kinda surprised I managed to lose any weight over the last month, even making the effort in good faith, because I'm a stress eater and I TELL YOU WHAT
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very concerned. possibly even EXTREMELY.
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... but 20 years ago, if you had told us we'd want one, we'd have said you were nuts.
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Every day nowadays, I regret that my late grandparents sold their place deep in the woods of Aroostook County when they moved to assisted living instead of handing it off to my dad. It would have been the perfect bolthole...
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I think I've even read of at least one Japanese-American family who, once released, could only find work as laborers on what had been their farm, but I can't cite an authority for that and it may be a false memory fragment.
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Yup. And then gave their houses, farms, stores etc. to white people, who didn't give them back after the war.
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A year ago, or even six months ago, I would have agreed with your assessment, but now I fear you are giving them FAR too much credit.
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I believe you have successfully divined the intent.
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"I'm a-gwinter be et fer sure!"
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masters of invisibility
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It almost makes me want to register D so I can vote in their primaries... but I've had unusually good luck in staying OFF big parties' nag lists so far, and I'm not about to go throwing that away. :/
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Ooh, that sounds like fun. At least you didn't go for the trifecta and get Eastern equine encephalitis along with!
Jokes aside, glad you made it through. That's a rough way to spend some time.
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hey, if the state wants to pay me to say nicer things about it, I'll change my tune in a hot minute. I can't afford integrity
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yeah, it's not ideal. I don't think it's a full-dress meltdown, though; just the old scars lighting up, which happens from time to time. makes me feel weird and not-great, but isn't an emergency.
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"ideas"? Elvis wept.
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This from a guy who throws the Veteran Card at every opportunity, too.
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"yeah, it only works if they still live in the same town, though"