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  • Til before he was a science fiction author, Gene Wolf helped invent the Pringle potato chip

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  • "Book of the New Sun" was a fucking fever dream and is widely considered one of the best fantasy books. My friends couldn't stop talking about it but I just thought it was strange.

    "Latro in the Mist" was more accessible to me.

  • Get. Off. The. Plane.

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  • Well I don't fly because I think it's fun

  • Get. Off. The. Plane.

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  • I try to chill in my window seat and wait for one of the big gaps to open up, then I flip into the aisle, Scorpion my carry-on ("Get over here!"), and rush past the flight attendants to get stuck behind everybody else still meandering up the jetway.

  • Do not Interrupt Developers, Study Says

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  • But this will be different, everybody will pay a sort of "rent" to use this office, but it'll be worth it because it's so big and has bedrooms and bathrooms, and you can put your office wherever you want, and even own it if you want to

  • New executive order puts all grants under political control

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  • It was very in the open, but Trump said he didn't know anything about it, so the sycophants believed him.

  • Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display

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  • Are you kidding? Always dodge twice!

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  • Flash is such a hilariously overpowered hero, it's awesome

  • The Professors Who Supported the Student Deportation Frenzy

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  • Oh man, you hit upon why it makes me twitch. Because this has always been thoroughly hypothetical for me I somehow never considered the other half of the social equation!

    Yes, that's exactly it: if it's used as a way to unduly elevate themselves over others. That was the part that I was stuck on but couldn't articulate. Now I know what I would do if I ever ran into this situation (just call me mister, lol), so thanks for that.

  • The Professors Who Supported the Student Deportation Frenzy

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  • What's your view on calling people Doctor in general?

    On the one hand it's a title that you earn through a great deal of prolonged effort. On the other hand it's just a title, a label, and I don't feel like I should be under any obligation to refer to somebody by anything other than their name. But then what do you do if they introduce themselves as Doctor Smith or whatever?

    In practice I just use the honorific because it's the socially acceptable thing to do, but I'm grumpy about it. I say this because I've at least heard of people who insist on being called doctor and it feels so douchy I don't want to give them the satisfaction.

  • Breaking out the ps3

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  • I hate how right you are. I guess what I'm really looking for is a way to recreate that magic, but an accessible shot of nostalgia every now and then would do just fine. I guess I'll look into clone hero and see.

  • Breaking out the ps3

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  • Yeah, why the fuck don't we have a modern interpretation or a spiritual successor? (Please, no remastering.) I assume the answer is money, but I'm still disappointed.

  • Military Says It Will ‘Continuously’ Monitor Bathrooms to Comply With Anti-Trans Order

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  • Never had multi-user stalls or pissers, but I seem to recall a big round communal trough for high bathroom throughput. Everybody just kind of pissing in each other's general direction.

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  • Is gay online dating full of reciprocal compliments?

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    AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?

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  • Bring back web rings!

  • Texan Moved Fam to Russia to Flee Woke—Now He’s Headed to Ukraine Front Line

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  • Ew

  • Texan Moved Fam to Russia to Flee Woke—Now He’s Headed to Ukraine Front Line

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  • Civil wars are when a country is at war with itself. This is one sovereign nation invading another. You know they have different presidents, right?

  • Trump suggests taking over New York City and Washington

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  • "Skip to" isn't quite fair, because the million things that can be done need to be done by tens of millions of people, and not everybody has those opportunities. So for some, "Guess I'll get a gun while I still can," is just the next thing they can do after voting and protesting and calling and writing and donating and speaking, because we've been taught for a long time that that's how these things go and the best defense is being armed.

    And even beyond that, saying "You Americans" as though we're all a like-minded group is as silly as assuming that everyone is from the US.

  • Let me pet the fucking dog

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  • I've been playing through Cyberpunk 2077 again and they're all bad choices.

    The final level of Last of Us had me hesitating, too, because the "right" choice felt wrong. Not that you really get to decide, but it was a cool gameplay moment for me.

  • We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent

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  • Yeah, man, I get it. Language is complex. I'm not advocating for the reinvention of English, it was just a conversational observation about a silly quirk.