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Oooh these are beauts!!

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You can work an infinite amount of overtime if you just keep playing this song on a loop youtu.be/wlmUnWLaeog

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Exactly. They aren't going to be able to set up hundreds of miles of conveyor belt repair robots.

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Found another one. With this description I bet it's like the treble version of the brown note. The exact pattern and frequency to turn your ears purple and make you bumper-check an ice cream truck in afternoon traffic

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They aren't "planning" this at all - they put out an open call for high level proposals. It's an important distinction because I very much want to ride on one

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This is "raising them right" 👌

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Who's that on the side of the trailer? She looks awfully familiar

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They could make it a tag team event - Trump and two of his sons vs. Biden, Harris and... I dunno, I guess they'd have to finally pick a third Democrat. The moderator can be that "I'm going to allow this" judge from Futurama. Ratings will be off the charts.

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Helldivers has like half a dozen new game-breaking glitches tonight

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My partner (Asian lady) wants purple. Please update us if you figure out a method that doesn't come out looking like IRL jpeg artifacts

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Robin Marwick's avatar Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social
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This is the best one yet imo. 🪨🍴

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I mean like. chatgpt basically talks in linkedin dialect. the most banal restatement of a hipfiring echo blob of words that is approximately two paragraphs too long ……………. how many ceos are basically already LLMs

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Joe Blackwood's avatar Joe Blackwood @joeblackwood.bsky.social
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If he or his family are no longer in possession of said $700 worth of beauty products, then this was almost certainly a money laundering thing

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This absolute stud saw some upper upper manager sent out a comm about "bringing your whole authentic self to work" and cashed that check

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Lmao that was the weakest gaslight defense I've ever seen

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Kicking off a surprise geolocation adventure so I can find this guy and buy out any remaining stock. I bet he has the most beautiful and pristine Zenith VHS cameras

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I have never done a crime more serious than a traffic violation and yet this behavior is coded into my brainstem lol

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Joe Blackwood's avatar Joe Blackwood @joeblackwood.bsky.social
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Yeah, pretty much any shooter where you can't just pull out your tube projectile on hotkey 3 and no scope the chopper - you gotta look at yourself isometrically and find cover - that's the headspace I'm in when the Blackhawks come down from Great Lakes or wherever and maneuver over my neighborhood

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Side note, I'm beginning to suspect there is some correlation between how much of a neolib Clinton is being vs. how intensely she's dressing like Chairman Mao

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> Kinda felt like I was in Arma for a second. Like I was supposed to be evading them. Thank god I'm not the only one

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I agree with half of that. Just based on my firsthand and secondhand experience going to university with Chinese students, the barriers to get in *and stay in* might be a little too low... but if they do graduate, the pathway from there to citizenship needs to be made way, way simpler than it is.

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It would be a pretty inarguably moral thing to do, done for an arguably immoral reason... and thus too funny to ever come true

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America really ought to be aggressively brain-draining any country that even slightly annoys us. "Oh, you won't sign this trade agreement? Ooops, free citizenship for the first ten thousand doctors from your country. So as we were saying..." Like, it's a moral good *and* vicious realpolitik.

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I have never once followed a pet social media account and never planned to, but today you freaking got me

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Japanese immigration policy reform in a nutshell 🤦‍♂️

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Ohioans, today is a good day to check to see if you are still registered to vote in our state. And if you are not, or if you haven't registered yet, today is also a very good day to do so.

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Thinking about pulling out my guitar for the first time in 8 years so I can record the world's first and only fast cover of this beautiful song youtu.be/EQ7NOmRKuAE

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This is why I will never Post Face! I would simply die where I stood if my friends, family or colleagues discovered how uninteresting my anonymous and unfiltered self is

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(sung as Sting) you don't have to put on the red light

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I hear ya. If I close my eyes tight enough, I can see into the alternate universe where I own a Japanese N64 and JapanRetroDirect has my kids' college fund.

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As someone who was intensely interested in ghost hunting as a preteen/teen, this was a hilarious ride. Thank you for taking us on it.

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I'm so happy to see someone doing Japanese game import/export as a business, but with such style and love for the trade. Even just clicking around the site menus is a treat.

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Ah yeah I did end up getting my money back via credit card charge back, but since it was the first time I'd ever been directly scammed I got curious and started digging. Thank you for asking, though!

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Thinking about maintaining a list of Chicago stand-up open mics that can accommodate a PowerPoint presentation

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I've seen Dad drinking maybe twice in my entire life. Grandad gave me a sip of Guinness when I was 6 or 7 and I almost started crying. It tasted like nearly-rancid Communion wine + liquefied burning tires smell. A few decades later I kinda like it though

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Ordered a cassette from a label in Indonesia. It arrived smelling very, very strongly of fresh cut green onion. The actual cassette, not the packaging or case. Perfect Indonesian cassette ordering experience 👌

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I think 401ks are the second coming of Satan but ideally somebody would've told the 50+ folks that as they get closer to retirement they need to rebalance it away from stocks/bond markets and toward stable value funds. It's still a pyramid scheme for everybody younger than them though

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* Suggested by a 9½ foot long CROCODILE

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Bahaha this rhymes really nicely with the "soothing sounds of the ocean" cassette I got awhile back that ended up being 50% dolphin noises. It turns out dolphins are not the least bit melodic and accordingly I was not soothed

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Yes absolutely this too! I refuse to be a transmission vector 😤😤😤

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Everyone is free to write an IRL D&D character sheet where they put all your stat points into strength. We, the big D&D party called "humanity," just gotta make sure we don't let these folks try to cast spells, persuade innkeepers, etc.

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