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Just an egg with boxing gloves for hands from the '80s
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I'm partial to the zero width space, the most nefarious of all the Unicode code points. Not sure if the complete absence of an actual glyph disqualifies it from consideration but finding a use for one is always a good time.
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Since the panels are all flat (factory QC permitting) there's no real reason they couldn't be real paneling.
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Cloud hosting provider that was great but then got acquired by Salesforce. They don't seem to be all that interested in supporting it any more.
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The more mundane an insult the harder it hits, even better if it's somewhat confusing. If someone has sizes you up, thought through all their available options and finally settled on calling you a "Pizza Hut Delivery Moped" you'll be thinking about what they meant for the rest of your life.
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Their trick was you only ever saw the one monkey cutely begging right up until the moment your snack is raining down around you like confetti! You couldn't even be mad, just impressed at their technique and organizational skills.
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Saw some monkeys in a tourist spot that had their scam down to a fine art. One on the ground begs a tourist holding packet of chips. Their mark raises it above their head not realizing there's one up on the wall behind them. Chip packet gets ripped apart and suddenly 20 more appear from nowhere.
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If you arent't from the US then you're probably more familiar with Australian Possum (more like sugar gliders). "Hey, come check out this possum!" is a whole emotional roller coaster experience the first time it happens to you!
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"It's coming home" is the easy one to explain. "Me and me Mum and me Dad and me Gran And a bucket of Vindaloo" is so much harder!
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I love we got to share his joy at George Galloway losing!
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Have you seen this report on Swiss family spaghetti farming that was aired on a very serious news show back in the 1950s?
youtu.be/8scpGwbvxvI
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Yeah, forcing that one month (now 2 weeks) delay on their topical comedy podcast was an incredibly shitty choice to promote an app that nobody wants. I really lost interest in listening to the Then Show or the Olds Quiz.
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Getting most of my news of the old country filtered through the Radio 4 Comedic Universe always makes for a jarring experience when you encounter the real thing.
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According to the schedule they've got 14 hours of election coverage on the North America stream from 21:55 BST www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p0...
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Do they know that it's too late to get on the ballot in some states and that the convention vote is basically just ceremonial this year? Seems like if you're putting forward your very clever opinion that you want people to take seriously you should know the most basic of facts about the situation.
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She's also the voice of Hecate in Hades 2 and has just the perfect tone for a ripped, witch foster mom.
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Hold me close now Teddy Danson
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I think I broke it…
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In naval terminology submarines are boats, so technically…
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The hypocrisy is obvious when you compare their attitudes between tax and benefit fraud. Investigating tax fraud generates revenue greater than its costs but the "fiscal responsibility" crowd are constantly fighting that form of means testing.
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The sequel has you trying to escape the Fixit Rehabilitation Institute that houses the many that have failed their task. Random thought, have you played Infra? Seems like it would either be exceedingly relevant to your interests or the horror of work infiltrating even the escapism of video games.
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Hard pass, I'm just not that into horror games.
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I think the real ones have some optics to focus the image for the proper effect. The good news is Mazda hasn't abandoned the dream of the 90s and still puts a HUD on some of their vehicles.
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If you haven't seen them there are cheap aftermarket ones that plug into the ODBII port. They're just backwards LED displays that reflect off the windshield so not a true HUD. Most of them have that janky AliExpress look but they actually work surprisingly well.
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My personal favorite god dammit Pterry moment — I got way too far through Pyramids before realizing he'd pulled this one:
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I think the incredibly humbling experience of working with version control may be a factor. When you've been cursing the author of a bit of code that's been causing you massive problems only for version control to reveal you are your own worst enemy. Oh, that was me and now I remember the Reasons™
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It's been decades but I can still hear Eric Idle telling me "That doesn't work".
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This is always really subjective. If there's a refurbished office furniture store near you that's a great way to try out high quality chairs at reasonable prices. They aren't as cheap but will likely last 3–5× as long as the consumer targeted ones.
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We already had a perfectly good non-confusing name for bits per second and frankly having a Gigabaud internet connection sounds awesome. I know that baud is technically different in ways that don't really matter anymore. That pedantry should be directed at people stealing 24 MB per GB they sell you
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CVS: we just can't compete with convenience/efficiency offered by online retailers to people wanting to buy candy while stood in the candy aisle of one of our stores.
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Flashback: C&C Red Alert taught me the meaning of the the word "contiguous". "I've got 16MB free disk space, what the hell is this game's problem?" I assume the definition came from a dictionary because that would have been quicker to use than waiting for a dialup connection to complete.
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[Ship engineer watching a steam catapult hurl a plane off a carrier] This yeeting could have been an EMALS
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One common pattern between all the worst people I've worked with was their inability to admit they didn't know something.
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This is how small isolated decisions become a systemic problem. If it's harder for under-represented demographics to get a job then they'll spend longer in the jobs they have. At pretty much every employer I know about the long tenured employees are most valuable and relatively the most under paid.
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The catchphrase of the Senior Software Engineer is "it depends". There's something incredibly humbling about the immediate feedback you get pushing software to the internet. Futile efforts to represent the world in the absolute values of true or false is an excellent way to learn about gray areas.
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sam alito in tuxedo gets recorded incognito
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Not to mention covered in internet connected cameras controlled by a company with extremely lax internal controls.
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C There's a button in some software you— *interrupting* I click it But I haven't told you what it looks like! I've already clicked it, this isn't the 80s there's undo and autosave everywhere now Don't you want to know what it does? I just found out! I'm clicking a different mystery button now…
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It's getting a nice hug from the ground, how bad could it be?
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The purest Gen X experience is being called a Boomer by a Millennial and a Millenial by a Boomer.
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I'm wondering if people who insist they need to pre-rinse dishes in the sink to get their dishwasher to work well are really just unintentionally pre-heating the water.
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I'll pledge allegiance to THAT flag and to the jumbo slice and RC cola for which it stands.
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Only thing I can think of would be if the usb-c power supply you're using is under powered (I think the stock Framework one is 60W) and the monitor's drawing enough to shut down other things. If it can be powered independently that would rule it out as causing power issues.
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Believe it or not there is a bunch of stuff going on behind the scenes with the mobile networks in the last couple of years to try and reduce text message spam. Sadly it was started way too late, isn't a quick process, and political stuff tends to be exempt so you may not have noticed.
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Someone needs to contact their cloud account manager ASAP! Collecting on a bill that bankrupts your customer is not a sustainable way to build recurring revenue so they can be surprisingly flexible in working these things out (but you have to know to ask).
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Instead of choosing sleep like it's supposed to my dumb brain looked at this delicious looking picture, invented a word and felt the need to share. Ahem… Hasselquack (sorry)
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Nicolas Cage in an unconvincing goat costume with Steve Buscemi as the back legs. The humans they're terrorizing are all played by Muppets.
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A nibble?
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Berwyn, IL now has three Metra stations on the BNSF line but Laverge (the first) gets the fewest trains stopping there. I like to think it's because there's still some institutional resentment over the whole situation.
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