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I need these.

@davidaugust why, it's still a bone either way!

@davidaugust Definitely bone shaped :p

@davidaugust I will say this it's usually rich assholes (like TD yesterday) that make life harder for everyone else especially people with disabilities and cause lawsuits against them. People usually just want to do the simplest things don't make it harder than it is necessary to do that

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Cute

@davidaugust I'm sorry but did somebody actually read the basic details about Schrödingers work?
*"****Schrödinger thought that the cat being both alive and dead was “quite ridiculous”**** and intended his thought experiment to challenge other scientists’ suppositions about quantum mechanics."*
https://www.britannica.com/science/Schrodingers-cat

@davidaugust @peter That’s great until you’re arrested wearing an extra finger, or even if there’s just online evidence of your familiarity with this ploy, such as comments about it posted on th—oh, shit.

@davidaugust The downside is that Inigo Montoya would think that you killed his father and expects you to be prepared to die.

@davidaugust that's awesome!

“…findings suggest…coffee can limit SARS-CoV-2 infection by inhibiting…interactions... Coffee also reduced protein levels... Bioactive compounds in coffee… showed inhibitory effects. The human trial showed that sera from regular and decaffeinated coffee consumers can suppress SARS-CoV-2, including the Omicron variant. …authors suggest…coffee intake could be a potential dietary strategy to prevent infection in…post-COVID era.” - from the article

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#COVID #CovidIsNotOver #coffee

@davidaugust this is better than the alternative reason why I was the only one in our household not to catch the latest round: plain, dumb luck.

@davidaugust that's very creepy. Did you notices how her lips weren't quite in sync with her voice? extra creepy

@davidaugust "We'll likely all be opting-in to creating AI versions of ourselves very soon"

Absolutely fucking not. Hasn't anyone seen The Congress? Jesus, people. I understand that people feel like they might as well get paid if it's going to happen anyway, but consider what you're legally signing away when you do this.

@davidaugust @virtualbri Definitely, not the bright future I had in mind 20 years ago :-(

@davidaugust I DON NEVER KNOW I AM FRE

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Most mental illness is inflicted on others by the mentally ill with this mindset. Social conservatism is low-grade psychopathy. Prove me wrong.

@davidaugust @gus_shepherd@furry.engineer...did it want all squares with the sign in it, or only the squares with the iconography?

I'm not even sure which of those would be more ontologically correct...

@davidaugust is it terrible that I looked at that and thought “huh, English should be capitalized there”. :D Pedantry indeed.

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In a story I wrote, there's the following interaction:

"You can't be here!"

"Well, if I CAN'T be here, then who are you even talking to?"

"You know full well I'm addressing you!"

"Well, I think you have the wrong address! Stupid!"

@davidaugust I feel called out massively

I do this so often with the question 'can I use the bathroom' that somewhere half the year other students will pre-emptively groan at my joke when someone asks it that way.

@davidaugust Maybe anti-magic processes.

@davidaugust when the wizard eventually falls after trying to execute runyoufools.exe it returns two weeks later as a blue screen

@davidaugust You have to call Dorothy! That message is about the Wizard of OZ....

Twitter at its peak performance

@davidaugust This is actually kinda insane. I hadn't thought about the impact for Weather reports and other similar things

@davidaugust I wonder if this also opened up a new DoS vector? Just send 600 tweets where you mention a specific user. Would their client then immediately try to load these and use up their daily budget?

Or is there also a limit on how many tweets one can send? But then, someone would just need 10 accounts and send sixty tweets each?

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definitely not like that

@davidaugust once worked for a “company that is like your family”, regularly heard the daughter of the owner calling on the over head in the shop floor “Daddy, call on line two” and the IT guy who swore when the network went down to immediately hear from the receptionist “William! Language!” And his sheepish answer “sorry grandma”.

@davidaugust I'm reminded of an exchange from 'Spy Game,' one of my favorite films...

Harker: We just need you to be a team player on this one, Muir.

Muir: [chuckles]

Harker: Why is that funny?

Muir: Every time my coach told me that, I knew I was about to get benched.

@davidaugust I had a long tradition on the birdsite of periodically tweeting "always call out Schrodinger's douchebag" at appropriate junctures... I shall keep this going on Masto, but there hasn't been a need, yet...

@davidaugust ..or, every Republican in Congress

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How to we call comedians who base their career on this kind of douchebaggery?

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@davidaugust @ellieraeuk instead you’re just Harrison Ford’s dog. Damn.

@davidaugust too many do not “realize”..

@davidaugust so, mediocre is what we end up with, all the time.

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I don't get it.
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@davidaugust I disagree. If by "good" you mean easy, intuitive - sure. But categorically excluding powerful, flexible, straightforward is not what I personally want.