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[thathumanbeing-alex]

Did you get possessed?

I somehow broke a 32GB flash drive by trying to flash UbuntuMATE to it

(I followed the instructions on the offiical website and used BalenaEtcher, my flash drive doesn't have a physical write-protect switch)

[thathumanbeing-alex]

No cause I want a window seat

Would you ride the train if:

This was your seat

This was the coach car

This was the Cafe car

This was the only empty seat

And this was a map of the train car you are seated in

[thathumanbeing-alex]

I saw Kensington and immediately was like nope

Shitty Philly house of the day

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The full announcement is slightly different, today is the 21 year anniversary of the guy who first released it starting work on the game, the twentieth birthday as you said isn’t for another week

Ya see this?

Oh, wow, that's fucking awesome

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If you don’t mind me asking here, what was the cable actually?

I TRIED to avoid mastodon reply guys. I was making a joke about a cable, and I put it under a CW saying "this is a joke. don't reply seriously or I'll block you"

and, well... it mostly worked. I only get one reply that was serious, and that person apologized for not reading the CW later.

But you know what happened instead? I got like 30 replies of people not being serious. no one told me what the cable actually was, yes, but 30 people told me what it wasn't.

So I guess you can (mostly) avoid reply guys if you state up front that this is a joke and they shouldn't reply, but you'll get just as many replies making jokes instead.

It's up to you if that's better.

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Repent for your sins against vim

What is a os

emacs

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Or just use Vim

My C++ IDE yelled at me because I'm trying to learn from a 30 year-old book.

see, I solve that by using 30-year-old IDEs.

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IIRC they tell you to do that because people allegedly can’t hand write italics (it takes a bit of active thought but it’s doable)

big fan of The Dictionary, the mythical entity that prescriptivists believe exists. I am always learning more about the beliefs surrounding it

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And don’t even mention the black erasure found in calques

big fan of The Dictionary, the mythical entity that prescriptivists believe exists. I am always learning more about the beliefs surrounding it

[thathumanbeing-alex]

How do you feel about a 16:9 video with a VHS/CRT filter

Bonus for if it’s not 480i

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Isn’t explaining what neoliberalism actually means on Tumblr fun, also you’re right that Carter wasn’t a card carrier, but he started some deregulation (a lot of the home brewing scene is thanks to him) but the amount he did pales in comparison to Regan/Clinton

I thought Carter/Reagan/the other Neoliberal presidents spun Amtrak off so that it operates independently, why do you need Congressional approval for anything?

Amtrak is Government Owned and funded

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I know what Neoliberalism is (our economic hellscape of privatization drives) but it’s confusing because many Neocons (which is not the counterpart to neoliberalism but to the new left; it’s dumb) are also Neolibs

I thought Carter/Reagan/the other Neoliberal presidents spun Amtrak off so that it operates independently, why do you need Congressional approval for anything?

Amtrak is Government Owned and funded

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They didn’t pull a Post Office with y’all?

I thought Carter/Reagan/the other Neoliberal presidents spun Amtrak off so that it operates independently, why do you need Congressional approval for anything?

Amtrak is Government Owned and funded

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Being the anti-@penn-central-official

"No Place Like Home For the Holidays" is ProCar propaganda, I can promise you from Atlantic to Pacific the Traffic is NOT terrific. Well unless we are doing a pro train reading where the traffic is actually great on the train

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If he has the song of all time, why hasn’t jan Misali made a toki pona translation of it?

WarioWare Bracket: PENNY vs DR. CRYGOR

Penny Crygor

"Huh. You actually are getting a bit of this... I owe Grandpa $5."

longs to become the best singer-scientist in the whole universe.

[Super Mario Wiki article]

Dr. Crygor

"Of course I support you no matter what..."

Penny's cyborg grandfather.

[previous matchup]

[Super Mario Wiki article]

[link to all polls]

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Not Saffron? Silph Co.

What place in the Pokémon universe is the best by your standards, all media considered?

Goldenrod City

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Literally the only public transit we have here is three light rail lines and an extensive bus system that slows me down when I’m trying to drive into town on the I45 HOV lane (I’m not opposed to buses, just please don’t get on the single HOV lane)

Things to get rid of:

Suburban Houston

The I5

The state of Connecticut

The Riverside San Bernadino Metro Area

Anti Union legislation

NYPD

Norfolk Southern

Probably some other shit