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  when america burns, canada sends help. when canada burns, america sends mean tweets.

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  in 1995 i had the honour of taking part in a canada day parade. we were on tour and had stopped in some small bc town for gas and, on the way out, scott just decided to drive around some traffic barriers because, y'know, punk. we made a left onto the main drag and found ourselves behind a float of 20 sikh guys dancing bhangra. wasn't until the crowd started making noise that we realized we were in the parade. drove the whole damn route. got sandwiches at the end. five stars, would reco...

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  salsa day done. and, for the first time in history, before midnight.

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  being an arsenal supporter is extremely tiring.

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  mariadb is a 'drop in replacement' for mysql if you don't ever use ANY_VALUE.

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  @coderCyclist this is why i love the rise of the word "opinionated" in software. really leaves open the "this bug is actually a feature... in my opinion" door. also, STDIN at least, is, like, a big deal. people use pipes n' such a *lot*.

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  getting slack screensharing to behave properly in hyprland has been such an abysmal failure that i am now a reluctant cosmic user.

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  got a text with this link that said "thank you for not having kids". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0jCA_q5Zws

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  @petrillic this passed luxury and moved into the realm of necessity a week and a half a go. have you seen my hair? it may look like yahoo serious on an off day, but allow me to inform you that it is goddamn high maintenance.

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  this city could legit change it's slogan to 'every drop counts' and everyone here would all be "that tracks".

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  sql having keywords like 'select' and 'insert' is just a sloppy coat of procedural paint covering up the beautiful declarative wood grain, and i think that's kind of a bummer.

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  got texted this without comment and it is perfect.

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  api for multimillion dollar company returns everything labelled 'time' in the timezone of the requester and i ran this on three different ec2s in three different locations to confirm and now i am going out to the backyard to scream.

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  i was literally just about to complain about how cachyos shipped a new lazyvim and didn't update tree-sitter but decided to run one last update first, and lo...

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  if a solution seems simple, it’s probably a strong indicator that you don’t fully understand the problem. this is probably the most important thing i’ve learned in my life so far.

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  looking at videos from that artemis thing and they’re wearing chinos and taking selfies and drinking big drinks through straws and we just sent an olive garden into space, didn’t we.

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  slack screenshare on hyprland is irreparably broken for me. hours of tinkering and zero results. mike says “why don’t you install a second, more mature, de and just log into that for meetings”. so i’m installing cosmic. no. i will never learn.

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  i have been using some variant of *nix as my daily os since 1998 or something and, still, every time i run 'tar czf' i yell 'compress zee file!' in a harsh german accent in my head.

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  playing a character who refuses to drink potions because he's convinced they're bad for your teeth. think i'm finally running out of roleplaying ideas...

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  apparently windows 12 will be: - ai first - subscription based - require a neural processing unit suddenly, all those "year of linux on the desktop" jokes don't sound so funny anymore. https://tech4gamers.com/windows-12-reportedly-relasing-2026-modular-ai-focused-os/

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  everyone's arguing about permanent daylight time or permanent standard time and you just know that newfoundland is going to split the difference and make that something-thirty-in-newfoundland thing law.

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  the albini session of 'in on the kill taker' has been released after something like 30 years. it is also bandcamp friday. https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity

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  the dev from the integration partner pronounces 'lib' as 'libe' and 'char' as 'care' and i know how he got there but every time he does it i have to hit the mute button so i can scream.

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  have you seen the people who get elected mayor in the bc interior? guarantee at least two towns are going to go with “narnia standard time”.

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  for the love of all that is holy, please pull a branch before you create a new branch from it.

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  mariadb is a drop in replacement for mysql unless you want to use the json -> operator.

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  i am wearing this old toque that has been described as "itchy and scratchy" and since scratching is used to address itching i assumed the two would cancel each other out. but i was wrong.

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  in case you're wondering if i'm feeling old or not, i just bought an album from a band with mckaye and canty in it. no, not ian and brendan. their *kids*. https://birthdaygirlmusic.bandcamp.com/album/birthday-girl

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  there are some integrations where you learn after a while if something is easy or obvious, it is probably wrong.