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  Closing the barn doors after the horse has been made CEO.

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  Major food groups: - Nightshades - Alliums - Bread - Cheese - Fancy cheese - Bacon

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  @sgirlprivacy@universeodon.com @godpod I'm still waiting for the release that brings in teeth 2.0, a complete re-implementation that just... works without special attention and doesn't cause pain and suffering. That really should have been sorted out before it left early access. It's pretty bad.

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  @sgirlprivacy@universeodon.com @godpod Yeah, there's still that bug where every time you look at a screen or book close up it permanently adds some floating point error to your eyes' focus.

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  @staidwinnow @JRBuckley And after a long period of having no official moto, they made "in god we trust" the official moto of the country in the 50s. Is it even that compelling of a moto for people who are religious? "E pluribus unum" seems so much better.

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  I blame Gerald Ford.

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  @autogynamelia@mastodon.social If we're imagining a future with magic pills that can cure/change things like this, that has far more wide-reaching and interesting consequences. So if people like this are really interested in such speculation, no need to focus on gender dysphoria. Imagine how foolish some people are going to look when the pill to cure lust for wealth and power is available!

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  Apparently The Wind in the Willows was published the same year the Ford Model T entered production.

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  Trying to use the Stylophone Gen X-1 inspires me to make a black and white science fiction film. Hopefully that doesn't require anything other than funny sound effects.

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  Corporate Jenga: how many employees can you remove before it all comes tumbling down.

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  Conservatives: "It's inappropriate to mention homosexuality in any way in elementary school. Or gender (whatever that means). They're too young to understand it." Also conservatives: "We MUST display the ten commandments in all classrooms so kids know NOT to COMMIT adultery."

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials_in_early_modern_Scotland "[The witch hunts] returned after the Restoration in 1660, causing some alarm and leading to the Privy Council of Scotland limiting arrests, prosecutions and torture." "Limiting" torture? If politics at the time were similar to today: "We are proud to announce a bold plan to phase out the torture of witches by 1720. We are instituting torture limits with a cap and trade system...&amp...

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  Business tip: if you abuse all your customers and employees in categorically different ways, they can't file class-action lawsuits.

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  "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (other than Anish Kapoor, IBM, or affiliates and subsidiaries thereof), to deal in the Software without restriction..." #OpenSource #Linux #RedHat

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  "These damn communists want to abolish private property! So we can't own anything!" - Says the SpaceX employee as their rented Tesla drives them into their rented house in the company town. Meanwhile, a notification appears in the corner of their eye that starting next month, they will need to update to a Neuralink Ultimate Supreme Pro subscription if they wish to continue knowing Spanish.

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  The gendering of clothing is defined exclusively by total pocket volume.

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  Learn Linux to impress all the cute nerds' dads.