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Nerd. Minister. Polyhistor. US Presidential Candidate for 2028 ⭕ English ⭕ Esperanto ⭕ 日本語 ⭕ Español ⭕ le français écrit ❌ le français parlé

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Joined February 2007
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French either needs to be spoken as it is spelled, or the language should be quarantined so it doesn't do further harm to the world.
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It is 2026 and I cannot reliably transfer files between my PC and phone. There are workarounds. They are not reliable. The workarounds exist because the functionality was broken in the first place. As it still is, in the year 2026.
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"From what our sources are telling us, his defense strategy seems to be implicating Vincent Price, a small dog, and a young Tibetan boy who he refers to only by what we must assume is a racist epithet. Police have declined to comment on the status of the man's Grate Dane, whom they say is being 'held for testimony'." "You mean evidence." "That's a verbatim quote."
Man accused of planning terrorist attack enters ‘not guilty’ plea in federal court ebx.sh/WqiUYt
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Hey @YouTube, I don't know what the purpose of your current UI changes is. I'm assuming it's to make it more cluttered and less usable, because that's all it's doing. My willingness to spend money on YouTube Premium is going to hit a brick wall if I don't even want to use your site in the first place.
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Dear Santa Gunn, I know it's early, but I want to give you time to get started. For Christmas I would like a film trilogy featuring The Question, one movie for each of the three main arcs of his character: from Ditko to O'Neal to Timm. You can put that last version in your Justice League film if you can't get all three solo movies. It'll be fun. Mr. Timm can attest.
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I'm so unjustifiably proud of this stupid joke that I'll probably chase down the correct fonts later. (It is for a real lesson, but the slides aren't done due to me wasting time on this nonsense.)
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"How easy is it to take your own advice?" That's all the advice I take. Someone else has better advice? Yoink! That's my advice now. I hate being wrong so much that I will take correction as early as possible.
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I'm watching an excellent documentary by someone who I consider to be a terrible person with whom I would not associate. The world would be lesser without his work. I would be remiss if I rejected his work or tried to prevent its distribution because of who he is as a person.
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Microsoft Teams is improving at a shocking rate. Last week I was able to connect to a meeting on desktop, and today I was able to connect to a meeting on mobile. It's like I'm living in the far-flung future of 2003.
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Goodbye, Firefox. You were important. You were good. But there is no escaping the betrayal of trust from the management of your parent organization. May you and Mozilla itself come to be under better care one day.
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I'm late to the game on this. I was prepared to do this the moment they had their TOS "oopsie", but I had a lot of tabs to deal with.
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The US currently subsidizes its ethanol production, giving other nations good reason to ban its import. Much like China subsidizes much of its export-destined manufacturing. If the corn subsidies stop, we'll have proper standing to expect other countries to buy US ethanol.
Replying to @USTradeRep
2/10: India bans imports of U.S. ethanol for fuel use. Similarly, Thailand restricts imports of fuel ethanol, requiring approval and issuance permits, and hasn't approved an import permit for fuel ethanol since 2005. Securing market access to India and Thailand for exports of U.S. fuel ethanol would result in at least an additional $414 million in annual export value.
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A story in two stupid, stupid parts.
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@HPSupport Any advice on how to get drivers for this laptop? Intel doesn't distribute chipset drivers for this device, and the list probably reflects more missing than that.
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Hey @VIZIO @VIZIOsupport I understand why I'd have to agree to new terms to continue using updated smart apps, but why can't I even access the SETTINGS menu on my V705x-J03 after an update was auto-installed?
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I love living in modern times.
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If you draw a swastika to tell the world that someone's a nazi, consider that you're the one drawing swastikas.
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The wisdom of age is hearing "To Be With You" by Mr. Big and think that singing to the girl who just had that bad breakup is a huge mistake. If she so immature as to be with that guy in the first place, she's still covered in red flags.
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I have not lost a single sock in the dryer since I started buying and losing flash drives.
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Two things that are not contradictions: - Russia (Putin) is the aggressor who invaded Ukraine, breaking former agreements. - Russia (Putin) will not stop without some way to save face. Neither of these can be ignored without more needless sacrifice.
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When did the Google Voice acceptable use policy start prohibiting typos?
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