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 I can't imagine being a bartender and having to pretend that every fucking idiot who comes into your bar is interesting and not the fucking worst 
 eh, I take it back, he just compared flying commercial to being forced to ride a bicycle on a fre... 
 @dee34601 flying commercial on the outside of the plane maybe 
 nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh no. 
 @dee34601 it was worth a try 
 i love "Loki" and i refuse to do homework to watch it. 
 @dee34601 how about just 5 things 
 nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh my hot take is that i'd rat... 
 @dee34601 Agree. It's also a known quantity - I know walking through a could of cigarette smoke is not going to immediately kill me. Vape smoke could have literally anything in it 
 @dee34601 I don't get vaping. It's probably almost as bad as cigarettes but it ALSO makes you look like a doofus 
 @dee34601 Like, cigarettes are terrible, but you can look hot smoking a cigarette, no getting around it. You can't look hot vaping 
 @dee34601 I don't get vaping. It's probably almost as bad as cigarettes but it ALSO makes you look like a doofus 
 hey pst, every time you dunk on Elon Musk you are giving him exactly what he wants, which is atte... 
 @dee34601 FTC is going to win this and Amazon will pay a fine of 16 seconds worth of global revenue and nothing will change 
 @dee34601 and we're just finding out about it now because none of those people caused any trouble, they were just doing regular people stuff but in a different country from where they were born 
 i guess i have to go back to pre-Web 2.0 and find some good aggregators?? are we doing fuckin' bl... 
 @dee34601 blogs suck for the most part, we killed those too 
 @dee34601 "A class is an object, and a  class has objects which can be used to object to other objects objectively" I don't know what's so confusing about this 
 Python makes perfect logical sense until you get to classes and then suddenly it's all "the dingu... 
 @dee34601 whenever I have complaints about Python, I go try to write some JavaScript and then I feel much better about Python 
 Mitt Romney has understood for YEARS that the Republican party has become a toxic cesspool of so many -isms and has made a career of criticizing it just enough to make liberals think he's a good guy 
 He deserves zero credit for speaking out in the least effective way possible 
 Android is sooooo much better than iOS, I can’t WAIT for this fuckin’ phone to die so I can s... 
 @dee34601 this guy over here fishing for trolls 
 @dee34601 Gremlin 1's soccer team is looking to go to Barcelona end of March next year. Not sure if we can make it work but will keep you posted 
 i've thought about it and concluded that the most "American" meal possible is a BLT (white bread,... 
 @dee34601 should you add something deep fried that probably shouldn't have been? 
 friend of mine from way back just died of colon cancer right before his 40th birthday. hug the on... 
 @dee34601 I had a friend about the same age die of cancer recently, too. 
 i generally try to avoid saying ugly things, but the end of the fuckin' world gets me a little bi... 
 @dee34601 ha, I was just trying to figure out what that report was 
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 @dee34601 here's why that's a problem for Joe Biden