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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"

"I just don't understand 67. This generation has brainrot."

My dude may I introduce you to 1994 when, like 90% of the boys in my school went around reciting "I am the great Cornholio" and "I need TP for my bunghole" for no apparent reason.

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I started reinstalling the missing programs. IDK which one or how many I installed, but there are still some orphan shortcuts. At some point, the desktop icons quit blinking.

I think it's when I installed one that triggers UAC on launch that they all quit blinking.

Year of the Windows Desktop.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

hi i made a new shirt

transbian.threadless.com/desig

go out there and do some damage

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I'm still hung up on how the 2025 ended.

It's only the 3rd ever WS to end in a ground ball double play (2025, 1947, 1921).

Since 1943, it's the 1st WS to end on the swing of a bat no one knew was broken, & it might be the 1st WS *ever* to end on a broken bat. I'm having trouble finding evidence from 1942 back.

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Misty

And there was much confusion and amusement over the browser changing its name twice in the space of two years. So Cosmic Cat made a Firefox extension called "Firesomething" which randomizes the browser branding every time it starts up, letting you relive the Firefox renaming era for as long as you liked. Doesn't work on modern Firefox, alas.

web.archive.org/web/2004100914

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Misty

I guess I should probably explain this one

So back in 2002 Mozilla released a beta web browser called Phoenix. Only Phoenix Technologies, who made BIOSes for computers, didn't like that, so they got them to change it. In 2003 it became Firebird, which kind of meant the same thing. Except the Firebird database didn't like another open source project using *their* name, so Mozilla ended up renaming it again in 2004 as "Firefox”.

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Misty

Anyone else get nostalgic for the Firesomething extension sometimes or is that just me

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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:

🔥⏰

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I've been reminded (and ran out of space to say had I remembered) that the NL's Yankees, a mediocre team full of fantastically expensive players, played a fantastically talented team full of injured players and still just barely won 3 of the 7 games on pure luck alone.

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Taylor - Romanceable NPC

@arielmt It took a team full of tax dodging super imports to beat a team of injuries, and for one game, the AAA-league roster, to win the World Series in 8.2 games. And their wins were mostly flukes.

The Dodgers did not play better than the Blue Jays.

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The were robbed of so many winning opportunities by so improbably little that the decisive event was the compromised structural integrity of a bat.

They forced the to need all 7 games, forced them to need 11 extra innings on top of that, outscored them 34 runs to 26, out-batted them 75 hits to 53, out-fielded them 0 errors to 3, & exposed their lack of depth beyond their very few star players.

The worse of the two teams was crowned champions.

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So many World Series-winning opportunities all missed by so improbably little, that the final, series-deciding one was the compromised structural integrity of a baseball bat.

The Blue Jays forced the series to need all seven games, forced two of them (3 and 7) to need extra innings, outscored the Dodgers 34 runs to 26, out-hit them 75-53, and out-fielded them 0 errors to 3.

The worse of the two teams won.

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Baseball 

Fuck the NL's Yankees.

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ed(1) conference

Parents, please check your kids' candy this Hallowe'en. I just found a Lisp interpreter pretending to be a text-editor inside one of their chocolates.

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No programs were moved over, so whereas every other version of Windows would use generic icons for the program's desktop shortcuts, Windows 11 causes every icon on the desktop, in Windows Explorer windows, and in the PC Settings app, to cycle constantly between generic icons and their proper icons.

The only supported version of Windows is less ready for daily use than Windows Vista RC1.

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