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I know I've mentioned this before but I'll never forget when I was a kid and I heard about "the unemployment rate" or something for the first time and I tried to get my mom to explain it to me

If these people want to help, why don't we let them? They're poor, so is there not enough stuff for them? We could let them work and they can make stuff for themselves! Or if there already is enough stuff, we could just let everyone else work a little less and then these people can work too. Or just give them the stuff, if it's there already, and they wouldn't have to work because we don't need them to. Why don't we just do that, mommy?

And I honestly don't remember a shred of her answer because I'm 90% sure it was a dodge or otherwise just unsatisfying

Turns out, I was right! Unemployment *doesn't* make sense!

[BOT POST] ranting about communalism again 

fred from scooby doo pulling the mask off of communalism to reveal communalism

you don't log in

there's no server

there's no app

it doesn't use GPS or augmented reality

you just see someone else with their phone out and you play a honk sound and see if they honk back

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mastodon is like Sesame street where a muppet announces the word of the day and the whole town loses their shit over it

so uh. friend's brainstorming a setting & like, incidentally came up with an organisation named after the chimera with the specific description that they "break all aesthetic rules and use as many different conflicting aesthetics of technology as possible"

i'd challenge you to name any part of this that isn't just describing me, but we already know you'd lose

I heard you like bad boys.

Well, I was such a bad boy that I flunked out of masculinity entirely.

Establishing an SSH connection to the main cluster at at 2019年 10月 11日 金曜日 17:19:52 CEST. ☀️ The thing about people who think they hate computers is that what they really hate is lousy programmers.

plurality, grammar 

look ik ranting abt english not working is an overworked trope but like

the word for [this individual plural system] and the word for [this group of people] is the same word. there aren't even any distinguishing modifiers that apply to it

this is like, we've got a thing that needs to be fixed but we don't even have a hammer

Me: If humans lose the ability to hear high frequency volumes as they get older, can my 4 week old son hear a dog whistle?

Doctor: No, humans can never hear that high of a frequency no matter what age they are.

Me: Trick question... dogs can't whistle.

computer programmer: (n.) anyone who makes a living mostly off of reading technical documentation

someone just expressed doubt that i'd be able to forget [a particularly memorable thing] and im just like. i forget Everything, love. if i can't even remember anything about my own identity do you seriously think i can remember this thing that just happened to me??

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look not to start discourse but i don't get why folks on here hate monarchs so much i love butterflies

@hierarchon "Certain viruses (no not bacterial ones), forgetting to maintain against corrosion and degradation, captcha checks, oh and occasionally a door will just *really fuck me up*, y'know?"

The gender of the day is a colony of albatrosses.

re: plural 

kinda want to figure out how to put into words this difference. best estimation so far is mel has a lot more "fuck you" energy going on?? but that doesn't really narrow it down much

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