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I find I can avoid⁷ most³ parentheses by using footnotes¹ 🤷‍♂️
¹) many people² appear to find footnotes irritating⁴, but they don't break up the reading flow as much as parentheses do.
²) or at least the ones I talked to about this. There may well be a sampling bias here.
³) maybe even all? I can't really think of a counter example, but might well be missing something somewhere.
⁴) "irritating" may not be the best word here - there's a perception of pretentiousness about footnotes⁶ that parentheses don't seem to convey.
⁵) This footnote isn't even referenced anywhere. You found it anyways. Yay, you!
⁶) Probably owing to the difficulty of inserting and tracking them before computers took most of that burden from us.
⁷) Or better "replace".

i beg everybody who's rotating text in photoshop to change the antialiasing from sharp to smooth so that the letters' baseline isn't completely off-kilter like a ransom note

@rgb Lol, yeah. She's 20 years old, though, and had plenty of opportunities to learn other programming languages. She's doing Universal Learner Courses at Arizona State University and decided, on her own, to take a programming course. Only too late we learned why the language being taught wasn't listed in the description 😂

does anyone in the uk need their retro computer serviced/fixed/restored. i need money and i don't have a work visa

roses are red
violets are blue
bitches be gay
you know that it's true

‪it's so cool when the the chord is angry at you for playing it. like it goes from a pleasant doooooo to a gaaaaarghhhhghghgghghgh‬

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local girl discovers distortion (audio effect) and immediately becomes obsessed with it

forget wheels vs doors, do you think there are more sadists or masochists in the world? and i'm talking in as broad terms as possible, not necessarily defined kink rolls. do more people enjoy hurting or being hurt?

Me: Computer, please open this file full of numbers and display them on the screen

LibreOffice [very excited]: I have just invented the smollest, cutest window ever devised. I have named it Windy

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Because these billboards are just monitors rotated 90 degrees, they’re invisible to polarized sunglasses. It’s like a real-life ad blocker!

How did we get here?

In what universe does anyone think that it makes sense to be greeted by this when you open a web site?

How the heck is the average user expected to be able to understand any of this?

How is sharing my stuff with 834 partners "responsible use of your data"?!

I hate everything. (I know, I posted a similar thing a few weeks ago but this really pisses me off)

You can already "QUOTE TOOT" in GoToSocial if you:

  1. have markdown enabled
  2. are brave enough to write the following into the compose box
<blockquote cite="https://goblin.technology/@tobi/statuses/01HD47AEDY7QSHN5SDR4PJVYAV">
  <p>*deep drag from my comically long cigarette in its diamante holster* actually sweatry it's not a GoToSocial bug</p>
  <footer>—tobi, <cite><a href="https://goblin.technology/@tobi/statuses/01HD47AEDY7QSHN5SDR4PJVYAV">a post thereby</a></cite></footer>
</blockquote>

Produces the post seen in the image. Booya. Eat it nerds.

update: actually europe is the best. sorry we just are. i realised if i use my IKEA KOPPLA power strip instead of my other one then i can actually connect the power adaptors for my pc, monitor, laptop, phone, other phone, watch, midi sequencer and midi module SIMULTANEOUSLY⚡️⚡️⚡️

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So, watched a couple of episodes of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off and it's good, gonna watch more of this

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