Software Consultant and Neophyte of the Exalted Order of John McCarthy.
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Slughorn would have 100% said some shit like this
His parties were basically wizard high-society speed dating
Slughorn lowered his voice, glanced around the staff room, then pulled Harry a little closer.
“Potter, listen carefully. What you do with this is your own business. But Felix Felicis is not a contraceptive. It isn’t. It never is. Liquid lucks helps you meet the right person, at the right time, in the right bed — even Malfoid’s bed — but it does not stop a pregnancy. Luck is no substitute for a condom, old friend.
So if you still planning to sleep with Malfoid, always carry some. One, two, a whole box if you likes. Felix only makes the night go smoothly. The rest is an adult’s responsibility.”
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A single dude brought in some chestnut trees from Japan in the 1800s for decoration and now almost no American Chestnuts exist because those imported trees carried chestnut blight
Zero sympathy for people sneaking in agricultural goods. Stay out of my country.
Reading the replies to this, it’s amazing how many people don’t understand that this is how invasive species/pathogens are often introduced into the country, costing billions in crop and ecosystem damage. Good dog.
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We've evolved beyond the need for utf-8. ASCII is a false god, a graven image. We should carry on as the iconoclasts of old and tear down any software still relying on some shit cooked up by American telecom people as a hack 60 years ago so we can usher in the pure unicode utopia
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Yeah man it's a sausage. They're made with cured meat scraps and fillers because it's economical.
I wonder if medieval people had their own version of "pink goo" foodposting
Slim Jim is made with mechanically separated chicken. The ingredients are beef, pork, mechanically separated chicken, water and textured soy flour, then corn syrup and salt.
Mechanically separated chicken is what's left on the bones after the meat has been cut off. The bones are pushed through a sieve under high pressure, and the meat still stuck to them comes out as a smooth paste. USDA allows it, but it has to be listed by that name. The textured soy flour stretches the meat and holds water.
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I remember the first computer I used being Windows 3.1. I learned my letters because I wanted to play DOS games and you had to drop down the DOS prompt to get them running
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The Shinsengumi is more like a praetorian guard. "ICE, Japan" is just the normal police because Japan isn't a federal system and so regular-ass police are the ones who do immigration enforcement there.
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I have zero interest in emulating the top-down family autocracies of your shitty, regressive homeland. Western nuclear families have always practiced this and it's part of our long traditions which resulted in our countries not being clannish shitholes.
Cutting off your parents is trash behavior except in extreme circumstances.
Even though we are told immigrants should “assimilate” this is one area where Americans have plenty to learn from southern Europeans, Asians, and others.
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You should basically never give notice. It's a boomer fantasy. Shittalking a former employee when called for a reference opens up too much potential liability so almost no one will say anything beyond, "Yeah [x] worked for me and this is what he did here" even for bad employees
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tbh the desire to 'spread English' feels like a very British thing with how much money they put into it
The default burger position is to just never interact with any foreigners ever if you can help it.
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"Enshittification" really only makes sense for tech because it's the one space where companies intentionally invest money into making their product worse in specific ways to hopefully earn more money down the line.
For regular industries, it's just this.
"Enshittification" is a sort of "safe horny" term for what is really just outright impoverishment and declining living standards due to economic insolvency from deindustrialization, demographic decline, hyperinflation, etc.
You are just de-developing and becoming poor.
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His hatred of beards is puzzling. I understand banning them for a lot of roles, but if you're serving on a ship, it's your god-given anglo-saxon right to grow a sailor beard.
Hegseth: "We are no longer the woke department or the weak department... No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors."
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