I'm putting a tariff on the word "tariff"!

Hooked up an arcade dispenser to give me a ticket every time that god-forsaken word shows up on my computer screen.

20 tickets == 1 beer

@gvy_dvpont genius.
How many beers can one person drink?
@mothninja @gvy_dvpont, depends on available time, how many are available within reasonable staggering distance, and how much you drink of each.
@gvy_dvpont That is hella cool, but I pity you for your hangover.
@gvy_dvpont Brilliant! Here's what COULD happen if you're not careful: https://youtu.be/RvYn6LHdB4g?si=gSdqObwhOHKjkNU4
Office Merger Drinking Game

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@Bon_Jardin @gvy_dvpont That. Was. Amazing.

Could have changed my attitude about mergers (Hooray!) pretty fast.

@gvy_dvpont omg this is neat!! I totally need to procure one of these ticket dispensers for when I complete an item on my todo list to swap for a ticket!
@stephanie Thought of you and your workload…
@gvy_dvpont i want this. i need this! precious, PRECIOUS!
@gvy_dvpont but how do you use the three sea shells?

@gvy_dvpont For a while now I've considered building a self-censoring browser extension that just hides any text blocks with certain keywords.

The idea being that if enough people use it, certain headlines will stop getting traction and ultimately starve the subjects of those headlines of oxygen.

@gvy_dvpont Right up there with the Burned Your Tweet contraption. https://youtu.be/hDXwWdCMBuU
burnedyourtweet

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@gvy_dvpont
Absolutely brilliant action.
Who is old enough to remember the automatic penalty notices from Demolition Man?
@gvy_dvpont Try with Hillary emails 😎
@gvy_dvpont Why are you trying to kill yourself with alcoholism? Are you paying the tariffs on that beer?
@gvy_dvpont John Spartan, you have been fined 1 credit for violation of the Verbal Tariff Statute.
@gvy_dvpont now, you need to update it to accommodate for “pause”, “exemptions” and “rollbacks” 🤣🤣🤣

@gvy_dvpont

Is the #nobelprize committee on #mastodon?

(Edited to fix inexplicable autocorrect of mastodon tag)

@gvy_dvpont you'll have to drink much more, much faster
@gvy_dvpont
Alcohol poisoning incoming in 3... 2... 😝
@gvy_dvpont Does it have a photodiode to detect the gap between tickets or is the motor just timed?
@lopta both, unfortunately! It definitely has a photodiode because I had to punch holes in the tickets to prevent them from feeding through infinitely (the dispenser auto-loads them until it detects a break). HOWEVER I could not get the output pin, which is supposed to pulse with each ticket, to work. So I just figured out how much time each ticket required and did it manually.
@gvy_dvpont @lopta a perfect solution for a perfect problem