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@AmateurAssassin
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Software developer. 6-time Golden Globe winner. Brooklyn.
I'm OK being left behind, thanks!

Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable. "You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered. That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. What is there to be left behind from? If BitCoin (or whatever) is going…

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dream theater always gives me hope as an 80% vocalist
men used to have honor. now we just have podcasts.

I had someone tell me that Antifa were terrorists last night, in a European hackerspace. Because demonstrations can be violent.

Dunno who needs to hear this, but I grew up through the Troubles. I know what *real* terrorism is. It's not violent protests, by any means, even if they are unpleasant and you don't like them.

The inflation of that word to mean anything you don't like has to stop. Just hope and pray that you don't end up in a place that has real terrorism. You really don't want that.

I have the most pointless job on earth where it contributes nothing to society. I write best practice docs that no-one reads, but we must have them in case we get audited. I wrote a best practice seven yrs ago that contained lyrics from Ice Ice Baby & still no-one has noticed.
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One day on 9/11 there was a man, and that man was an eagle, and when that eagle saw his countrymen suffering, he threw himself into that steel fire to save innocents dying in New York, Afghanistan. And that eagle's name... was America
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Funny, Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation talks a lot about the war and not a word about pilgrims

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/abraham-lincolns-proclamation-thanksgiving

Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of Thanksgiving

On October 3, 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation designating “the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving.” Lincoln’s...

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Back in my day we didn't have no cryin' in the sport o' boxin'