“The most merciful thing in the modern tech stack, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of top-level abstractions in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The reverse-engineers and security researchers, each straining in their own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of computation, and of our frightful dependence upon it, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”

– H.P. Lovecraft after learning about CPU vulnerabilities

An ideal pickup line, to me, is one that has a chance of establishing a rapport over a shared interest, while not coming across as *too* weird/creepy in the event the other person doesn't actually share that interest.

For example:
"You remind me of the babe."

For another example:
"Hey, did you know the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV Online has an expanded free trial up to level 70, now including the award-winning Heavensward and Stormblood expansions, with no restrictions on playtime?"

this unit's timeline appears to be frustrated by daylight saving time. it has a suggestion to solve this problem! 

we must destroy the sun.

when we were kids

the internet was a place where leading experts in every field would hang out with penniless teenagers

we were the latter

it was pretty amazing

nostalgia should never be purely backwards-looking, but that seems like an important thing to try to build again, somewhere, somehow