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Things That Happened Recently question 

Who are the "patriot prayer people"?

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I keep seeing people making posts about Things That Happened Recently and I'm lacking a lot of context and it feels awkward to ask people about things >.<

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grf, it seems like every time I interact with someone I don't know well already it results in some kind of misunderstanding making either me, them, or both of us uncomfortable

sometimes I remember that ramsets exist and that's just so... weird

if you aren't aware, a ramset is a nail gun that uses an actual pistol blank to propel the nail into very hard things like concrete; it's literally a nail gun

it's a ridiculous tool

today is "everything is stressful" day, the worst holiday

i mean I already did do that thing about the interesting grammar of the Akʔana language with its weird person system

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kind of getting into the idea that it'd be kind of neat to make a conlang and oh no is this going to be my next obsession

I will never get over how wild it is that inverse kinematics is actually computationally easy because it _feels_ like it should be a very difficult problem

there are many things in computing that feel like they should be simple but are actually hard, but few things that feel like they should be hard that are actually easy

the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

random question because I heard someone pronounce it in a way we're not used to hearing: how many syllables does the word auxiliary have?

apparently contrapoints made another video but everyone talking about it is just saying contra so for a moment I thought there was a new contra game or something

question about presumably bad person? 

so I saw things earlier on here about how someone named Epstein had passed away and that people seemed to think that was a good thing but I have no idea who that actually is

the name was _all over_ the tabloids at the checkout at the grocery store just now so now i'm curious

random question because I heard someone pronounce it in a way we're not used to hearing: how many syllables does the word auxiliary have?

@esp@sleeping.town @GlitterDisaster@snouts.online I like when weird things line up like this in my home column

Ancient famous people had fantastic names sometimes.

I want to see someone today named Anaximander or Vercingetorix or Zhuge Liang or Montezuma.

found an old sign-up card for playstation underground

I wonder what would happen if I filled it out and sent it in

An interesting thought: in a society of shapeshifters, a genre of puzzle book that consists of photos of people wearing unusual shapes with crucial anatomical parts concealed, where the goal is to figure out how to make that work anatomically

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- Electronics engineering (from theory to soldering technique, pcb design, and sourcing components)
- Electronics repair
- Bits and pieces of cosmology, astrophysics, chemistry, advanced mathematics, and general relativity
- Some aspects of college/university life, but you're probably better off asking someone else
- Recommendations for fantasy novels and really good rpgs (including both old and new hidden gems)
- PC building
- low-spoons food
- an eclectic collection of trivia

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huh, apparently there's a thing people were doing about a year ago to help find people who can help with stuff, under the tag , and that sounds like a useful thing so here's mine: (in the reply)

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