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2026-07-11 19:51:51 UTC

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There's been research about that, showing what data they are picking up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCAqdqo-SJU
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2026-04-23 16:52:09 UTC

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I am assuming that wasn't directed to me.
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2026-04-23 16:00:45 UTC

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How do you know these are state-sponsored?
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2026-04-12 19:18:06 UTC

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I want to know who would ever wear that sort of clothing for gardening. A white dress shirt?
[@c_merriweather](https://social.linux.pizza/@c_merriweather ) @npub1ucv…5a8g @npub1san…jgxu

2026-01-29 17:17:53 UTC

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My job entails walking around SF much of the day. I see a lot of robotaxis going by. It's a little hard to tell because of the tinted windows, but I'd guess about 75% of them are completely empty.
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2025-12-13 07:42:59 UTC

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Also a whole lot more fun than flying! Worth the extra cost.
[@Bradley_JF](https://mastodon.online/@Bradley_JF ) @npub1fat…ngqu

2025-11-11 01:07:34 UTC

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We know. Ordinary Americans typically want universal health care.
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2025-10-30 15:48:54 UTC

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This doesn't sound like something the corporate overlords are going to regret. It sounds like a great way to avoid taking responsibility for moving their industries offshore.
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2025-10-26 16:09:37 UTC

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Not entirely clear how we'd accomplish that. If you work for an employer, taxes are automatically taken out of your pay. You have very little personal control over that process.
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2025-09-25 05:26:16 UTC

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I think maybe it used to assume gender. Lately I've been hearing young women address each other as "bro."
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2025-09-23 06:06:18 UTC

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What happens if you go into Settings > Webpages > Fonts and change the default fonts?
#vivaldi
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2025-09-23 05:12:35 UTC

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I think it's your system's default font, or at least a default style sheet. Are you doing this on a Linux system? I'm using Windows and it's a different font.
The Vivaldi devs are on Mastodon. Maybe tag them and they might be able to help?
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2025-09-23 04:57:11 UTC

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That same page in Vivaldi looks nothing like that for me.
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2025-09-13 15:43:08 UTC

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I'd love to do this but sadly, international travel is not a thing I'm physically capable of.
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2025-09-10 04:12:12 UTC

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I started to fill it out but gave up partway through when I realized my answers couldn't be fitted into the format. It asked me to include *all* platforms where I do moderation, but only had room to give answers about one of them.
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2025-09-07 19:12:45 UTC

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Yeah, absolutely. I'm kind of surprised that anyone is just now realizing that. It seemed so obvious.
One quibble, I'm not sure it's just Trump, who is clearly not going to last all that much longer. You have to assume there's some sort of plan for a successor. Whether that plan actually works is another thing.
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2025-08-27 05:49:10 UTC

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My phone. I hate e-ink with a passion.
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2025-08-18 15:19:33 UTC

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Gamers have been using "NPC" as a pejorative for years now.
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2025-08-11 18:38:13 UTC

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Are the wild plums edible?
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2025-07-11 16:00:51 UTC

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California doesn't have a harvest season like places that experience winter do. There's harvesting going on for most of the year, depending on the crops you're picking.
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2025-07-01 15:30:59 UTC

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Minor correction, that's part of California. It's not what we have here.
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2025-05-18 15:40:11 UTC

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"I've heard people suggest that products that last slow economies. That isn't true. They change who gets to make money."
This right here is probably the real driver of disposability. If things last, rich parasites don't make excess profits from people continually replacing manufactured goods. Instead ordinary people keep the income from repairs in their circles. Can't allow working class people to thrive, or they won't be willing to be pawns any longer.
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2025-05-10 02:08:51 UTC

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Yes. Sometimes it just fails to let me log in, or won't update the feed if I do get in. I don't have the technical expertise to guess why.
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2025-05-09 14:47:54 UTC

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Have to say that my experience using Matrix so far doesn't inspire confidence or a desire to keep using it.
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2025-04-05 18:54:29 UTC

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You're not that likely to see it unless you are a target of it (or you help run an instance), because most of it occurs in DMs or as replies to specific people. It's commonplace for different groups of people to have extremely different experiences on Mastodon, and for those experiences to be largely invisible to others, just because of the way the core systems work.
So absolutely believe people who tell you they've been subjected to racist harassment, even if you have never seen that.
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2025-03-17 18:08:07 UTC

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I found a more detailed set of instructions for doing this:
https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/how-to-learn-to-ride-a-bike-as-an-adult.html
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2025-03-17 05:52:41 UTC

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The way they do it in classes for adult beginners is to remove the pedals (which usually requires a special pedal wrench) to create an adult-sized balance bike. You then lower the seat until you can sit on it and run. Gradually, you lift your feet off the ground while you're moving, until you're confident with balance and steering. At that point, you reattach the pedals and raise the saddle so you can ride the bike normally.
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2025-03-13 16:47:59 UTC

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I don't know about editing it, but the date of birth is on nearly everyone's page, if they're notable enough to have one.
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2025-03-07 22:16:46 UTC

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Silly people. Technology and security have always been political, even back in the days when technology meant an automated weaving loom. Someone who says they're separate is either ignorant or has a very, very narrow definition of politics.
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2025-03-03 18:44:45 UTC

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I'm pretty sure that even romances featuring male/male relationships are written for women.
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2025-03-03 18:30:18 UTC

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That's odd. I guess you and I are not reading the same romance novels, because I can't think of any where there's a lot of brooding going on with anyone. Nearly all of the ones I read don't feature heterosexual relationships though, so maybe that's the difference.
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2025-03-03 01:52:47 UTC

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I guess saying, "Sure," without really thinking about it, when my housemate in Boston asked if I wanted to come with to San Francisco, where she would be going to school. I'd been to San Francisco once, when I was 11, and hated the place (but I hated everything when I was 11); other than that I knew nothing about the city. But I'm still here 30 years later.
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2025-02-25 22:26:52 UTC

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The only wealthy people I can imagine wanting to come to this country now are ones who are trying to avoid going to prison in their home countries.
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2025-02-08 10:57:48 UTC

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I've seen it in stores but never eaten it. Confusingly, they sell seasoned pieces of it in packages as a meat substitute, which seems like a weird thing to do with fruit.
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2025-01-30 21:38:48 UTC

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This is a very good explanation; thanks for recommending it!
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2025-01-13 01:53:08 UTC

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I've always tended to the opposite, to try not to telegraph that I know men are there at a distance, but watch them surreptitiously. I have ditched someone who was following me once that I know for sure, and once when I suspected they were but couldn't be sure, both times in urban areas.
There was an occasion, many years ago, when I was surrounded and physically harassed by 5 or 6 men on the street. I remember acting without any conscious volition, watching the scene from a vantage point a few feet behind my left shoulder -- weird sensation, that. I got right up in the leader's face and screamed at him, and punched him in the chest with the blade end of a screwdriver. (At the time, I had a junk car that had no ignition switch; the screwdriver was for starting the car.) Seems I was aggressive enough to make them reconsider, because when I turned and slowly walked away, they left.
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2025-01-13 00:18:42 UTC

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In both cases, extremely unlikely. First option would be leaving, carefully, while they are still at a distance. Then I would try all other available options before shooting.
In situations where people have shot at bears, it often did not work anyway.
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2025-01-12 23:42:48 UTC

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No, but please don't spread misinformation about the actual danger in a bear encounter, which in most cases is low. Demonizing bears is harmful for them and for us.
It's also worth bearing in mind that many women have been in that same situation, without hope of effective resistance, around individual men.
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2025-01-12 23:32:00 UTC

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What you're saying about bears is contradicted by decades of research.
Grizzlies are in fact pretty dangerous, but even they often walk away if given space.
I've met several black bears, and all but one of them ran off as fast as they could. The one who didn't immediately run away was at a campground where bears were accustomed to finding food, and wanted our dinner. That one too, walked away when people started yelling and throwing things at it.
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/bears/safety.htm
https://bear.org/bear-facts/how-dangerous-are-black-bears/
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2025-01-09 03:23:30 UTC

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It would destroy a lot of ecosystems if that were to happen.
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2025-01-06 10:28:38 UTC

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I don't think art necessarily needs to have a concept at all. It's enough for it to simply have a beautiful form.
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2025-01-06 10:25:58 UTC

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I like what you did with it!
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2025-01-03 23:17:51 UTC

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There are some Mastodon clients that have a quote-boost feature. I've used it myself. It kind of looks like no one even notices when you use it.
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2024-12-30 23:36:24 UTC

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If you're going to do that, I wouldn't use olive oil in it. That will go rancid in time, and be stinky.
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2024-12-26 02:29:14 UTC

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Ugh. I guess we need to start avoiding anything that's tied to an app or requires connection to some outside service in order to function.
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2024-12-11 17:23:42 UTC

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You could learn to ride a motorcycle? As far as I know, they haven't gone all in on collecting data yet.
Or maybe an ebike?
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2024-12-08 09:08:04 UTC

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Well, what I meant was that there are three coat colors recognized for Labrador Retrievers in the US: black, chocolate, and yellow (which encompasses all shades from cream to deep gold).
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2024-11-29 20:41:51 UTC

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I have to ask, because this drives me insane. Where do people get the phrase "Golden Labrador Retriever"? No such thing exists.
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2024-11-21 22:05:20 UTC

"Free fares increase ridership, and more riders mean more spending. More riders plus streetcar outcomes noted earlier are associated with $2.3 million more tax revenue in 2023 than in 2019, adjusted for inflation. This excludes all other revenues, which are substantial.
The bottom line is that the $800,000 in waived streetcar fares is associated with $2.3 million in new tax revenue since 2019 for a net gain of $1.5 million.
Put differently, each $1.00 of waived fares is associated with $2.88 in new tax revenue."
https://tucson.com/opinion/column/local-opinion-streetcar-benefits-offset-free-fares/article_267a4da6-a5d9-11ef-8a86-0361b8d030a2.html

2024-11-15 21:41:40 UTC

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I wonder if not being the biggest is a blessing, really. Those huge numbers come with some significant downsides, such as becoming a much more attractive target for bots and scammers.
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2024-11-13 23:58:44 UTC

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It would be easy enough to compile some lists of suggested follows that people could import. Not as elegant as starter packs but something that could be deployed right now.
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2024-11-12 02:25:11 UTC

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Back in antiquity, when type was still produced on galleys and pasted up, I was a proofreader in a type shop. Once I read a galley that showed the price of an item, plus extra for "whipping and handling"; another time, one that sought donations for research on "beast cancer."
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2024-11-12 01:12:43 UTC

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I used to be the one who did those prepress checks. I can tell you that it's not normal practice to verify that URLs are correct and actually work.
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2024-10-19 22:27:41 UTC

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This tour is definitely worth your time and money, even if you don't have a special interest in South Asian history. A lot of the history is tragic, though, so I wouldn't say it's exactly easy or fun, but it leaves an indelible impression.
I wish there were comparable tours for some of San Francisco's neighborhoods.
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2024-10-18 23:28:31 UTC

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So you quite literally picked it up, hehe.
#BikeNite
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2024-10-13 18:56:56 UTC

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I'm amazed it's only a third. I'd have guessed much higher.
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2024-10-12 21:34:40 UTC

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I can't picture that going well, invoked against someone who has shown willingness to have people killed for getting in his way, and who would have absolute immunity from the legal consequences of that.
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2024-09-29 17:37:16 UTC

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I don't mind paying for an app. But I would like to try it first, without running into barriers that prevent me from looking at even basic features during the trial period.
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2024-09-29 16:58:00 UTC

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Hmmm. That's the app I used for about 10 minutes before uninstalling it because of the aggressive monetization.
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2024-09-26 18:57:36 UTC

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The "valves may melt" warning is a bit, uh, interesting.
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2024-09-18 23:27:20 UTC

Question for #SFBA bike people: If you had an older full-suspension mountain bike that needed some love after sitting in storage for several years, where in SF would you take it to get that work done? Pretty sure every fluid in its little body needs to be replaced, for starters. I don't trust that it's in condition to ride safely, so it needs to be somewhere reachable by Muni.

2024-09-01 23:10:17 UTC

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Let's just reserve one lane of every street for bikes (and scooters, skateboards, etc.) instead.
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2024-08-28 06:19:17 UTC

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We could just make coffee at home.
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2024-08-21 08:14:01 UTC

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The only egg I have in the house at the moment does have a pointy end. I'll have to pay attention to the next batch I get.
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2024-08-09 19:49:45 UTC

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There's a familiar feeling. I often find myself going, "People think this is funny? Really?"
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2024-08-05 19:05:15 UTC

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Can I just whine here about how frustrating it is that moderators have no more visibility into posts than anyone else does? Which means that often we literally can't see some of the abuse that takes place, even on our own instances, unless it's reported directly.
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2024-08-02 21:49:21 UTC

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Homemade tamales are amazing!
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2024-08-01 23:03:00 UTC

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Consider yourself lucky that the dishes make it as far as the sink, rather than just being left wherever they were used.
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2024-07-31 20:19:39 UTC

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How expansive is your definition of tech here? Do things like fountain pens count? Mechanical watches?
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