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A loom that learned to weave itself.

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I hear he’s in the public domain now.

sentient_loom,
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Why? I never heard of this.

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I buy albums and listen on my chosen app rather than use a social media music streamer.

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Thanks for the information.

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I bet it’s heavily redacted. Somehow the big names will avoid being discovered.

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It’s called an “alternate title.” It’s different from a subtitle, which is a separate object. The alternate title is part of the normal title.

You asked what it was called but you were already calling it what it was called.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitle_(titling)

sentient_loom,
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So you think it was presidented before it was presidented?

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I put cocoa powder in my chili.

sentient_loom,
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Just to be dramatic I’ll go one step further and call this terrorism.

sentient_loom,
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Just another five minutes.

sentient_loom, (edited )
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Canada says Merry Christmas even though we usually do British spelling and measurements.

Also, the north pole is either in Canada or Russia (not going to look it up) so we are probably correct.

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It didn’t. Where did you get that idea? Everybody just makes fun of him.

Is there an artist so horrible that no matter how hard you try that you cannot separate their art from them?

Similar to the recent question about artists where you can successfully separate them from their art. Are there any artists who did something so horrible, so despicable, that it has instantly invalidated all art that they have had any part in?

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That’s really inviting layers of ugliness into your life and your mind, and subjecting your guests to stealth ugliness.

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Officially no. Realistically yes.

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It’s poison, and you’d be subjecting yourself and your guests to poison.

It’s not funny, and Burt K is a drooling moron. He’s pretty much brain dead.

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That’s actually really satisfying.

sentient_loom,
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Maybe you just got older.

sentient_loom,
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You owe them games. Now you have to make games for steam.

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I grew up dirt poor out in the woods. I never had hope.

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Extremely depressing, socially isolating, psychologically warping. I’m a responsible, intelligent, ambitious person, but I’m not a functioning human. I’m severely and permanently damaged by poverty, even though I grew up in Canada. I’m 40 but I just managed to start a career about two years ago because I’m borderline unemployable and emotionally unbalanced (I worked my ass off at careers for 20 years, and utterly failed, constant burnout and humiliation, social assistance, moving back into a parents’ tiny apartment). I work remotely which is the only way I can ever hope to maintain a steady job. I can’t maintain normal relationships because I was largely denied social interaction growing up, and my brain can’t cope with social things now. I stopped trying to force myself to learn because it was literally decades of torture that didn’t work. People keep telling me I’m autistic but all the doctors say “nope, you’re just fucked up” (actually they use words like “personality disorder” and PTSD and anxiety disorders and ADHD and other stuff. I have a long list of diagnoses for which no treatment was offered except pills which mostly don’t work, although I’ll admit that ADHD meds helped me get a bunch of work done and also straightened out my brain a little bit. I don’t take them anymore but the positive effects are still with me).

Now, it looks like I’m doing a lot of complaining here. But in truth I’m just describing my “no hope” landscape. Hope sounds like poison. I have things to do, and right now I have a pretty good life.

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We moved around a lot, almost always rural. I had a big family so they were always a close crew, but also always very strained and stressed. We had a Nintendo and bicycles. I usually had friends around until I was 11, but then we literally just moved out into the forest where there was nobody else. For 7 awful years I was like in a prison. I lost the ability to communicate, but not the desire. I dreaded the summers because I knew I wouldn’t see a single person outside my family. My parents were constantly stressed, always on a sour mood. The forest was hard on them too. I would mostly try to entertain my siblings amd read books. Depression became the biggest feature of my life. There was just nobody. Then I would go back to school in the fall and I didn’t know how to communicate anymore, and was constantly sad and lonely. But I denied those feelings because I didn’t want to be a bitch.

My very young life was awesome. Until I was maybe 7 or 8 we always had tons of family and friends around, including when we lived in rural villages. We were poor but so was everybody else. But we had to keep moving to chase work, and I always lost those relationships. And then as I described above we moved out to the absolute woods and my brain started to rot. I really have no idea what “hope” could even have looked like.

There were good times too. My siblings and I would explore the forest. We followed a river up a mountain until there was no river anymore (its weird to see it getting smaller and smaller until there’s nothing). We built sledding tracks. We found an abandoned cemetery from the 1700s just in the middle of the forest.

Mostly I just read books. And that’s still what I do.

sentient_loom,
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I still work hard because it’s an antidote to despair and depression. It’s a necessity but it does not lead to material reward.

sentient_loom,
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Hey man. Thanks. I’m doing well, I’m just countering the idea that millennials en masse had something called “hope.”

sentient_loom,
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I didn’t even know they has a mascot. And now my idiot-brain wants to learn c++ for a bad reason (on top of some good reasons).

sentient_loom,
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Yeah the “owned by google” thing is a big turn-off. And telemetry… he’ll no. Also it’s weird that Go doesn’t have a ternary. It’s a small thing, but it’s a thing.

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