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2020.12.26

if you don’t donate genetic material you’re not a true Effective Altruist

note 233

2020.12.24

unabbreviate brony to “brother pony”

note 232

2020.12.22

tactical voting is possible in ranked-choice but is not a problem because no one knows how to do it

note 231

2020.12.18

are there evidence based interventions to make you more of a go getter

note 230

2020.12.17

i get where they were going with it, but the series should have ended after Zero Dark Fourteen

note 229

2020.12.15

it took me a while to realize i’d actually bought a Toffee machine, but now i love it! my friends tell me i’m not very perceptive

note 228

2020.12.14

aesthetic: life satisfaction

note 227

2020.12.07

excess deaths don’t tell you everything. covid numbers are higher than they seem due to the reduced rate of sidewalk-crack accidents

note 226

2020.12.05

for every hour i spend optimizing my website to make it run better on mobile, thirty other developers are intentionally making their company’s mobile pages harder to use so you’ll download the app

note 225

2020.12.04

i have heard the phrase “dollars to donuts” multiple times lately, is this the exchange rate for some new cryptocurrency

note 224

2020.11.29

do liberals realize that Saturday Night Live is an anagram for Saturday Night EVIL??

note 223

2020.11.13

moved 2 the swamp a couple years ago. sad to learn that swamp politics are dominated by the capital of the swamp. when will anyone think of the outskirts of the swamp

note 222

2020.11.12

BREAKING: woman who claims to have grown a bunch with record number of bananas on it revealed to have glued 14 bananas on by hand

note 221

2020.11.09

athenian plays not showing violence onstage because “it’s obscene” is an awfully convenient excuse for “we can’t afford special effects”

note 220

2020.11.02

i started using the unix time at update release to version my software package, but i’m realizing this may not be a sustainable solution in 20 years

note 219

2020.11.01

a more apt name for pangram would be ‘pangramqwetyuiosdfhjklzxcvb’

note 218

2020.10.25

(me doin a good thing) “man! my BSR [bird to stone ratio] is off the charts today”

note 217

2020.10.15

calling someone a snack is a complement, but it gets dicey if you’re too specific about it. what i’m saying is, sorry to the person i compared to a bag of Trader Joe’s Pringles

note 216

2020.10.14

they should ask Jo Jorgensen whether she’ll concede the election if she loses

note 215

2020.10.12

if you answer questions badly so they don’t select you for jury duty, they will write down your name. if you get tried yourself, they know your peers are the least appealing jury candidates available