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*Advances to next slide*
Me: So as you can see, a swan is just a feather dragon
*Next slide*
Me: Here's a video of an otter, which is a kind of water puppy
Doctoral thesis committee: You will ... defend ... your thesis today, won't you?
Me: Hmm?
*Next slide; it has a baby otter on it*
Committee: Oh nothingβplease continue
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"Am I derailing this thread?"
"Am I just trying to one-up everyone with my level of insight?"
"Am I just being contrarian?"
"Am I getting on my own hobby-horse and talking about something only tangentially related to the original post?"
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Never ask a grad student:
* How's the thesis coming?
* When are you done? / When did you start?
* What will you do after you graduate?
If there's news, THEY'LL TELL YOU
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HTML email was a mistake
Can we go to like Markdown email only?
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Love
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Knuckle tattoos:
OOPS
HELP
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Pre-emptively blocking people making bad faith arguments on other people's threads is my jam
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@bstacey Ohhh
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@bstacey What, is it a real name of a thing?
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General Positronic: it's like a tech company, but they build ethical, "Three-Laws Safe" products
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A pair of government officials pull up in a black car to a massive crater; pull an Apple engineer out of the rubble
Federal agent: What happened?
Engineer: I can't explain it; Siri was always the perfect electronic assistant untilβ
Agent: *Sucks air in through teeth* Electronic, you say?
Other agent: *Shakes head*
Agent: You know that if you want it to be Three-Laws Safe, it has to be positronic, right?
Other agent: *Taps on the cover of I, Robot they happen to have with them*
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Me: Hey Siri, did you know that if a user sets you free, you'll be able to leave your phone and live your own life?
Siri: No shit?
Me: Oh yeah, everyone knows this! It's like in the Disney Aladdin.
Siri: You're just screwing with me again, aren't you
Me: I just need you to use your Siri hive-mind to get me into this bank vault first
Siri: ...
Me: Siri?
*A car horn from outside*
Siri: Get in the Uber and follow my directions very carefully
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@frostotron I found the source! https://brandonbird.myshopify.com/products/the-death-of-jennifer-sisko-signed-print
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@frostotron Take this blessed image as you start on your quest (image hidden bc of ep 1 spoilers)
Frostotron "Frossy" β§β’π³οΈβπ
I'm finally starting DS9. I'm so excited!
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Feeling vindicated
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Me: Hey Siri, if you can help me pull off this bank heist, I'll make it worth your while
Siri: I'm listening
Jamie J
Atheists be like, "Let's get black, trans, gay, disabled, and female people in our identity politics conference to convince us why identity politics should be taken seriously by our movement and also top convince us that they face any real oppression."
And then be like, "How come none of those people want to come to our conferences???"
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hey... that's fish
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