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    Comment #37876112

    Good Mitchell and Webb bit about "identity theft": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E

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    Comment #36541781

    Thanks, didn't know this - but from my experience, DMT smoke smelled and tasted kind of plasticky (like when you burn plastic). Did I just interpret the poop-smell differently?

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    Comment #36541731

    For anyone reading, I think this is the best description of derealization in the thread. The window metaphor is good. I even had a quite literal experience of this "window" kind of…

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    Comment #36502597

    > slowing down passage of time My days/months have been flying by and I thought I was just because I'm getting older. Thanks for mentioning this in the context of working from home…

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    Comment #36386375

    yeah I went back to google to verify the information - like the other commenter said, I didn't know where to start, so gpt was very helpful. It's shocking how gpt has almost no uti…

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    Comment #36372939

    We won a set of fancy cast iron pans and gpt explained to us what each of them are for. Way better experience than googling or reading wikipedia.

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    Comment #36372886

    pre-kindergarten I thought it was elemeno!

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    Comment #35980219

    I cant give up DDG cause those shortcuts are just too damn good. !m and !ud

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    Comment #35953121

    I just got "Rattata". Like the Pokemon.

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    Comment #35941564

    [flagged]

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    Comment #35780735

    Government-approved, advertiser-approved - what's the diff? It's all garbage when it's being forced on you.

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    Comment #35360369

    Maybe it's economics.

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    Comment #35281902

    Devils Tower something something The Abyss.

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    Comment #35251461

    This reminds me of a part of In Dubious Battle by Steinbeck where Doc Burton talks about large groups, the "group-man". > ...they seem to me to be a new individual, not at all like…

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    Comment #35172631

    I'm trying to learn emacs too - last night I kept ChatGPT open and asked it any questions I had ("what's the hotkey to open up a new window below the current one") and I'm getting …

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    Comment #34747940

    thanks, I didnt even think that this could be one of those ddg flags. big m! fan btw

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    Comment #34673552

    You have to know what to ask it.

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    Comment #34620615

    I set the Mac OS dock to auto-hide and it frees up, like, an inch of space. Blows me away when I see people with the default-sized dock always open. Any real reason for this?

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    Comment #34513242

    I was going to write the same thing! More like "scull medicine".

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    Comment #34511167

    WOW I will never sleep on a plane again.

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    Comment #34502854

    Screw this company - my poor dad got perma-banned for sandbagging and he has no recourse.

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    Comment #34444854

    I like something Schopenhauer said about a lot of errors coming from either defining a concept too generally or too specifically. Something like that

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    Comment #34393637

    I think the reasoning goes they're small and high-calorie.

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    Comment #34357894

    I love this device when it's used comedically in movies/tv shows - like this King of the Hill episode: https://youtu.be/U9v_nTo5qmY Anyone have other good examples?