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self ( self@awful.systems )  to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 years ago

as it turns out, a mountain of health woo and transfusing your teenage son’s blood into yourself is no match for long covid

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as it turns out, a mountain of health woo and transfusing your teenage son’s blood into yourself is no match for long covid

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self ( self@awful.systems )  to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 years ago
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The Billionaire Who Wants To Live Forever Has Long Covid
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The billionaire who wants to live forever just admitted he has long covid. Specifically, covid wrecked his lungs. If you haven’t come across him, Bryan Johnson is a 46-year-old tech bro who cashed out a few years ago and now spends all his time trying not to die.

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  • self ( self@awful.systems ) OP
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    STOP USING AMPERSANDS

    • years of typography but no practical use found for fancy and
    • wanted to write shorter sentences anyway for a laugh? we had a tool for that: it’s called “emojis”
    • “yes, please give me some A&W root beer to wash down my mac & cheese” — statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

    look at what the ampersand users have been demanding our Respect for this whole time, with all the & & & we’ve built for them:

    they have played us for absolute fools

    • Deborah ( gnomicutterance@hachyderm.io ) 
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      deleted by creator

    • 200fifty ( 200fifty@awful.systems ) 
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      this made me laugh out loud thank you

    • Scary_le_Poo ( Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 
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      The ampersands gets converted to HTML (aka & by various clients).

      In general, it’s a good idea to never use ampersands on the web. A lot of sanitizers do not process them properly.

      • Sailor Sega Saturn ( sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems ) 
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        The majestic breadth of human language should not be truncated for some buggy soulless machine (heck not even that here, but the fear of one)

        It’s a good idea to never use shitty sanitizers on the web, but a great idea to use tags, ampersands, brackets, semicolons, commas, and dashes with great gusto to seek them out wherever they may be hiding.

        Computer may say no, but Sailor Sega Saturn says oh yes.

      • self ( self@awful.systems ) OP
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        what in the fuck

        no fuck off with this. holy fuck I hate that this is your reason to hassle one of my users

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        Sounds like a “not my problem” kind of problem & I don’t see why I should care.

      • gerikson ( gerikson@awful.systems ) 
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        Man this is next level cargo cult “security” thinking.

        Here’s a protip: logoff and delete your account, it’s the only way to be safe.

      • Ambivalent Dictator For Life ( pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ) 
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        @Scary_le_Poo @self what First Day On The Computer shit is this?

      • Steve ( fasterandworse@awful.systems ) 
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        haha wtf this is hilarious

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