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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 17, 2019, 10:28:17 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer @Pinboard I think that's some pathology specific to NY state or NYC?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 17, 2019, 10:01:20 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard pretty much all the economy. We need the economy to really fucking tank before the election.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 16, 2019, 11:55:02 PM
In Reply To @starletdreaming
@_tomchristie @github Yes, this is what @discourse is intended for.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 16, 2019, 10:16:37 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@Beschizza also the whole Red Sonja thing, I had no idea! She looks amazing
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 16, 2019, 9:40:44 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza absolutely incredible
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 15, 2019, 4:02:01 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life github dot com is an example of how to do this the right way, basically special (web) sauce on top of the open source bits
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 15, 2019, 1:37:36 PM
In Reply To @spies_please
@spies_please Some people may not appreciate Wind Beneath My Wings
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 15, 2019, 1:35:53 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer Exquisite
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 14, 2019, 2:56:45 AM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard @indica Not any more
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 13, 2019, 12:46:35 PM
In Reply To @openback
@openback @SlackHQ They did add that option after considerable protest
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 13, 2019, 12:43:44 PM
In Reply To @BoingBoing
@BoingBoing Enjoy is maybe not the word I would use here
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 13, 2019, 11:02:21 AM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles the stupid hat argument is irrefutable
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 13, 2019, 9:36:46 AM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza It looks like it can be oriented vertically or horizontally to me? I agree they should have perforations / ventilation on more sides, hard to see in one pic
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 13, 2019, 9:27:21 AM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza Not quite; the Dan A4 Sfx build is very similar in volume and a 2070 is plenty safe in it. 2080 Ti or super high watt cpu is a diff story
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 12, 2019, 10:04:14 PM
In Reply To @Hanzo55
@Hanzo55 space war
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 12, 2019, 3:55:59 PM
In Reply To @ftrain
@ftrain I feel like if you have to explain this, the design is wrong
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 11, 2019, 5:52:58 PM
In Reply To @HitokiriEric
@HitokiriEric Of all the true D100s, I think yours is the highest (scroll through replies with me to verify please?). You win! Let me DM you!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 10, 2019, 3:50:33 PM
In Reply To @TedDennison
@TedDennison @Lucas_Trz the pic is so that I know they have a real D100, champ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 10, 2019, 3:39:33 PM
In Reply To @Lucas_Trz
@Lucas_Trz the angle of photo is hard because the die is reflective. Trust me, it's a 33.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 9, 2019, 9:06:03 PM
In Reply To @spies_please
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 8, 2019, 12:34:28 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard I love a good Omelas joke in the morning
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 7, 2019, 4:17:12 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles instead, a company should offer free stuff for fingerprints. They'd collect billions
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 6, 2019, 8:57:11 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf about time
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 6, 2019, 8:35:58 PM
In Reply To @CashewLeCat
@CashewLeCat give it some Googles and see what you find 😉
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 6, 2019, 7:57:48 PM
In Reply To @joshk
@joshk @GrittyNHL @Tesla fantastic analogy. Being interesting is everything!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 6, 2019, 12:52:46 PM
In Reply To @JohnONolan
@JohnONolan Yes this went on our internal Discourse
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 6, 2019, 12:51:56 PM
In Reply To @shog9
@shog9 @MeganRisdal @hairboat 👏👏👏👏👏
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 6, 2019, 12:14:40 AM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@jongalloway or the Zankou Chicken
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 6, 2019, 12:14:17 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway you ought to take her up to Glendale for a real good meal https://t.co/FdeoqkoTLY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 5, 2019, 10:12:07 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard @__apf__ The problem is the poop
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 5, 2019, 7:22:50 PM
In Reply To @edmcl
@edmcl nuts crunch don't they?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 5, 2019, 7:06:28 PM
In Reply To @KristyT
@KristyT dang I was noticing this too
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 5, 2019, 7:00:44 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza yes I love those too. Also "open water" which I *highly* recommend as IMO the purest existential horror movie I have ever seen https://t.co/g93q3KPK7U
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 5, 2019, 6:48:51 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza I thought Krakauer's Into Thin Air (also a *terrifying* movie!) fixed this, but apparently he just made it worse
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 5, 2019, 2:26:41 AM
In Reply To @gilmae
@gilmae @larryv @Pinboard Koalas are nice if you like the delightful smell of urine and eucalyptus
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 5, 2019, 2:05:34 AM
In Reply To @lcpriest
@lcpriest What the hell? Keto cookies? Is this alchemy???
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 5, 2019, 2:00:59 AM
In Reply To @fuzzy76
@fuzzy76 Hard agree
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 4, 2019, 10:05:34 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles yeah but everyone assumes that because it's EXCITING
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 4, 2019, 10:04:52 PM
In Reply To @0x00string
@0x00string @textfiles same network, ads target the "same user" per my previous reply
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 4, 2019, 10:03:14 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles I think this was disproven a long time ago. They're pulling down tons of ad related resources over the same network as you, etc, so you get hit with it too as the 'same user' https://t.co/uiRkXy0zXK
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 4, 2019, 8:17:08 PM
In Reply To @sleepy_keita
@sleepy_keita Apple (and not Qualcomm) has shown how much performance ARM can deliver, so the writing is really on the wall here.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 4, 2019, 1:09:20 PM
In Reply To @krmaher
@krmaher @SaraJChipps @StackOverflow Stack has the same community tensions as Wikipedia, but on a slightly smaller scale. Those communities (and their leadership) can learn from each other.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 3, 2019, 7:08:53 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza how would you interpret that data?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 3, 2019, 6:38:44 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley El Cerrito near where I live. Come visit. We'll have lunch. I give excellent christian side hugs
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 3, 2019, 6:36:46 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
I remember being utterly dumbfounded at what that data revealed. Yet again: measure what people actually *do*, not what they say they will do. Because there's a huuuuge difference in practice.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 3, 2019, 1:24:26 PM
In Reply To @pearsonified
@pearsonified get latest and rebuild at the command line https://t.co/up54Eoy3Yo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 2, 2019, 11:36:02 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@patio11 @patrickc Combine with historically low first world birth rates and.. you get even *more* rich old people plus fewer young people to balance things out
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 2, 2019, 11:28:52 PM
In Reply To @patio11
@patio11 @patrickc Remember that average human lifespan is increasing from 1920 onward as well, though it has likely plateaued here in 2020? Means more old rich people
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 2, 2019, 7:00:02 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard I detect sarcasm
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 2, 2019, 6:45:13 PM
In Reply To @xor
@xor yet another episode of https://t.co/magPerqjUT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 2, 2019, 1:11:15 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa @bgrantIII Yeah I was super done with this by the end of season 2. It had promise in season 1
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 2, 2019, 10:19:59 AM
In Reply To @maliech
@maliech @mmmandel @timbray @ShopifyEng Huge barrier to entry for contributors, based on my experience running the @discourse project since 2013. Ruby is.. complicated. Is that what joy is to you?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 1, 2019, 9:01:58 PM
In Reply To @luispedrocoelho
@luispedrocoelho @patio11 what other metric could *possibly* matter? Popularity is life. Otherwise you're clumped at the bottom in obscurity with Visual Basic and Object Pascal..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 1, 2019, 8:57:43 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@luispedrocoelho @patio11 Ruby is basically doomed at this point from my perspective. I mean it can technically survive, in the sense that "https://t.co/DFFz2ie1CO" survives, sort of..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 1, 2019, 8:14:19 PM
In Reply To @notdetails
@notdetails this is utter genius
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 1, 2019, 7:33:46 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@patio11 my tl;dr is that you get a Galapagos Islands kind of effect. Really interesting stuff in isolation (sometimes utterly fascinating), but the minute an outside predator gets in, game over.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 1, 2019, 7:30:49 PM
In Reply To @patio11
@patio11 it makes sense in software. Take a really long, hard look at why Ruby is where it is technically, versus where it should have been.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 1, 2019, 7:25:37 PM
In Reply To @patio11
@patio11 culture barriers too daunting. This is also partly why Ruby (the language) is a decade behind where it should be.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 1, 2019, 6:58:01 PM
In Reply To @AgentM
@AgentM @Marvel @lorrainecink Sooo underrated it is criminal https://t.co/YKMLohaURG
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 1, 2019, 6:54:07 PM
In Reply To @hergertme
@hergertme Pc gaming FTW
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2019, 7:40:33 PM
In Reply To @ironicsans
@ironicsans Extramarital affairs
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2019, 7:40:02 PM
In Reply To @lizardbill
@lizardbill Is.. is... he gonna say 23 skidoo when he leaves?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2019, 5:29:00 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@samsaffron @dhh @mmmandel @timbray @ShopifyEng In ten years will there be more or less open source rails projects? Based on current trends: a lot less.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2019, 5:27:55 PM
In Reply To @samsaffron
@samsaffron @dhh @mmmandel @timbray @ShopifyEng Mostly it eliminates the free option, that is also why so few open source projects are based on Ruby/Rails. It does not bode well for the future
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2019, 4:25:48 PM
In Reply To @dhh
@dhh @mmmandel @timbray @ShopifyEng there are lots of great environments these days, it's certainly not the dark ages of 2008 any more
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2019, 3:58:07 PM
In Reply To @ericghill
@ericghill @dhh any programmer who thinks of themselves as a "typical user" is *incredibly* dangerous in my experience. Deadly.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2019, 3:48:42 PM
In Reply To @dhh
@dhh programmers are the worst kinds of users -- selfish, authoritarian (as in they love their own authority), and incredibly biased
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2019, 2:33:09 PM
In Reply To @jmwind
@jmwind @mmmandel @timbray @ShopifyEng I agree at a certain scale you're making so much money that it barely registers; that's how it is in software
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2019, 12:46:52 PM
In Reply To @dhh
@dhh The idea that programmers are more important than users is a harmful, selfish fantasy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 29, 2019, 9:46:07 PM
In Reply To @mmmandel
@mmmandel @timbray @ShopifyEng It does, it just costs 10-20x more to scale it. Which you can easily afford if you're Shopify, or any other "man in the middle" merchant service.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 28, 2019, 10:07:19 PM
In Reply To @KristyT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 28, 2019, 6:11:28 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard @ErrataRob @hacks4pancakes Is this why we don't have peace in the middle east yet?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 28, 2019, 4:32:17 AM
In Reply To @marcgravell
@marcgravell Good for you Marc
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 27, 2019, 2:54:26 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway are there rocket launchers in the game
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 27, 2019, 12:36:14 AM
In Reply To @jeffsand
@jeffsand @XArcade that panel needs a spinner, though.. can't be an arcade without a spinner..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 27, 2019, 12:30:40 AM
In Reply To @jeffsand
@jeffsand @XArcade shouldn't the room be a bit darker?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 26, 2019, 5:38:14 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard is today's political climate in Poland considered a "success"? 😔
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 26, 2019, 1:45:58 PM
In Reply To @patio11
@patio11 very similar to my process
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 24, 2019, 10:29:39 PM
In Reply To @DocPop
@DocPop You dodged a bullet, you should be thanking them
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 24, 2019, 7:34:56 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
"the most haunting and emotionally resonant record of his career. Often compared to Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks'" https://t.co/3ydqg20Nq3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 22, 2019, 3:45:03 PM
In Reply To @betsyphd
@betsyphd What.. what number am I? 😬
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 21, 2019, 11:37:39 PM
In Reply To @gu3st
@gu3st I'm.. not optimistic
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 21, 2019, 10:47:00 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
hear me out: Beat Saber, but with combine soldiers
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 21, 2019, 10:45:18 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway checkmate
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 21, 2019, 8:44:06 PM
In Reply To @ftrain
@ftrain I believe the correct response is "eggplant emoji" "peach emoji" "water drops emoji" but let me check with my millenial friend first BRB
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