Mikesaidit36

Mikesaidit36 t1_jdxej3g wrote

Those smelly slightly damp blue/purple copies were mimeographs. I’m old enough to remember seeing a hand crank machine in an office somewhere with somebody cracking up smelly copies. Different than xeroxes. But I’m just realizing I’ve known what the word ditto means all along without knowing what it comes from.

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Mikesaidit36 t1_iydtoe3 wrote

Reply to comment by melvinsylar7 in English is weird by crispilly

I have a friend named Jeff who is known in a handful of text threads for being able to come up with the perfect GIF response to any text within 30 seconds and so now we call him GIF

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Mikesaidit36 t1_iu7r5em wrote

My theory is that it seems to take a megalomaniacal narcissist like Elon Musk to be able to push through ideas like full self driving (pretty implausible from the start and even now), six kinds of farts available on the touchscreen (totally juvenile), and unnecessarily crazy-fast acceleration (also juvenile but with HUGE appeal to 49 year old juveniles with big piles of money), while at the same time going as far into debt as Tesla did only to emerge as a success. No corporation with a responsible board of directors would ever be able ever do amy of that. Ford will never come out with an electric car with six kinds of farts named after a pet projects of its founder, guaranteed. (Do people know that those different kinds of farts are more or less named after Elon Musk‘s detractors?)

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