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@kiesa possibly an intentional app problem if the keyboard shortcuts were chosen for their location on a QWERTY keyboard (cut, copy, paste being X, C, V is the typical example; that doesn't make sense in Dvorak)

the important christian godhead of butter, caramel, and white cheddar

english people like to ramble it's one of the major tendencies of our language

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by which i mean long, convoluted, arbitrarily nested, and with little grammatical assistance

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const handlerID= request.send().then(
response => process(response)
).then(
processed => getHandler("proper object).handle(processed)
).catch(
context => {
throw new HandleError ({ context })
}
)

is a very English way of saying things

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lots of people say lisp and japanese are sibling languages but i think the same is true of english and javascript

@aescling you say it is a joke but i have seen you legitimately get excited over my web designs so

time to close GitLab on my work laptop and open GitLab on my personal laptop

@aescling i mean it's better than what it was recommending me before so i'm not really complaining

lol i contribute to ONE repository and suddenly GitHub is recommending me things like “Science History Institute Digital Collections”

@monorail i don't think people have negative intent but i think a lot of people have neutral intent and a lot of negative systems are enabled by it

simply not being bad is only good enough in a world which is good by default, which isn't our world

@noelle they probably did it as a joke and extremely regret that decision now

@KitRedgrave @witchfynder_finder something something “the goal, however, is to change it”

@Satsuma my personal stance is that we should just eliminate pronouns

@Satsuma (this is not a genuine proposal, more just me pointing out that this is how Proto-Indo-European happened)

@Satsuma yes, probably this would require reducing the number to maybe three or four

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