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17 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
"And for the record, Your Honor, I was tucking in my shirt."
When Rudy Giuliani enters a courtroom, do you think everybody present hears "Entry of the Gladiators" in their head, or do some people get "Saber Dance" or "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down"?
...although I guess since his arrival basically signals that the circus has caught fire, "Stars and Stripes Forever" would be the most appropriate musical selection.
The reason that the universe will never give me god-like power over reality is that I would make it so that every time Rudy Giuliani is speaking, he hears circus music drowning out his words. The louder he speaks, the louder it would get. No one else would hear it.
Yeah, maybe if there's a minor key cover of Yakety Sax. Like a slow creepy children's music box version.

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19 Nov
My grandmother actually did have dementia around the time that my social transition extended to me being out around family and for a while I consciously "dialed things back" around her, as much to make things easier for myself as her or anyone else.

Buuut then there came a holiday where I was at my parents' house and not really expecting an extended family visit and she and some of my aunts showed up anyway.
I don't know what, if anything, had been told to her before or was explained later, but it didn't really come up. She just rolled with it, which is the best case scenario for anyone, honestly.
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17 Nov
My basic impression from the live tweets is that Rudy Giuliani has lost sight of the difference between "arguing to a crowd of Fox News fans and redditors" and "arguing before a judge."
Again, Rudy doesn't know how to argue in front of a judge so he's falling back on how he would argue with a TV personality.

I am no Nate Silver but I would give it at least 1 in 20 odds that Rudy tells the judge, "No, you're out of order. THIS WHOLE SYSTEM IS OUT OF ORDER!" before this is all over.
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17 Nov
Related to the Republican war on the mail: one of my favorite parts of Discotrek's far-future-future worldbuilding is how in the absence of a quadrant-spanning superpower like the Federation, the biggest interstellar infrastructure is a criminal cartel of cutthroat couriers.
In a world that is no longer in an sense post-scarcity because the magic phlebotinum that made everything work is suddenly scarcer and less trustworthy, people who have the means to deliver the goods and services others need can command a premium price and make their own laws.
But they literally only go places it's profitable for them to go; every transaction is a bottom-line transaction and each participant in the transaction is looking for a way to gain an edge.
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17 Nov
I got a memory foam seat cushion because the support struts under the padding of my office chair have been sagging and one of them broke, and it came as a set of two so I put the other one on Tommy's chair.

She didn't trust it until I spread her blanket over it.
Tommy's chair is exactly like my chair except I haven't been sitting on for 8-ish hours a day for several years so it's in considerably better shape; sometimes I think about swapping them but she's so good about sitting in her chair and not mine, I don't want to mess that up.
I'd like to just replace these chairs eventually (they were hand-me-downs from my parents moving, so they may be plural decades old at this point) but don't want to deal with the task of disposing of them.
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17 Nov
Do you ever stop and think about if your cat understands their own name as an identity or just associates it with positive interactions involving you?

Like, "Oh, that's the sound they make when they want to interact with me. Yay!"
I'm kind of dubious that cats or most animals have the level of complex reasoning to understand a name, to relate a label to an identity, buuut I also think the bar for self-awareness is lower than a lot of scientists place it.
The thing that complicates it in favor of an association with interactions is that cats (and most animals) don't have the same structures in their brain re: language that we do. They can learn to recognize and respond to words, but probably not in the same way that we do.
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17 Nov
I 100% can't relate to the use case/feeling they're describing here.
People who think about tweeting something and then don't.

I understand the appeal of self-destructing tweets; I'm not asking about that and don't need it explained to me. I'm talking about the use case described in Twitter's tweet, where you think about tweeting something and don't.

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