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    FairySlayer got a reaction from GeorgeGlass in What I say: "Hekapoo" (the name of a character from Star Vs. the Forces of Evil). Wha   
    Your phone’s predictive algorithm is hella shit
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    FairySlayer reacted to Desiderius Price in My phone now has a bilingual mode, which means that it will do predictive typing in S   
    I try to keep my perviness to a separate profile on my browser, always private mode with auto-clear on exit.  Mostly works.
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    FairySlayer got a reaction from GeorgeGlass in Last night, I was adding "heavy cream" to my grocery list, and the two words my phone   
    If you were British and were adding “double cream” it would have been even wose.
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    FairySlayer reacted to Desiderius Price in Last night, I was adding "heavy cream" to my grocery list, and the two words my phone   
    “Phone, where have you been?  Dare I want to know?”
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    FairySlayer got a reaction from GeorgeGlass in I know it’s automated and generic, but I still like the birthday cake Bing made me.   
    Ooh! Congratulations on moving one year closer to becoming a curmudgeon like me. BTW I think that neon cake looks hella cool (and much better than the one I made for someone when I was drawing). Here’s to another great year! 
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    FairySlayer got a reaction from BronxWench in I know it’s automated and generic, but I still like the birthday cake Bing made me.   
    Ooh! Congratulations on moving one year closer to becoming a curmudgeon like me. BTW I think that neon cake looks hella cool (and much better than the one I made for someone when I was drawing). Here’s to another great year! 
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    FairySlayer got a reaction from GeorgeGlass in I think my phone is in a gloomy mood. I was texting my wife about our anniversary, an   
    Happy anniversary! The best gift would be to write a fanfic of her OCs and do a dramatic reading by the fireplace after a few glasses of wine. Meanwhile, when she was texting you back her phone probably suggested anal.
    I always found autocomplete infuriating because the various words sliding around derail my train of thought while rarely showing the word I wanted in the first place. Besides, I can type faster than it can suggest words anyway.
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    FairySlayer reacted to Desiderius Price in I think my phone is in a gloomy mood. I was texting my wife about our anniversary, an   
    I find auto-suggest to be infuriating when I’m using a blu-tooth keyboard.  If a new text message shows up, auto-suggest triggers, it’ll auto-send the first thing on the list!  In the end, I had to disable auto-suggest/correct.
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    FairySlayer got a reaction from BronxWench in I think my phone is in a gloomy mood. I was texting my wife about our anniversary, an   
    Happy anniversary! The best gift would be to write a fanfic of her OCs and do a dramatic reading by the fireplace after a few glasses of wine. Meanwhile, when she was texting you back her phone probably suggested anal.
    I always found autocomplete infuriating because the various words sliding around derail my train of thought while rarely showing the word I wanted in the first place. Besides, I can type faster than it can suggest words anyway.
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    FairySlayer got a reaction from Desiderius Price in I think my phone is in a gloomy mood. I was texting my wife about our anniversary, an   
    Happy anniversary! The best gift would be to write a fanfic of her OCs and do a dramatic reading by the fireplace after a few glasses of wine. Meanwhile, when she was texting you back her phone probably suggested anal.
    I always found autocomplete infuriating because the various words sliding around derail my train of thought while rarely showing the word I wanted in the first place. Besides, I can type faster than it can suggest words anyway.
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    FairySlayer reacted to GeorgeGlass in I don’t really get dystopian scifi. Isn’t the real world bad enough? Or is the idea t   
    That’s a really good point, @Desiderius Price.
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    FairySlayer reacted to InvidiaRed in I don’t really get dystopian scifi. Isn’t the real world bad enough? Or is the idea t   
    Some people find it cathartic to know worlds can be worse or else have characters strive to at least make it brighter if only by candlelight.
    You could also successfully argue any utopia by definition is also dystopian by its very nature. Collectivism is currently in vogue. While the individual is to be abhorred,  Its all so very strange.
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    FairySlayer reacted to Desiderius Price in I don’t really get dystopian scifi. Isn’t the real world bad enough? Or is the idea t   
    It can be useful for critically examining a particular aspect of today’s society too, by making it the predominant theme of the dystopia.  For instance, my original fiction stories put evangelical Christianity on steroids, made the society a tad more conservative, and examine the possible results.  (ie, do we want to live in a society that puts the Christian Cross onto the USA’s flag?)
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    FairySlayer got a reaction from GeorgeGlass in I don’t really get dystopian scifi. Isn’t the real world bad enough? Or is the idea t   
    Definitely, contemporary dystopian fiction doesn't have any scare value: “It's going to be society exactly as messed up as it is today — but on a train!” It almost sounds like a parody, but maybe they're trying to simplify what they think the root causes or possible solutions are… or just take random guesses at how it can always get even worse.
    (Yesterday I was talking with someone about They Live! and how boring the first half of the movie is because it's indistinguishable from most major U.S. cities these days.)
    The past decades have been even more bizarre than fiction. Imagine if George Orwell saw that people are happy to pay for their own tracking devices and even more eager to share all their most-intimate thoughts and details with all the world’s corporations and governments.
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    FairySlayer got a reaction from BronxWench in I don’t really get dystopian scifi. Isn’t the real world bad enough? Or is the idea t   
    Definitely, contemporary dystopian fiction doesn't have any scare value: “It's going to be society exactly as messed up as it is today — but on a train!” It almost sounds like a parody, but maybe they're trying to simplify what they think the root causes or possible solutions are… or just take random guesses at how it can always get even worse.
    (Yesterday I was talking with someone about They Live! and how boring the first half of the movie is because it's indistinguishable from most major U.S. cities these days.)
    The past decades have been even more bizarre than fiction. Imagine if George Orwell saw that people are happy to pay for their own tracking devices and even more eager to share all their most-intimate thoughts and details with all the world’s corporations and governments.
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    FairySlayer reacted to InvidiaRed in I’ll admit it – I’m transmogriphobic. Shapeshifters give me the willies. I know, I kn   
    So we know @GeorgeGlass got replaced then. Okay
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    FairySlayer reacted to GeorgeGlass in I honestly don’t see Trump hanging out with this group.   
    Ah, right, I’d forgotten that Nixon managed to quit before the House could impeach him. That’s an even better argument for him being a better president than Trump. Frankly, if I had to choose between the two, I’d take Nixon in a heartbeat. But he’d have to bring Gerald Ford along, not Spiro Agnew (who was all too Trump-like himself).
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    FairySlayer reacted to JayDee in I honestly don’t see Trump hanging out with this group.   
    Richard Nixon's Head : “Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place! “
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    FairySlayer got a reaction from GeorgeGlass in I honestly don’t see Trump hanging out with this group.   
    Actually Nixon had just enough shame and/or intelligence to resign before the debate for his impeachment began. The only other U.S. presidents to actually be impeached were Johnson and Clinton (and there have been a bunch of judges, a senator and a cabinet member). I guess Trump really wanted to be able to say that he was the most-impeached person ever. Winning?
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    FairySlayer got a reaction from JayDee in I honestly don’t see Trump hanging out with this group.   
    Actually Nixon had just enough shame and/or intelligence to resign before the debate for his impeachment began. The only other U.S. presidents to actually be impeached were Johnson and Clinton (and there have been a bunch of judges, a senator and a cabinet member). I guess Trump really wanted to be able to say that he was the most-impeached person ever. Winning?
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