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jfz9580m

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19. I wish some DUer would start an
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 09:40 AM
6 hrs ago

Is she dead yet thread?
I keep trying to shut up, but: 1) I am on Modafinil which works for me but at the cost of making one chattier (my least favorite side effect of a class of drugs I find useful that aside); 2) I am poking at this unwieldy mess of information (I suppose that is the best term) as a solitary human who is too asocial to take cues from people and now follows DU/Coleman Spillde/Yasha Levine/Chris Ketcham/Marina Bolotnikova etc for behavioral cues…

How are people social? I don’t quite get it?
I am sociable to necessary extents in routine contexts. But this is such a hairball..the internet plus ai and agents and yeesh..it is never very clear who is at what level of knowledge of tech and what they are doing with it and what is straightforward. And people have the realities they want to see implemented and I..I am okay with team work in routine ways. But a bunch of ott stuff has totally screwed me over and ..

I feel ostriches are misunderstood..Maybe they just.. identity issues!

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Is he dead yet? [View all] Orrex 8 hrs ago OP
Had an unfortunate mixup... MiHale 8 hrs ago #1
Can't ahem...😀 malaise 8 hrs ago #2
👍... MiHale 8 hrs ago #4
;-{) Windbag Goonch 8 hrs ago #3
Alas, my bottle of bubbly remains unopened. niyad 8 hrs ago #5
I have a dream... surfered 7 hrs ago #6
Excellent. Today would be good. niyad 7 hrs ago #7
We have an opening at 10:45. Bring a shovel. twodogsbarking 7 hrs ago #9
😁 surfered 7 hrs ago #15
Soon... SheltieLover 5 hrs ago #20
How will we know? Will he shut up? Will there be no brain activity? Odd color? Stinky? Sweaty? Inactive? twodogsbarking 7 hrs ago #8
A most excellent question. niyad 7 hrs ago #10
Dear God: anything that rids this world of him will work for me. Thank you for your attention to this matter LymphocyteLover 7 hrs ago #11
God is on the phone. She is calling from Iran. Ruh roh. twodogsbarking 7 hrs ago #12
She is, indeed! niyad 3 hrs ago #29
Smothered by avalanche of proposals from companies offering not to build wind farms offshore surfered 7 hrs ago #13
"Is he Dead Yet? I smell... decaying carcass!" hlthe2b 7 hrs ago #14
OMG MustLoveBeagles 6 hrs ago #16
I wish bdamomma 6 hrs ago #17
Fatal fall from slipping on ICE? SheltieLover 6 hrs ago #18
I wish some DUer would start an jfz9580m 6 hrs ago #19
Will no one stand up to this crazy man? Farmer-Rick 5 hrs ago #21
Not yet, but close. A lot of folks are wishin & hopin. Joinfortmill 5 hrs ago #22
Perhaps he really IS dead ... Wicked Blue 5 hrs ago #23
The way things are going right now, we will die before he will. Aristus 5 hrs ago #24
Celebration! Marcuse 4 hrs ago #25
Charging admission is a concept LetMyPeopleVote 4 hrs ago #26
I want the liquid refreshments concession stand! niyad 3 hrs ago #30
I commend your timely anecdotal analogies on a daily basis, Orrex. yellow dahlia 4 hrs ago #27
Infection from a drunken ear ring punch attempt Torchlight 4 hrs ago #28
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