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andrew

@andrew@electro.social

Mostly just trying to do other things but constantly end up doing computers

Making grid.electro.social for fun

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An intrusive thought I return to often is how "I want a pony" is the canonical example of an unreasonable request but, like, if you look into it even a little you'll find it's not hard at all to acquire a pony. On raw purchase price a pony is far cheaper than a car and probably not much more than a good ebike. You're gonna have to invest time and money into pony upkeep but, of all the aspirational goals you could set yourself in life "a pony" is one of the more attainable ones

andrew ,
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@saddestrobots @mcc I thought that was the point... "have your cake" does exactly mean "eat your cake". So you can't eat it twice. You can't have it and then eat it. Because you already had it. But now I'm reading the Wikipedia article and there is all this tortured stuff about "have" meaning "possess" and verb order and Ayn Rand and the Unabomber and anarcho-capitalist economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe. It's intolerable.

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