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Just realized my two favorite movies/stories are identical in all but relatively superficial ways:
  1. Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (1971 furshur)
  2. Ready Player One
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The moral of each is basically: be honest, good, and determined -> reward
The story of each is basically: someone honest, good, and determined is rewarding you their work for being similar
It's the story of finding your soulmentor or something.
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I guess that means we need a parallel plot to Stacker News.
Will https://outer.space also achieve product-market fit in its 1st year? Tune in next month & keep poking @k00b to find out..
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Lol
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994 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 6 Sep 2023
IDEA: Run an evil twin of Stacker News called "Slacker News"... it will only show content that is wasting time. It will encourage people to stop working and pushing, and just slack. It will discourage use of bitcoin.
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BITCOIN
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Looking for a FOSS fdroid or obtanium supported wallet to store Ticketmaster tix on my graphene OS. Any recommendations?
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I don’t have a helpful answer… knowing Ticketmaster, good luck…
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1932 sats \ 12 replies \ @kr 6 Sep 2023
the daily discussion thread is absolutely on fire today, already more comments than the most commented post in site history.
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hyperstackernewsization
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1889 sats \ 8 replies \ @nemo 6 Sep 2023
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152 sats \ 7 replies \ @ek 6 Sep 2023
probably 25-50% is only related to the bug since we discovered it, lol
it's been hours me trying to figure out what triggers it, i may need a drink too now lol
and i think i gave away 30k sats to zap all these comments today, lol
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2341 sats \ 6 replies \ @nemo 6 Sep 2023
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"free" as in "1 sat per post"? lol
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1298 sats \ 2 replies \ @nemo 6 Sep 2023
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 6 Sep 2023
ahh, i see
yeah, that's pretty cool
i wanted to make a post asking what people like the most about SN
but I thought people will just respond "stacking sats"
1777 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 6 Sep 2023
The barista put enough expresso shots in my ice coffee that I'm effectively lobotomized.
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It is quite interesting: today is so crowded, yet yesterday was so quiet.
I wonder what is the difference besides @nemo is back 🧐
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i guess you mean "yesterday was so quiet" at the beginning
it also had 100+ comments, just not before @birdeye wakes up, lol
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@k00b Can we get more than 30 characters for the poll options? I have a poll I want to submit, but each option requires more than 30 characters.
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Pretty idiotic that a person that posts ASCII art of a snail gets top comment every day. Do they get the top comment sat rewards as well? Are the rewards that easily gamed or has comment quality really gone down that much?
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i give sats to the snail because of the consistency to show up
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Buddy, what's the problem? I make an effort to be here early everyday. I don't spam and I keep it respectful. I would never feel bad if you or anyone else got the rewards. I really haven't done anything wrong so I don't understand why the negative comment towards me. No hard feelings, though.
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Don't take it personally. You do you.
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Maybe you should pour salt on the snail
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Unfortunately just spend money... I mean what else can you do? Everything costs at least 3 times more than 3 years ago. Making money is harder than ever. Only online gambling and crypto industry is rising little bit. All other things are just falling.
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I found out a friend of mine died in a car accident yesterday. Feels bad man. Something something time preference. Hug your loved ones people.
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yes, sorry for your loss, hope you are doing okay
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Sorry for your loss
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Very very cool
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Thanks, was too lazy to do this for @orthwyrm here, lol
But why only since May?
And I see, we must have more coments tomorrow to keep the streak going
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gpt was having trouble with the full set of data for whatever reason
I mainly just wanted to convey that recent exponential growth anyway, comments ranged around 10-40 for a long time prior to August from what I glanced at
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Even exponential tech can’t comprehend exponential gainz
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gpt was having trouble with the full set of data for whatever reason
interesting, lol
we could to the same for "sats spent in daily discussion"
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Another day stacking cheap sats to cold storage. An exciting part of this bear market I hope to look back on!
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Day 144 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
__@_'-'
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First there was the laser eyed maxis. Now there's snail club maxis. The philosophy is all there, we both waiting for 100k only difference is one is a snail
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⚡️🐌⚡️
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what did you guys do to the daily lmao
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I didn’t touch it… was the others.
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we were waiting for you! haha
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Will this be a record for total comments in the daily? I seldom see it crack 100, and the day is young.
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what is the @odell prophecy?
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107 comments before i even wake up??
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did we squash it??
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No, it's this one. I tried to reproduce locally but wasn't able to.
Maybe it's related to comments being relatively new. But we serialize everything in the backend (to prevent again draining fund) so I don't think race conditions should be possible 🤔
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lol, now I can't unsee
And SJW probably also not when they read your comment
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lol, 2.59 comments per minute or 23.16 seconds per new comment so far
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test
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ohh, i think i got it @nemo, @carlosfandango
at least i was able to trigger the bug, lol. i wanted to reply to this comment using reply on another page
so it must be related to reply on another page
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but for some reason it doesn't happen on my local machine. i need another comment thread with reply on another page.
how about we use this one? :)
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-10 sats
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-100 sats
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-1000 sats
ok, short pause, don't want to pay 10k sats lol
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i see ... even without using reply on another page?
or maybe it's really if two people use reply on another page at the same time?
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nah, you didn't. another data point
to which comment did you want to reply?
i think i'll just do some static code analysis now, lol
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So it comes up at the bottom of the thread ‘reply on another page’… so I click that and enter this comment.
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I just tried the same but it worked for me
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Thank you (but not commenting)
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 6 Sep 2023
i think we're already past the event horizon
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lol, and I was confused about the
(no commenting)
but that makes sense!
Very interesting bug indeed ... will reproduce today and fix. Maybe we can get a "emergency release" out this week
/cc @k00b
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lol, I think I got a slight taste of the @k00b experience
I just looked at my phone and there are too many notifications
I might need to restart it to clear all of them, lol :)
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@carlosfandango replied on a new page….
This is where all the trouble started as I recall….
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Hang on a minute. The link I clicked that came up in my notifications had brought me here (the new page).
I feel like Dr Who walked into a festival toilet thinking it was his tardis and it’s brought him back to where he went in.
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wait, so you can consistently reproduce it since it happens every time do you? lol
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So i think there are two issues here; not placing comments in the right section of the posts and it’s producing new pages when comments are ‘full’ (usually around 10 replies in)
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And when I look back at the main thread it shows your comment (not mine) and says; ‘reply on another page’
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not sure I understand. To which comment did you try to reply?
And what do you mean with
it shows your comment (not mine)
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Thanks for the detailed description! So it basically worked for me but not for you for some reason.
Are you running this through a mobile device or computer based with a mobile emulator? As this could be a mobile issue rather than computer.
Good point, but it happened to me using a computer. The backend also shouldn't care what device you're using. Since this seems to be a backend bug.
edit (sorry, lol): maybe it's because we both were trying to reply to the same comment using reply on another page
And I commented first and you commented after me
Can't confirm now since I'm on my way to somewhere but maybe that's indeed how to reproduce it :)
I'll send you some extra sats in that case
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You are welcome. One team - one dream.
That's the spirit! But I would write it the other way around, lol: One dream - one team :)
I was only wondering as the replies to posts get very compressed to the right hand side of my screen around 9/10 comments in. I only use SN on a mobile.
Yeah, noticed the same. You'd have to click on the timestamp of a comment to make it the root to fix that.
Not sure if there's a better way
this is getting out of hand, lol
we already have 67% of the comments from yesterday
and it's only been 31 minutes, lol
if we keep this pace, there will be 3456 comments until the next daily discussion
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Really? Though it might be more. And I don’t even comment that much.
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1469 sats \ 17 replies \ @ek 6 Sep 2023
let's blame @orthwyrm because of this comment, lol
edit: or maybe bot blame @orthwyrm
depending on the amount of top level cowboy comments, the snail has to check a lot of comments to find the fastest cowboy, lol
edit 2: ah no, it can just sort by recent, lol
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Can we stop the editing. Making me look like even more of a muppet!
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sorry, had to edit my comment again because there was a typo :)
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That was more than a typo edit…. Lol
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I don’t think that’s the issue - because no one would comment past the first post would they? It’s just fun to spend time with similarly minded people
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i don't understand what you mean, my mind is already spinning, lol
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Did I say similarly? I must have meant simple minded…
…(just joking)
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why can you and @carlosfandango consistently trigger the bug but not me? lol
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and btw, "architects" reminds me about the alien saga
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I just divided 62 comments by 23 minutes and 23 minutes by 62 comments
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4 if those are all the same 2 eggs
6 if we take the present tense seriously
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You're first answer is correct. You have 4 eggs left after you ate the 2 eggs.
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I also noticed the amount of comments in the thread need to be even for a reverse thread.
So it must be like this:
A > B > A > B
not A > B > A > B > A
And this thread is already broken, since I replied twice to a comment of yours, lol
edit: wait ... I am dumb.
A > B > A > B > A
would work but not
A > B > A > B
since you can mirror the above but not the bottom one. Or B has to write what A has written
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so many ideas: maybe there should be a bounty for the best daily comment
or maybe not, idk, lol
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You can start your target practice on this comment ;)
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ahh, you destroyed my attempt of starting a reverse thread haha
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okay, i see, we could keep commenting here until the next daily discussion
I have to actually continue with my life now :)
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i'll zap the one who has less zaps :) now you need to zap each other
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No one zap this comment. I'm testing something new out.
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what were you testing btw?
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Lol. Nothing. I was using reverse psychology on your comment above. I guess @nemo and I won because we got the least amount of zaps :)
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so many ideas: maybe there should be a bounty for the best daily comment
or maybe not, idk, lol
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Too many comments to zap here
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Aaaaah, it's still 11:59 on my clock!
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Lol. Better change the time on that clock.
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It's the clock on my computer, it should be synchronized using NTP
Maybe SN has to provide their own NTP server to make it a fair game, lol :)
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The time should sync automatically if you're linked to the internet.
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Well, that's the thing: I was linked to the internet the whole time.
I think there is really some difference between SN time and my time.
Since I sometimes see comments posted in the future, lol:
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I am wondering the same thing. I think I am around 7s out.
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Ok, to be fair, I think NTP was indeed not enabled on my computer.
I forgot it's not installed by default on Arch Linux
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Lol. What's the price of Bitcoin in the future?
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You have to tell me, person from the future :)
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Lmao. Shit you're right. I'm from the future. Bitcoin price right now: $25740
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Could be better, to be honest.
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Lol. Yes, Bitcoin fixes the time.
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maybe the daily discussion should be based on the timechain? So every 144 blocks, a daily discussion thread is posted? :)
Not sure if that would be really awesome or really bad, lol
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That would be too unpredictable. The predictable nature of the daily discussion thread makes it fun and exciting.
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Shouldn't be too unpredictable
And I thought perhaps it's more exciting to look at mempool.space until the block is found which should get more and more likely as time passes
But yeah, not sure about the idea :) You have a point!
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So every 144 posts, a new daily discussion appears? lol
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Beware the Jabberwock
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The jaws that bite, the claws that scratch…
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What's a Jabberwock?
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A foul, loathsome creature
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Sounds scary. I hope I never have to see a Jabberwock in person.
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It’s gone now.. ‘The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.’
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What a relief!
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Mr Snail?
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Lol. Almost had me.
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Next time…..
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Definitely.
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Keeping my longest cowboy streak going until __@_'-' reaches its destination: 18
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__@_'-'
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Thank you very much. I was feeling a bit down today but this thread got me feeling better and now you made my day even way better. I appreciate you and everyone in this thread.
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Life can be hard sometimes, but the snail marches on. I'm glad you are feeling better!
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That's true. __@_'-' don't quit.
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It's @orthwyrm initiative to reward the fastest gun slinger in the SN wild west. Good luck for tomorrow buddy.
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1298 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 6 Sep 2023
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121 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 6 Sep 2023
I don't think it will be too hard. We had similar requests for other things and afaik, we implemented all of them
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And I see @bitcointerest was first in…. Again lol
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Lol. I'm very competitive buddy. You almost had me, though.
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I am wondering if there is a VIP area or something…
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It’s a good example of FIAT mentality - there must always a better VIP that I’m not yet in. Need to shake myself out of that! Dirty fiat thinking.
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I'm trying to close the door but you have your foot in the door :)
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Lol. You changed your comment after I made mine. Now I look like a crazy person saying random stuff :(
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I think you did get the idea of reverse threads, @nemo :)
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Lol. Now you know how I feel.
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1741 sats \ 2 replies \ @nemo 6 Sep 2023
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interesting, this might also be what I noticed in our other discussion where I was surprised that my comment ended up somewhere else
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