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Vonnegut 2.0

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Possibly one of the best articles, sorry, I mean pieces of content, I’ve read for a while…. And it looks like you posted something that actually makes it worthwhile to visit Twit-X.

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Wait a minute here. Are you microwaving the entire casserole each time?! You only reheat (in the oven or on the stove) the portion you're going to eat. In this way ALL subsequent meals are meal 2.0. And honestly, should taste just as good, if not better, than meal 1.0.

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Listen to John Prine! (A good idea, anytime):

Blow up your TV throw away your paper

Go to the country, build you a home

Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches

Try an find Jesus on your own

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I honestly disliked that song less than most Bossa Nova, though it's possible that's because it was only 74 seconds long. Is Facebook's slogan still "Move fast and break things"? It's ridiculous to think a multi-billion dollar company had that as it's slogan. It's almost as dumb as their headquarters' address being 1 Hacker Way. It's not like Pablo Escobar lived at 73 Cocaine Boulevard.

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Hey man, you gotta eat your leftovers.

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I hope we can “scale” our non-compliance against all those Techno-Wizards behind the curtain.

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Always a good read but this one had me alone in my music studio laughing out loud for it's entirety.

Thank you

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Finally, an indication that The Honest Broker does have a sense of humour after all. I was relieved to read it and laugh.

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This was fun to read! Here's a blessing from Kate Bowler that I thought of when I read this and thought I might share in a spirit of appreciate. As it refers to faith, please take what you find helpful or resonate with and leave what doesn't!

A Blessing For Your Best Life Now

My world is spinning on the axis of a single thought: I should be living my best life now.

Lord, other people are living their effortless, joyful, perfect lives. Why aren’t I?

When I scroll social media, I see grinning faces teaching me, selling me,

convincing me down to every atom of my not sufficiently moisturized skin that I should be more.

I could heal myself, budget myself, shop myself whole. I am a project ready to be completed. I am an unfinished checklist.

But that much is true. I am incomplete. And you never promised us a finished life.

So pry my eyes from the Christmas card versions of other people’s lives.

God, give me satisfaction in the trying. Give me joy in the never-quite-there.

Grant me peace in my unsettled heart for my wild mediocrity.

Help me smile back at the truth that no one, not one, knows perfection but you.

And you already looked at this messy creation at the beginning of time

and pronounced it pretty darn good.

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As a “disabled” jazzer ( played jazz reeds and even baroque recorder until I sustained a cervical spinal cord injury four years ago), I eagerly headed to the AI tune generator. I requested a classic jazz tune about living with an SCI, and I wasn’t disappointed! (Though I’d have run the chords differently…). Fun, though!

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Brilliantly delightful. Please write more satire!

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Garbage disposals are my nemesis. Twice I have defeated them only to have them spill their guts through any plumbing orifices available. Soaking kitchen mats, and once even a carpet on some freshly finished floors. Who knew the kitchen drain was attached to the guest toilet and sink drains? To my horror, London plumbers are really expensive. Never at home and always when I travel. So I confess I now have a technology phobia. As a bonefida saboteur my food waste is compost now. And when AI starts to spell correct properly, I will believe in the supremacy of technology again. Till then…

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Re Disney "House of the Future."

Yeah, the future ain't what it used to be . . .

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To be fair, lasagna 2.0 always tastes better than 1.0. Don’t @ me 😂

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The future looks bright , I gotta wear shades 😎

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