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Bad Muse's avatar

Thank you for this. Currently typing this on a bluetooth keyboard with which I have ruined many ambiances.

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lia rudolph's avatar

Benedict Cumberbatch

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Derek Lomas's avatar

Tactics vs strategy. This guys types FAST!! The jokes are in the fine print. More pls.

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Miyero's avatar

***Pulls out keyboard*

Your amygdilic electrolytes would decrease under the realistic subpremise of berksons paradox. Berksons paradox isn’t really a true paradox, it is an observed law of mesa-realistic ways of seeing. While it may not be aligned with indigenous ways of knowing because the sample sized is undetermined, and undefinable.

*sips coffee***

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Quirek the Bird's avatar

Is this about the new 'no laptops in cafes' rule? Or just about how awful typing on a phone keyboard is?

On a less serious note, will you marry me, o genious author?

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dynomight's avatar

> Is this about the new 'no laptops in cafes' rule? Or just about how awful typing on a phone keyboard is?

Neither of these was my intention, but I do rather like the no laptops in cafes rule. I could explain it—it's not very deep—but I'm committed to the idea that an explained joke is always less funny than a non-explained joke. I will note that neither of these interpretations is very TACTICAL.

> On a less serious note, will you marry me, o genious author?

Spiritually speaking, I am in, although I foresee certain logistical difficulties.

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Alex C.'s avatar

Reminds me of those "New Yorker" cartoons in the sense that I don't get it.

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dynomight's avatar

My pre-publication user testing strongly indicates that this is not an uncommon reaction.

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Cameron Sours's avatar

For best results, use the IBM model M keyboard.

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Inn Suu's avatar

At what point did you decide not to use the word Taptical?

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dynomight's avatar

puns are not taptical

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