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Placebo Blocker

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They work even better if you take them with our experimental placebo booster, which I keep in the same bottle.
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Courtney
3490 days ago
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The mechanism behind the placebo effect is called "the human mind is really fucking powerful sometimes".
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jtr
3490 days ago
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Lol.
jlvanderzwan
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3493 days ago
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They work even better if you take them with our experimental placebo booster, which I keep in the same bottle.

Christians In U.S. On Decline As Number Of 'Nones' Grows, Survey Finds

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The Pew Research Center survey found the number of Americans who describe themselves as Christian dropped almost 8 percentage points over a seven-year period.

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Venus

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The sudden introduction of Venusian flowers led to an explosive growth of unusual Earth pollinators, which became known as the "butterfly effect."
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mrobold
3507 days ago
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Did they have the same Political Science professor I did last semester?
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Michdevilish
3509 days ago
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the trulips of Venus
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NielsRak
3510 days ago
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Which also explains why we're so bloody tall. Evolved under lower gravity.

Just don't ask what the greenhouse-spaceships use as fuel, you'll find out soon enough.
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The sudden introduction of Venusian flowers led to an explosive growth of unusual Earth pollinators, which became known as the "butterfly effect."
JayM
3510 days ago
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Heh. :)
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Typical Morning Routine

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Hang on, I've heard this problem. We need to pour water into the duct until the phone floats up and ... wait, phones sink in water. Mercury. We need a vat of mercury to pour down the vent. That will definitely make this situation better and not worse.
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dukeofwulf
3512 days ago
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Ah, vents in the floor. Always a great idea.
Brstrk
3512 days ago
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Thankfully this would never happen to me. All I have to do is unplug the charger and let the juice go away. 5 minutes is not a long time.
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3512 days ago
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Hang on, I've heard this problem. We need to pour water into the duct until the phone floats up and ... wait, phones sink in water. Mercury. We need a vat of mercury to pour down the vent. That will definitely make this situation better and not worse.

Code Quality

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I honestly didn't think you could even USE emoji in variable names. Or that there were so many different crying ones.
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jimwise
3523 days ago
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tee-hee, the Ikea one.
mburch42
3524 days ago
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We have some people who write code like this.
jlvanderzwan
3524 days ago
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discostar101
3524 days ago
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First order of business in the morning: check if gcc accepts emoji variable names
bakablur
3524 days ago
See -fextended-identifiers, but that is \UXXXXXXXX, not utf-8. 🙁
mikedanger
3524 days ago
IIRC you can actually use them in Swift
bakablur
3524 days ago
Survey says...yes: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Unicode_variable_names#Swift
bakablur
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use utf8;
use Encode;
$_ = encode_utf8(chr(0x263a));
$щಥДಥщ = pack("c*",0x6c,0154);
$ಢ_ಢ = "\157";
$ಢ_ಥ = "H";
$ಥ_ಥ = chr(101);
print $ಢ_ಥ.$ಥ_ಥ."$щಥДಥщ@{[$ಢ_ಢ]}";
print;
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I honestly didn't think you could even USE emoji in variable names. Or that there were so many different crying ones.

Mew2King's opinion on Mewtwo so far

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Mew2King's opinion on Mewtwo so far submitted by whatthefuboom
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