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Yep! I guess you could say it was a SUPER BOWL 
PROTO AD! 
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00010.md https://git.tilde.town/dozens/protoadandsuperbowl/raw/branch/master/00010.md Aug 25 11:13:17 2022 (@)(@) {0,0} (~~~~) ./) ) (>vv<) " " \ a guy was looking for a priest to officiate his wedding and narrowed it down to his final two choices. the first one walked in with two beetles and started praying over the bugs. the second one started spraying everybody with holy water from a water gun. Know who he chose?
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He chose the blesser of two weevils 
 
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00001.md https://git.tilde.town/dozens/protoadandsuperbowl/raw/branch/master/00001.md Aug 25 11:13:16 2022 (@)(@) {0,0} (~~~~) ./) ) (>vv<) " " \ ya see, some people go real fast and other people they go real slow yeah that's it doncha know
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yeah that's the real root cause of most 
workplace conflict 
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00011.md https://git.tilde.town/dozens/protoadandsuperbowl/raw/branch/master/00011.md Aug 25 11:13:17 2022 (@)(@) {0,0} (~~~~) ./) ) (>vv<) " " \ So I was down by the capitol and I noticed some kind of protest was happening. I saw a couple people wearing US flags and thought to myself, ew, probably a bunch of treasonous right-wing fundamentalist bastards. Which, you know, is always the first thing you think when you see somebody wearing the US flag. But then I saw somebody holding a "My Body My Choice" sign and thought, aw, it must be some pro-choicers! And I decided to get a little closer to check it out.
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I got close enough to see a bunch of the other 
signs and they were all like, "No Jab! No 
Vaccine!" and that's when I knew I had been 
tricked. It WAS a bunch of treasonous 
right-wing fundamentalist bastards! I said 
"ew" again and turned around and ran away. 
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00005.md https://git.tilde.town/dozens/protoadandsuperbowl/raw/branch/master/00005.md Aug 25 11:13:17 2022 (@)(@) {0,0} (~~~~) ./) ) (>vv<) " " \ Who even ever asked for or wanted an information SUPERHIGHWAY anyway?
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All I want is like a small cute remote 
information HIKING TRAIL somewhere out in the 
woods where I can see some flowers and leaves and 
listen to the birds and stuff. 
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00008.md https://git.tilde.town/dozens/protoadandsuperbowl/raw/branch/master/00008.md Aug 25 11:13:17 2022 (@)(@) {0,0} (~~~~) ./) ) (>vv<) " " \ There was a sense of euphoria while we were in flow, like we were invinsible, but afterwards everything seemed brittle and fragile like it was held together with duct tape and kite string and like it might all come crumbling down if the wind blew in from the wrong direction. And there we were in the aftermath, unsure whether we accomplished our goals, who we hurt in the process, or if there was anything good about it all.
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So anyway that's what we call a "hackathon". The 
tech bros invited me to "do some lines" and at 
this point I can't remember if it was code or 
coke. 
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00009.md https://git.tilde.town/dozens/protoadandsuperbowl/raw/branch/master/00009.md Aug 25 11:13:17 2022 (@)(@) {0,0} (~~~~) ./) ) (>vv<) " " \ So I picked up a book in the middle of this epic fantasy series. It's by this author who I heard does really good sword and sorcery stories, and I'm into that. Anyway the story opens on a tragic, lonely noble lord, last of his line, subject to disfigurement because of the family curse and whatnot. But, get this, it totally takes place in Old Germany during the rise of the Nazi party!
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I was so disoriented that I looked it up, and 
there will eventually be a classic fantasy 
storyline that interweaves with the modern 
nazi storyline. 
 
Which means eventually the hero is literally 
going ride a dragon to Hitler's bunker and punch 
him in the face and if there's one thing this 
world needs more of, it's mother fucking 
dragons beating the shit out of nazis. 
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00002.md https://git.tilde.town/dozens/protoadandsuperbowl/raw/branch/master/00002.md Aug 25 11:13:16 2022 (@)(@) {0,0} (~~~~) ./) ) (>vv<) " " \ ...and that's how a became a YAML engineer.
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To be honest, I'm not sure it's a real job either. 
But they keep giving me YAML and I keep 
ENGINEERING it! 
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00012.md https://git.tilde.town/dozens/protoadandsuperbowl/raw/branch/master/00012.md Aug 25 11:13:17 2022 (@)(@) {0,0} (~~~~) ./) ) (>vv<) " " \ Ed is the standard text editor!
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? 
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00006.md https://git.tilde.town/dozens/protoadandsuperbowl/raw/branch/master/00006.md Aug 25 11:13:17 2022 (@)(@) {0,0} (~~~~) ./) ) (>vv<) " " \ Is there even such a thing as "mainstream" anymore? I mean it used to be the case that everybody watched the same nightly news and listened to the same radio station. And "counterculture" was growing your hair long and listening to rock and roll. Now the duality of mainstream vs. counterculture seems as quaint as the idea that there are only two genders or only two sexes. Kids don't listen to rock & roll to rebel, they listen to soundcloud emo rap, or whatever, and if the niche sound that speaks directly to them doesn't exist, they can invent it and upload it for the world to hear with little more than a cheap laptop.
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At the other end of the LONG TAIL of the internet 
is a metaphorical infosec furry, and because of 
them there are as many small STREAMS and 
countercultures as there are individual 
people. 
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       there should be no such thing
       as billionaires
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00003.md https://git.tilde.town/dozens/protoadandsuperbowl/raw/branch/master/00003.md Aug 25 11:13:16 2022 (@)(@) {0,0} (~~~~) ./) ) (>vv<) " " \ So did you watch the Super Bowl?
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Yeah, me neither. 
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