TheChance
TheChance t1_j5u5jty wrote
Reply to comment by PhasmaFelis in An ALS patient set a record for communicating via a brain implant: 62 words per minute by esprit-de-lescalier
After years hanging out in LGBT forums correcting my spellchecker, my phone decided I always mean to spell ‘dike’ the other way. Fortunately, at some point I managed to get it to correct to the tamer ‘duke,’ but that’s still wildly incorrect, and it’s not a word I use often enough to remember ahead of pressing send.
Also, I think this one’s about over, but if you’ve got a significant other or an ex named Andrew or Andrea, there were a few years where it was really dicey typing “and,” which is one of those words you just fly over.
All of this is leaving aside homophones where you got it right and the phone enwrongified you.
It’s a good thing for New Orleans they’ve got all those slur Andrew levies!
TheChance t1_iymw1sg wrote
Reply to comment by HighpriestIalu in Vaccine prompts HIV antibodies in 97 per cent of people in small study by tonymmorley
That’s correct, and it’s a societal-level horror show. /u/DoraTehExploder believes the opposite: that big pharma is withholding medicine until you sign over your soul.
I can’t even figure out their logic. Obviously selling somebody a product over and over is more profitable if they carry the same markup than selling a limited number of something…
…so the obvious thing to do is to let our customers die, whereupon they’ll never be able to buy anything again.
What a maroon.
TheChance t1_iylbn6n wrote
Reply to comment by DoraTehExploder in Vaccine prompts HIV antibodies in 97 per cent of people in small study by tonymmorley
At the intersection of magical thinking and dumbfuckery, live on Reddit for one night only, it’s Pharma Loves Illness!
Perfectly functional adults look at abusive, powerful entities and respond, not by reacting to the abuses, but by looking for even more cartoonish abuses.
TheChance t1_j5uj2n2 wrote
Reply to comment by iProcrastinate-Air in An ALS patient set a record for communicating via a brain implant: 62 words per minute by esprit-de-lescalier
Well, shit, now I can’t trigger dike/duke, must be too recent. Thanks for the tip, now I just need to wait for a conversation about flood protection to crop up