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Open Thread
I've quit school again. Today, I bought a California SuperLotto Plus ticket.
01 21 40 42 45 Mega-15
I hereby declare that I will donate all winnings from this ticket in the various future Everett branches to SIAI, except in such branches that I hit the ($1.3*10^7) jackpot, in which case I'll only donate 90%. Of course it is irrational to waste a dollar like this, but I thought it was funny, and having messed up my life so much, I'm too emotionally trashed to care. Does anyone know the past tense of tsuyoku naritai?--don't answer that.
I'd like to call attention to steven's comment: how to create good discussions?
But it's a pretty difficult problem: people disagree in assessing the quality; conventions and personality play a role in ways that are hard to notice or describe, let alone replicate.