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		dylan604 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Discord says 70k users may have had their governme... This makes me hate the Twitter rebrand even more. I'm reading your use of "X" as generic name to be filled in as needed vs the poorly rebranded Musk owned platform. Then again, I could see that platform actually promoting its services to do this very thing.

imglorp 5 months ago | [–]

Oof, I didn't even think about x/twitter... that was a poor choice of variable name! I shall try to eXcrete smarter in the future.

ratelimitsteve 5 months ago | [–]

it's time to bring back metasyntactic variables

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foo

dylan604 5 months ago | [–]

as a fan of Mr. Robot, I like to use evilCorp to be replaced by which ever one is being discussed.

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