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So regarding this Mastodon syndrome where every post leads to people pointedly informing you how your post should've been better in some marginal way, I think of what Jorge Luis Borges said. "Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.".
Or as they say in France, you just missed an excellent opportunity to say nothing. "Ils ont ratΓ© une excellente occasion de se taire." - supposedly Jacques Chirac.
those are great. Similar is Dennis Ritchie's comment on X: sometimes when you fill a vacuum it still sucks.

@rsalz oneliner from FidoNet (around '91):

"Gravity doesn't exists: Earth sucks."

@rsalz 2:370/15 reporting, sir!

But we mainly used static origins and taglines ("... tagline") instead, which was random (occasionally manually) picked from a file.

#fidonet πŸ˜€

... Everyone's useful, if for not else, then as a deterrent.
--- GoldED/2 2.42
* Origin: LifeForce WHQ - The Verbose Madness (2:370/15)

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