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  • Jun 26, 2026, 10:01 PM

    @mdhughes "...map of North America showing the location of every existing Starbucks. Lines drawn between the various stores form geometric patterns across the U.S., including five-pointed stars, Masonic symbols, and, in the Seattle area, the image of a gigantic Oroborous serpent wrapped around an inverted ziggurat."

    I've begged The Onion to introduce me to their dealer. I just get quaint grins.

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  • Jun 26, 2026, 10:04 PM

    @elfin I haven't encountered anyone using MySQL for several years - from my seat MariaDb has utterly replaced MySQL.

    I trust Oracle about as far as I can throw its buildings in Redwood Shores.

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  • Jun 26, 2026, 10:19 PM

    @petrillic @elfin How much do you think one would need? Those buildings are heavy, but they are also built on bay mud subject to liquefaction.

    (I know this because I used to live in Redwood Shores before the Oracle stuff replaced Africa USA/Marine World - our condo was designed to "float" on the liquefied mud that that area would turn into after a big earthquake.)

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  • Jun 26, 2026, 11:05 PM

    @elfin @petrillic For Oracle my mental image is of a large demonic form arising from the bay muck, encased in sulfurous flames and smoke; reaching a flaming tentacle into the executive offices to grab everyone it finds there and carry them into the daemon's bottomless mouth. And then each of the buildings, and everything within, would slightly shudder and begin a slow descent into the muck. And across the world every Oracle database would stop and display this message: 'Gone, Gone Forever"

    More Biblical, less fissionable.

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  • Jun 26, 2026, 10:28 PM

    @petrillic @karlauerbach I used to be able to see them from the bedroom balcony of my house on the other side of El Camino ...

    "Enough TNT" == Kilotons ... in which case, why use TNT? For just 11Kg we could permanently remodel that side of town.

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