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Love how many people were called over to provide expert advice on figuring out why diners couldn't enjoy the lovely outdoor seating without an adult on their nostrils.

Without a what?

Assault, presumably. Pretty soon we may find ourselves introducing autocorrect errors like that on porpoise, to try to show we're not AI.

Did you make a dolphin joke there? My eyes apparently now only read intent.

That's not just a good prediction—it is literally already happening right now!

Certainly!

That won't work for long. I've already seen reddit karma farming bots that introduce typos into repost titles to avoid duplicate detection. It'll be pretty easy write a program that takes a piece of slop text and swaps one word or so in every few hundred with a typo just a small Hamming distance away.

Maybe I should get my eyes checked because I was like I don't see it, looks like what I meant to write to me. It took the other commenters for me to finally see it. Ah yes assault not adult there...

Evidently in the 90s facesitting was a popular pasttime in Palo Alto.

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