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Re:What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me by sophrocyne on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @01:00PM (#33884332)
pessimizer writes: > Is this a friend of yours? Because you have more confidence in him than I have with people I know personally. Sounds parasocial.

If only! Given you've tied your identity to pessimism, which I assume implied you see it as a virtue, I think you might be somewhat more inclined to misanthropy than me. And that's ok. :)

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Re:What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me by robocat on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:48PM (#33886815)
> pessimizer

I’m guessing there’s an intentional link with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessary (from Latin Pessarium) as well as the computing term pessimal (same root as pessimism, from French pessimisme, from Latin pessimus “worst”) and optimizer.

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