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Ha haaaaa. You got me for a minute there.
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I believe the haha is a reaction to the second-to-last bullet point.
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- The cartoon character Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes, urinating on a sign that reads, “ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.”
OK, slow on the uptake. Got it…
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I usually skim-read too. 
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Oh, goddamnit! That was about to be the best thing I’d heard all day. I guess “Biden killed the SOTU” will have to do.
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This is lovely! The waveforms are so pretty and give it kind of a retro-'70s decor look.
I can’t really get a sense of that ASL symbol in the middle, though. It kind of just looks like a starburst or a sphincter.
Here’s the sign, if anyone else is interested:
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Which is of course where the 21cm unit of measurement on the Pioneer probe plaques came from.
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