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If that doesn’t help, then try all this contortionist stuff next.

Thiel situation requires a hell of a lot of contortionist thinking or just blind hatred for rich people.

When I look at Angular, it feels like one of those contortionist boxes at a magic show. This is why I ended up building Joystick [2].

If you feel like a contortionist, you're probably doing it wrong - think Cirque du Soleil acrobat instead.

-- AKA Ruby is flexible enough that you need DI like a contortionist needs a backscratcher.

Trying to hold control with my pinky and twist around to hit various key combos always felt more like a contortionist act to me.

I wish "paste without formatting" was the default, and you had to use the contortionist keyboard shortcut to include formatting.

That's a kind of unnecessary contortionist perspective don't you think? vs: Someone is selling $27M in cocaine, but wants to pay taxes on and spend the $27M as legitimate money.

I feel like I'm doing contortionist exercises with my fingers, and my wrists start aching very quickly. Going back to dvorak after that is like switching to the "walk" section of a walk/run interval training session.

It’s pretty easy for most people to grasp why a contortionist’s skill or someone skilled with sewing has a rare and unique talent. it’s a lot easier to understand what went into it and the precision and the result is very apparent.

The level of bending my argument is worthy of a contortionist. Lets keep the alpha bulleting A. Global airline traffic has approximately tripled in the last couple of decades[1], so even if you're arguing that someone should have known when they moved there it's not the same amount of noise as when they moved in.

The word "flexibility" is not owned by contortionists. Range of motion is still very important, and while yoga can and does tend to the contortionist end of the spectrum, tai chi does not, and yet it still cares quite a bit about flexibility, as an antonym to tightness/stiffness.

I'm always amused by the contortionist double-speak of Facebook communications. They put so much effort into distancing themselves from Libra when they launched it, but now they have a chance to take some credit for the work behind it, all of a sudden it's a kinda-sorta Facebook project.

I'm curious to see how you normally hold your phone with one hand now, I'm figuring you as some sort of contortionist, or one of those guys that can cut a deck of cards in half with just one hand. I personally love this gesture, and I use it all the time, especially when it's too cold outside and I'm using my phone with one hand, with the other one in my pocket instead.

It's contortionist and wasteful and one of the many reasons why mainstream web apps are one big celebration of bloat on a boat. The neophyte programmers who have turned into expert Modern JS programmers are always recommending arrow functions like this because they've never actually looked at the event listener interface.

Having to hunt through the source to identify what actually happened through some contortionist `error: thing went wrong: subsystem died: api client failed: gcloud client: cache error: filesystem error: file not found: tmp. VRVcBX1j` with no line numbers or function names, and various random components of the error string coming from either third-party libraries or the golang standard library?

* human jestures * mind-computer interface * requires an advance degree in coreography & contortionist flexibility to use?

</rhetorical question> It doesn't matter which one is used, so long as the application sticks to the platform conventions, and for the actions that don't have platform conventions, picks bindings that don't need you to be a finger contortionist. It doesn't matter if the 'ok' button is to the left or right of the cancel button, but if a UI designer swaps them around relative to what the platform normally does, he's just designed the UI poorly.

> Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan and co-author of one of the new papers, said in an email that she agreed with Worobey: “There is no alternative explanation that fits the facts, so anyone trying to come up with one will have to become adept at willful ignorance, a logical contortionist, or simply a fabulist.”