Ms. Anthrope.
Much better. 
“It’s all so brief, isn’t it? Typical human lifespan is almost a hundred years, but it’s barely a second compared to what’s out there. It wouldn’t be so bad if life didn’t take so long to figure out. Seems you just start to get it right and then … it’s over.”
“Doesn’t matter. If we lived two hundred years, we’d still be human.
We’d still make the same mistakes.”
“You’re a pessimist.”
“I am Russian, Doctor. We understand these things.”
Dr. Stephen Franklin Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova, Soul Hunter, Babylon 5
What if……like….the mistakes are the point, maaaan? Did you ever really, like think about mistakes?
No mistakes, only happy accidents!
Flaws inherent in the design are not to be considered defects.
Also planet mercury goes into retrograde so expect an increase in miscommunication and technical mishaps.
Except…
You were wrong!
(I once thought I was wrong, but it turns out I was mistaken).
So what did @Velocity originally want to post about?
Never mind. We aren’t in the pit.
I was going to ask some obscure question about health insurance, but just as I hit the submit button, I found the answer online.
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary…to do something or other
You’d think this would be @Typo_Knig’s kind of thread…
One might say that they made some kind of error in not posting here yet.
steps forward
No, delete my post. I’m Mistakacus.
Almost made a mistake there, eh?
I endorse whatever this thread is about.
It’s a thread about nothing!
“Chin up, some day Dame Fortune may come to your door.”
“She’ll have to knock real hard; her daughter, Miss Fortune, wrecked the doorbell.”
Do vegetarians miss steak?