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by eska 669 days ago
If you anticipate that this will happen when you open task manager, possibly because it has happened before, you start chanting in German “watch me, I’m about to pull a trick 17!” before opening task manager, having ensured that the whole room is paying attention whether you succeed. When people ask how you knew or why it worked you just shrug smugly to hide the fact that you don’t actually now, and let everybody bask in your aura.