I’m sad to see that it’s applicable but I’m glad to see that Frank Herbert quote making its rounds.

As in WoW, in real life if you’re going to get hammered having a healer nearby is a good choice.

I’m not really sure what you’re saying in the first part here. Not liking a show’s gimmick is a completely acceptable reason to not like the show. You agreed that it was acceptable to dislike the gimmick but you don’t like people citing the gimmick as the reason they didn’t like the show?

It doesn’t get recorded until it happens, so yes.

This is what my laptop screen looked like after I dropped it.

tract. though there’s a joke in there about calling it a track when you have the runs.

I’m predicting that even more will just go to less regulated, non-US porn sites.

Directions unclear: cannot determine which side goes towards enemy.

lol. Listing company owners is too hard :(

Translating structured logic into spoken language is iffy. (I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself)

The code reads to match OP if stated as: “If and only if the value of ‘a’ equals 1 then set the value of ‘b’ to equal one.” Placing the conditional at the beginning of the sentence maintains the correct dependency.

That’s the “Worf Speed” filter. Common mistake.

Star Fleet on a chicken seat

There still being a crosswalk there is a reasonable excuse, but I think it’s more simple. The less complex the traffic rules are the easier they are to build signage for, learn, and follow. Everyone stops at the stop sign. Plain. Simple. Easy. Safer.

If there’s pre-hours trading and post-hours trading then it’s already 24 hours. Regular people just aren’t rich enough to use it.

That name sounded familiar. This does seem to be the same Alexander Pope that CGPGrey stumbled across and strayed into the, apparently, well documented feud with Thomas Herne.

https://youtu.be/qEV9qoup2mQ?t=531

If it’s chrominum that might explain the announcement that they’re killing chromeOS.

or that they wouldn’t be able to complete one.

This seems like a practicality thing. As did Dare Devil, Toph moves in very precise, high speed ways; as if they weren’t blind at all. Teaching the actor their moves and keeping those motions safe at speed is just easier with a sighted actor.

businesses still have landlines

“Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich.”

Ford stared in disbelief at the crowd who were murmuring appreciatively at this and greedily fingering the wads of leaves with which their track suits were stuffed.

“But we have also,” continued the management consultant, “run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying one ship’s peanut."

Murmurs of alarm came from the crowd. The management consultant waved them down. “So in order to obviate this problem,” he continued, “and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and. . .er, burn down all the forests. I think you’ll all agree that’s a sensible move under the circumstances."

The crowd seemed a little uncertain about this for a second or two until someone pointed out how much this would increase the value of the leaves in their pockets whereupon they let out whoops of delight and gave the management consultant a standing ovation. The accountants among them looked forward to a profitable autumn aloft and it got an appreciative round from the crowd.”

― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe