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And free on PlayStation at the time, but sony thought it was so good they'd copy it

Key being some words

Both have evolved, so it's unsurprising that if you pick and choose your words American English is more similar to 17c English

Iirc though the most similar are west country and a few accents from the southern states in the US, but they've evolved a lot too so they're not most similar in every way

Saved 67% (the content)

Kept 33% (the filler)

BBC historically have shown bias based on what they do and don't report on, however what they do report on is generally a gold standard for neutrality

People I know who work in consulting have said they charge an outrageous amount of money to speak to factory line workers and say what they've said to the factory managers because the managers are too up themselves to do it

At least there's no Corsica anymore (Sardinia but Fr*nch 🤢)

Early modern English has it so it tracks (four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie)

Let's dig a very wide canal connecting the Dead Sea, Red Sea & Sea of Galilee to the Mediterranean... Maybe about 250 miles wide would do it

My man if you think the US government don't already know (or at a minimum could easily find out) your name, age, address & where you work if you're not a goat farming hermit in Tibet or something then I have bad news for you

Many places including Japan allow foreigners to register and bring a reasonable supply (3 months or so?) of most drugs that are illegal there but legal in their home country with a valid prescription (most of Europe and North America, Japan & Singapore all do), and the places that don't let you register them to bring them legally often let you bribe your way out even if you are discovered with them (eg Uzbekistan/Uganda/whatever)

Boredom buster/subway surfer on the screen while technical explanations are being given and headlines/weather/ads/whatever else being on the screen during the news being the same thing I think?

Not if you forget how to talk also

I mean Azerbaijan have invaded Armenia proper in the past in skirmishes, but Armenia also invaded Azerbaijan and gained territory from it... They've also both committed genocide against each other, with the region in the news recently for Armenians being expelled/killed/leaving following Azerbaijan recapturing it only being majority Armenian due to the Azeris being expelled/killed/leaving in the 90s...

In reality it's a situation very similar to Israel/Palestine where regardless of how it started/what the "original" status of the land was, both sides are so overwhelmingly awful in their actions that there's no good guy, but of the four places mentioned only Palestine (Hamas really) has such a disdain for all people, even their own, that they stand out as worse than the others to me

It makes sense for Microsoft to support Linux though...

They tried their hardest to kill Linux under Steve Ballmer but now they're moving (or in reality have moved) to a model where Xbox and cloud are their main income-generating industries. The former is unrelated to Windows/Linux and the latter is frankly more dependant on Linux than it is on Windows - Microsoft have been supportive of Linux through Azure for years now and it doesn't exactly make sense for them to be developing two different operating systems, so it's not far fetched to imagine they'll drop DOS NT as a backend for windows entirely in the future and move to a Linux backend, with Windows just being a closed source DM with tracking etc added on.

This covers embrace & extend, but I don't think the extinguish part makes sense - sure they may add features the FOSS community disagree with, but at worst we're in a similar position to where we are now with things being released separately for Linux and Windows

The celts were actually just so good at genocide that they fully displaced the people before them in most places they live now...

Trying to find the "original owners" of anything is stupid as history doesn't go back that far, so as you say we just need to look at current residents

Issue is, currently Jews are being displaced from their homes to Israel and Palestinians are being displaced by them, so there's underlying issues that need to be solved first

Knew is a strong word

The norse found it but 500 years is a crazy long time, and they didn't know it wasn't just a series of arctic islands

Ok, I'll be sure to use my automatic mechanical watch to check my decent speed and heart rate on my ski trip... Oh wait...

Personally I have a Garmin Fenix for the 3 week battery life but let's not pretend that a mechanical watch and a smartwatch fill even close to the same market segment... It's like telling someone who dropped 3k on a mountain bike to buy a car instead as it's faster on the highway: ok, but not comparable and not relevant

Shellfish already beat us too it!!!

They've been enacting a conspiracy to release billions of tons of a metal so hazardous it explodes on contact with water into our oceans, and they've been at it for millions of years with nobody to stop them

Yeah it wouldn't be comparable to the genocides of Jews, Armenians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs etc. where it was mass extermination, but putting (almost) everyone from a country/culture in reeducation camps like the US did with the Japanese or China are with Uyghurs is still cultural genocide, no matter how careful you are about it or how noble the cause.

The fact that the scientists the US removed and most of the population no longer showed support for Nazism shows that the majority of problem people were the leaders and politicians, and people working for them or supporting them because they had few other options were just doing what they had to do to get by, just like how any class traitor (repo person, police etc.) isn't doing something admirable and in an ideal world they'd be doing something else for a less evil boss, but at the end of the day they have to live with the way society works.