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The “i” as a plural is only for words taken straight from Latin.

Sure, but we use it. We adopted those words without altering that form. You said we don't use it in English, full stop, so I gave 13 counterexamples.

I don’t place any value on youtube videos made by people speaking outside their expertise.

I don't think my eyes can roll any harder.

Sure we do, on occasion anyway. Cacti, fungi, alumni, syllabi, loci, foci, radii, moduli, stimuli, uteri, papyri, nuclei, termini.

Language isn't about being "correct", as there's no truly objective standard. Rather, it's about being understood. But I guess you didn't watch that video.

Yeah but we're using English which doesn't follow Greek spelling rules.

Also, this.

Yes

Many octopodes can change the color and pattern of their skin at will.

Our clothing and tattoos are but crude facsimiles of their capabilities. Cephalopods have no need of such frivolities.

I really love URLCheck, available on F-Droid. It intercepts URL requests, gives you some info, and prompts you to choose a browser whenever you click a link from another app.

Maybe? I'm not a lawyer, I've just worked with some of them. For clients at least, my understanding is that venue and audience can matter. But you could be right regarding the attorneys themselves.

I mean, did they say it in a court (or a brief), or just to a news reporter? I feel like "allege" could be correct if it's not an official record.

Give me alchemy, give me wizardry

Give me sorcery, thermatology

Electricity, magic if you please

Master all of these, bring him to his knees

I master five magics

-- Megadeth, Five Magics

The ones put up by my region's park system usually have 4 sides and are even better.

Each side is typically like:

• Trail map
• Park/trail rules and contact info
• Local flora and fauna info
• Local ecology info and history

What are you talking about? He asked Bill about getting bitten in Groundhog Day and the strikes at the end of Kingpin, and every fan already knows those stories are true. That's like the lowest hanging fruit possible.

Should I have said Stripes or Quick Change or What About Bob instead? Those films just aren't as good.

Aw, don't say it like that. He's younger than my dad.

I wanted this to be so much longer! They didn't even talk about Ghostbusters or Lost in Translation. Still pretty great though.

And bringing additional people with them!

Haha..ha.. ha

(Me, over 40 in the same sitch)

If you want to give KDE a shot, you don't need to buy a Deck. Just grab a live installer image from a Linux distro you like, tons of them let you boot and try it out from RAM without actually installing to your hard disk.

I'm pretty UI agnostic (many years with Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, Unity, a few with xfce, and a bit with Cinnamon). I almost picked Gnome on a recent update to my primary home machine for its clean Mac-ish feel, but SteamOS convinced me that modern KDE is actually rather nice.

If you live somewhere with mosquitos, you can't win.

Dark colors: better for stains, worse for avoiding mosquitos

Light colors: worse for stains, better for avoiding mosquitos

I'm not sure what there is to discuss. These seem pretty accurate at this point.

Oof, that's a good one. What's the data source for the graph?

I used to do tech support with them as a client. Worst IT team to work with, they were always impatient jerks. I never did figure out if the company hired shitty people in the first place or just treated them like dirt with no outlet for their stress except outside vendors.