Murdoc @ Murdoc @sh.itjust.works

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I'm not worried. I'm sure Captain Kirk will come back in time and save them.

Maybe they're made of yet-to-be-discovered "light matter", which you can see but exerts no gravity!

Looks more like shopping than stealing to me...

His stealthiness comes from a long religious tradition dating back to the Spanish Inquisition.

"Oh sure, that's a great idea." he said sarcastically.

I'm not sure what you mean by "dysfunctional autism" exactly, but this is a known trait of many autistic people. They often fail to pick up on social cues that most other people take for granted. It's just because their brain works differently, they tend to take people at face value. And unlike what some have professed to believe here, their desire to explain or correct you does not come from a desire to "be the smartest person in the room", but rather it's their way of helping. They like to have accurate information, so they assume others do too. So yes, combine these two traits with a person who like to screw with them and you get conversations like this, which unfortunately amounts to a pretty nasty form of teasing.

He was clearly there on Double-D Day.

I love them both.

Like much of my early language skills, I learned it from Sesame Street:
"Remember: No g-news is good g-news with Gary Gnu!" 😛

Nee!

Yeah, so many great shows got cancelled last time around. Still hurts.

I've been meaning to post about a similar issue, where when I backspace, it removes the space between the previous 2 words, so I have to backspace more, and sometimes it happens again. So this makes me have to start moving the cursor around myself to fix things. Very annoying.

I hope this practice never dies.
(Also has "the artist formerly known as Prince vibes".)

The Gungan city was beautiful though. Put a new race in there, maybe the Mon Cal, and you're golden. Otherwise I'm with you.

Vivaldi is closed source but still source available, so it can still be examined.

I'd recommend doing some reading up on this because I can't explain it all in one comment, but the shorthand is that neither the USSR nor China (or even Cuba) are countries that "use" communism, as in that is the system that they are running. They are "communist" because that is what they believe in (or at least some people did, or claim to), just in the same way that a person can be a "capitalist" living in a non-capitalist country. It was what they were trying to achieve, not what they were/are. The USSR was a socialist dictatorship, and they never claimed to be anything else, because Marx prescribed that system as the transition between capitalism and communism. So anything these parties did that we disagree with (not accounting for propaganda) was due to them being dictatorships, not communism, which by definition is a stateless country, i.e. no political government, the exact opposite of a dictatorship.

Name calling, classy.

More like propaganda is so good that most people don't even know what communism even is, let alone that what the USSR did wasn't it, even said so themselves.

What may be needed is to first promote the basic idea that doing the right thing is most often harder than not. It applies to a lot of areas including this one, and it's a hard one to make a habit of. I figured this out many years ago and yet here I am typing this out on an Android phone, wishing that I had spent that money on a more privacy respecting one when I had the chance. But people have to get into the habit of not always choosing the "quicker, easier, more seductive" route all the time, because we all know where that leads.

Tbf, lots of things in Windows are a pain when you're used to Linux.

Correction: Lots more things are a pain...