lennivelkant @ lennivelkant @discuss.tchncs.de

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As in, desgined to fail early? I highly doubt that.

Even if it were true, lightbulbs still last longer and are way cheaper. Whether I have to replace them every six years or every five years doesn't matter as much.

You could just google it-

oh wait

Based and Hollywood-pilled

No bad friends! Focus on the upsides

Sparta couldn't even conquer more than their own backyard. They'd overrun Messenia and enslaved the lot, then spent a few centuries bickering with the rest of Greece, until Persia financed them to claim hegemony. That hegemony lasted 33 years, then they bickered with Thebes for a while, took losses, never quite recovered and eventually got subjugated first by the Macedonians, then by the Romans.

You mean the one from the company that pays out their CEO a fat $6m salary, paid for by Google bribing Mozilla to be the default search engine?

I don't trust your recommendation. Do you even realise you're being herded like sheep?

(I actually use it too, but I won't pretend they're saints. It also occasionally has trouble with some websites, but I haven't done any comprehensive testing to confirm whether it's browser-specific.)

That was the joke I was setting up for :D

What's your recommendation then?

I think if your organs are all tarred up, you have a problem

Homotopic: Having the same (homo-) topological properties (-topic)

I'm in the process of starting a fight with my neighbours. They complained (indirectly) about our garden being unkempt. I asked them for an appointment to talk directly so we can figure out just what the problem is. I'm not doing shit until they can tell me just what part of my little piece of nature is breaking any laws.

Product packaging for non-foods

What, you don't think 1cm² of product should be packaged in a 7×10 cm doubled-up plastic sheet?

Shai-Hulud actually does some good though. Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

Tthat's not south of Antarctica though. It's below, in terms of the map's perspective, but "absolute south" is the middle of the picture. Anywhere outside Antarctica is north of Antarctica.

The fact that you launch into some part of your day doesn't change that it's gauging your mood on her end.

Maybe not, but the fact that me launching into that is an accepted and expected part of the response does.

If a manager calls me about a project and asks how I am, they don't want me recounting an earlier frustrating interaction. As you say, they're trying to gauge my mood, but ultimately my mood or how it came to be are irrelevant because we're here to talk business. If I omit my headache, they don't care.

If my GF asks me, she actually wants a response. If I omit my headache and she finds out later, she'll be upset: "Why didn't you say so earlier?"

That expectation is the difference.

Only for bipedals. Quadrupedal animals can well keep a leg on the ground at all times even when moving at speed. To borrow from another comment here: Would you call a stampeding elephant "walking"?

Charitably, it sounds like someone highly competent in one field dramatically misjudging their competence in another: Just because you're good at chemistry doesn't meam you also know how that chemistry acts on an ecosystem.

Cynically, it sounds like someone coming up with a genius idea, hoping to make money and dismissing any shortcomings because they get in the way of money.

It was a really stupidly worded comment on his part. If he meant Big Tech and Little Tech spwcifically rather than Big Business in general and individual people, his choice of words and the claim that the tables had "completely turned" are really unfortunate. Tagging the annoying orange directly also doesn't help make this look like it's about the pick, rather than the picker.

As an aside, forgive me if I withhold my enthusiasm until I see her actually pull something through and not just end up another way to cripple ElMo's competition.

If a colleague asks me "Hi, how're you doing?" it's small talk and I'll respond something like "Oh you know, the usual." If my partner asks me "Hi, how was your day?" it's a genuine question and I will respond "That fucking dickhead at work that always plays nice and personable came around with another set of "urgent" requests and no fucking clue what he's actually asking for, whether it's possible or why I told him last week it isn't."

The difference is in how serious I take the question.