This generational. I’ve seen a number of names I thought of as grandma names come back into fashion. People who are young enough not to have experienced grandmas with those names pick them. Gertrude is a grandma name to me, BTW, not a great-grandma name. I actually had a grandma named Gertrude. Welcome to old. (Edit: my brain glitched from Mildred to Gertrude there. Looking forward to Alzheimers.)

Yeah but this kind of salt they only taste test every half million years or so, so the expiration dates cant be trusted to be that precise.

They were carried by knights who didn’t have horses.

Maybe, but if true it means that whether the child is choking on feathers or bowling balls, they are ejected at the same speed, which is a great advantage of this technique.

Automated package testing before each update rolls out to users.

In the event that an update does break your system, you can roll back to the last snapshot from the grub menu (using the smart btrfs setup that is the installation default).

Also generally, maintained by very smart people, community is not toxic, corporate overlords more benign than most, IMO.

I thought of that but, no, that tree includes languages that didn’t exist then.

What is “year 0”?

Couldn’t you save a lot of money by scanning a few dozen at the same time?

This is fine.

i love when scientists take a swamp of arbitrary language terms and decide to impose some arbitrary specific meanings on them for purposes of their specific discipline and then convince people who don’t really get how language works (i.e. most people) that the definitions are authoritative. it’s fun to watch the cognitive dissonance when this collides with actual usage and people get all angry and righteous.

so that suggests you may need to add calcium carbonate to your water first.

What makes it harden? Is it nonnewtonian? Does it impale its prey?

What enrages me is the pairing of “wrong” and “correct”.

Then they just scam your friends family with you doing a funny voice.

No, they are the elves that smoked all of your weed.

Funny, I just finally gave up on it just a few months ago and moved on Quod Libet.

I was really hoping to see him almost fall over, but that was really a nothing. I hate him too, but stooping to exaggerations like this is kind of pathetic.

…spilled his arithmetic overflow on the ground.

One of the lost books of the bible featured Satan picking some especially sinful dude and telling him to build an ark too.

How do you get from $200 million in fines to “it’s ok”?