We have heard that you folks don’t like asbestos in our new cereal, so we reduced* the amount of asbestos in it.

^*reducing means we put somewhat less in it. Any amount less. 0.7% less is considered a reduction.^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7U82MzYZgA

I mean, last week’s swamp arc hunt was rather similar. I don’t know how much it changed player behaviour, but while I made an effort that week to get something up to three stars, I still avoided making too much of a constant ruckus in the swamp. It just feels more backstabby, and the last thing I want is getting caught between two wasps and a rocketeer where there’s no proper cover nearby (unless you’re camping the huts).

Tsss, it’s barely 1/6th of a skateboarding rhino.

Or, you know, basically everything that he did or said regarding Ukrainians in the past. If the political figures Putin has just sent the other day won’t be enough to rig the elections then there is a good chance he will stop being a PM after the April elections. I can’t wait. It won’t be an immediate cure for all the troubles he is causing and had caused, but it’s a good start.

I used to go to uni in this city which had the “horse’s butt” / “horse butt”. It’s just a regular horse soldier kind of statue, nothing special about it; however, due to it being right in front of one of the university buildings, among students it (or the surrounding area) was called like that. I doubt the creator had the title “horse’s rear” in mind.

“Your device ran into a problem and needs to rest”

Me too, little computer, me too.

Fair enough, that could also be seen as a star. By “everyone knows what it means” I meant people in my country - I didn’t try to suggest everyone else would, as well. But either way, star head still narrows it down less poorly than Philips does (to people who don’t immediately know).

Hell, we call it something like “star head screwdriver” and still everyone knows what it means (no, don’t bring up more than 4 apexes (apices)). Imagine moving to a random country and they recommend you to buy an Intel layout keyboard or a Sony audio socket.

Which is a fair point. I’m not an expert by any means, but the change in population growth could have come from various effects: maybe it wasn’t the end of socialism, but the start of capitalism; maybe it wasn’t the start of capitalism, but a general uncertainty after the old system dissolved; maybe it was coming from a third source (see above); maybe it was a global phenomenon, which has been happening in developed countries ever since; I don’t know, maybe it was The Shining coming out in 1980.

Sorry, the last time I was commenting from the toilet. I’ve done some looking up:

France:

Spain:

Germany:

Italy:

I mean, I know that 5 countries isn’t considered reliable statistics, I guess, but most of them are also on the rise in the given time period. Italy and a few other countries seemingly had a dip.

Ahem. I wonder if non-communist states are any different, or it’s just that birth rates dipped before/during a World War, and they were all climbing back up until ~the '80s?

Into the square hole.

I lost my BT earbuds 2 months ago, have a Type C phone, and just chucked out my ~5 Type C earbuds, because I had never used them since I got the Bluetooth one. I only left a pair of Jack earbuds. Guess where my Type C to Jack adapter went…

speedruns

My name is Low Sleep Stress Coffee Cream Cheese Shit Hubert, and I live in a cave, and take 12 seconds to poop and 11 hours 59 minutes 48 seconds to wipe per working day and I am an outlier and should not be counted in the averaged data.

Oh, hierarchy as a concept is a whole can of worms on its own, but the kind of xenophobia I was describing seemed to be independent from the concept of hierarchy: at least by my observation, it’s more like a “them”/“us” divide, but indeed with an asymmetric aspect in mind.

Hierarchy being a “recent” thing (and the potential to leave it behind) sounds hopeful, but while us fucking up the planet is even more recent, we might be able to finish that before even thinking about changing anything.

First F-15: “it was friendly fire”. Second F-15: “shoots down another F-15”.

Great title, BTW: it shows again that ‘US’ is somewhere it definitely shouldn’t be.

I’d be willing to give up my habit, but imagine the DECADES of constant confusion, mistakes and accidents because 8 years into the change you need to figure out whether the right number is 4.827 or 4,827 in the document you’re looking at… And now you need to investigate the creation date.

Because with time, this light is also putting an end to not just itself but every other form of life around it.

Whether the positives outweigh the negatives doesn’t really matter when there’s nobody left around. Once we get to the point where the climate disaster is bad enough and irreversible (it might have happened already), it doesn’t even matter if humanity suddenly falls back into the middle ages and gets primitive enough to not do any harm anymore: certain processes won’t just suddenly stop.