Well, according to these industry-funded/conducted research papers, it works quite well, quite often!
Just as your current local or national politician who used to work for us, is being funded by us, and will go back to working for us if they lose their next election!
I am in my mid 30s and am thus fucking ancient by tech / internet culture standards.
Apparently the new lingo is ‘unc’, I have reached ‘unc status’… which is more or less literally accurate in terms of age description (shorthand for uncle), but it seems to be a term used almost exclusively in derision, as basically an ageist slur?
I’m not sure, but that also means that I am in fact old, as I can no longer follow the lingo, rofl.
1: How is talking about weird quirks of English vocabulary that differ regionally and among different groups of people… off topic?
2: Many people online pronounce ‘loli’ with all kinds of different pronounciations of the ‘o’… at least in part because there is much regional variation in the US as to how all vowels are pronounced in just all words.
Some pronounce it with the same sound as ‘low’, the long o. Other pronounce it as ‘lawl’, others pronounce it as ‘lahl’, the way uh… Data’s sort of android adopted daughter’s name is pronounced in TNG.
I have heard Brits, Aussies and Kiwis pronounce ‘loli’ with all kinds of vowel sound variations as well.
Pronouncing it the same as in ‘lolipop’ is a very common pronounciation, amongst many different regional English dialects.
Yep.
The contentious but somewhat agreed upon story of how this happened is roughly: US troops discover ‘fries’ in restaurants in Belgium, after WW1, but in an area of Belgium with mostly French speakers.
Americans appreciate alliteration, and don’t care so much for actual accuracy, so… ‘French Fries’.
I would tell this asshat to go back to Alberta, where he was born, but I would not wish such harm on Canadians.
So instead, I will link a now somewhat out of date, but otherwise fairly comphrensive youtube video explaining how shitty this guy is.
Renegade Cut - Nobody Likes Ted Cruz
He is a slimy worm who believes in nothing, but just appoints himself the mouthpiece of the whatever the crazy republican flavor of this particular election season is.
Am… am I old enough now that if I explain why the 3 1/2 inch ‘floppies’ were called ‘floppies’, despite having a hard case… that people would appreciate it out of etymylogical curiosity?
Before the 3 1/2 inch form factor for ‘floppies’… there were 8 inch, and 5 3/4 inch floppies… which did not have a hard plastic case, and were about as flexible as an empty, open manilla folder.
(I hope to god I am not so old I need to explain what a manilla folder is)
Anyway, these larger floppies did have a protective case, but it was a much more thin and flexible kind of plastic, which would bend and… flop.
Hence, floppy disk.
If you crack open a 3 1/2 inch floppy, you will see a very similar kind of floppy, magnetically read/writeable disk as with their antecedents… which itself is basically an evolution of even older magnetic tape drives, which were more or less similar to audio cassette tapes and vcr tapes, but spun and wound around as reels, instead of radially.
… So anyway, Tasha, what form factor of floppy drive is your favorite: 3 1/2, 5 3/4, or 8 inch?
Yes, ours are all limp.
… Are you aware that ‘loli’, pronounced the same as ‘lollie’… is art (usually drawn) that depicts sexualized or nude children, and … fans of, or viewers of loli… are called lolis?
I am reasonably confident this is widespread internet terminology across the entire English speaking internet at this point, but you being Australian and… possibly not being aware of this… makes me question that assumption somewhat.
That or perhaps you’re older than me?
… Uh, anyway, in America we have ‘fries’ or ‘french fries’, but seemingly every other English speaking country calls them ‘chips’.
Which is confusing to the hungry, overweight, American brain, because what we call chips, ya’ll tend to call ‘crisps’.
But at the same time, we can’t even agree on whether or not a sugary, carbonated beverage is called soda, pop, or just coke, used to refer to all soft drinks, not just coca cola.
Also people who live in a basement, or cave, or underground complex of some kind, or who are currently caving, … they also aren’t ‘on’ Earth, they’re ‘in the Earth’, … and people currently in submersibles, under the water line, well they’re not on the surface, they’re in or under the ocean or w/e, by this grammatical level of pedantry.
If I remember right, that is exactly what happened.
Though I wasn’t there on the last day of renovsting that room, I think it was the guy who uh, did the initial demo work on the wall, who did exactly as you describe, along with the original piece of paper, which was now preserved in … either a ziploc bag, or vacuum sealed as you’d do with some meat you’d want to preserve for freezing.
cough
not the only thing that’s on point
quickly eyes the angular monoboob, then looks away
I had a semi related, IRL, Bethesda style enviornmental story telling ‘event’ involving a wall happen once.
Back in college… I wasn’t actually in this one fraternity, but was friends with almost all the guys in it, was good friends with the core group that restarted its local chapter that had been dormant for like a decade or two.
So one day, its video games and beer, and … well, this one room needed to be renovated, so we didn’t give a fuck. One guy loses at Smash Bros, fucking fist through the wall.
… After he walks back a bit, we notice… wait wtf there’s something… on the frame…?
We tear out more of the wall, and no shit, there is a miniature time capsule in the form of a note saying basically 'Cheers to any future (fraternity name)‘s, from the class of 1982!’ … and there is also a fucking can of Rainier … from 1982.
So the dude who initially Donkey Kong’d the wall gets dibs on the 30+ year old stale beer of course, downs it immediately.
… The funny part is that this was always supposed to have been a dry fraternity, no alcohol allowed.
Microplastics in your blood?
Pff. AMATEUR!
Serve me that shit on a platter, a la carte, bespoke cuisine!
That and Nvidia blindsiding them with ‘cool engine you’ve been working on for a decade there… you have one year to jam realtime raytracing into it.’
In case ya’ll don’t know about Heinrich Schliemann…
Now you do.
He fucking dynamited what quite likely is the actual location of ancient Troy…in the early days, the field of archaelogy had a number of basically wealthy idiot assholes who fancied themselves as ‘great men’, who went around doing nonsense like this, and of course just actually stealing the artefacts and taking them back to museums in their home countries.
Schliemann obliterated the potential Troy site so thoroughly that archaeologists spent over 100 years looking at other potential sites… only to largely (not entirely, but largely) come to the conclusion that Schiemann’s Troy site probably is the actual correct site…
… But he fucking blew it up.
Not an OS, but…
WINE? Nah, brandy… saurian brandy.
…
Can anyone figure out how to turn ‘Saurian Brandy’ into a self referential acronym?
I was gonna say, my head canon seems to either recall or have invented the idea that the dad was some kind of CFO or accountant… but I don’t know if that idea has any actual evidenced merit from the movies, been a long time since I’ve seen em.
Its less fun when it isn’t consensual.
And this has happened to me twice, with two different gals.
…but anyway, I don’t have their numbers, and one of them at least is almost certainly dead by now: after she went off her meds, went nuts and assaulted me, she got arrested, evicted, ended up homeless, kept refusing her meds when case workers tried to offer her a stable living situation on the condition she take her meds.
My gamedev-fried brain interprets the beans image as like, the texture for the uv wrap of the side of the cylinder of beans that is inside of a tin can of beans.
… I think I need to go outside more often.