We’ve got a poll going in Discord. Peter Thiel was the frontrunner before the mods did a bot purge; now the American people seemingly want Hornet from Silksong.

It looks from the head of the post like there was once a top pole.

Probably got damaged from someone sitting on it or climbing over. Or someone interpreting the “dispose of trash” sign too enthusiastically.

Yeah, but it’s OpEx, so it’s just imaginary expenditure.

That’s a portal disguised as an old lady disguised as Steve Bannon.

Literally never heard of it. Are you talking about Microsoft 365 Copilot, formerly known as Microsoft 365, formerly known as Office 365?

I once met a koala holding a little plaquard saying “Bear X-ing”

Do you live in a Richard Scarry book?

*boucey – they’re Irish, not Scotch

When you install TikTok, it fabricates its own independent SoC within your phone. Sometimes you can tell because the case bulges slightly, but it depends on the model.

This isn’t strictly forbidden by Android and iOS APIs (yet), but there are limitations – this most notably affects the capacitors on the new SoC which degrade quickly and can make a faint clicking noise, hence the name “TikTok”.

Use whatever software you want, more power to you, but I’m not totally convinced that “chaired by a fascist transphobic multibillionaire oligarch who actively subverts democracy at every opportunity” and “introduced a feature I don’t want to use into my free secure messaging app” are even close to equivocal?

I really wanted to like Baldur’s Gate 3. I didn’t play the prior games in the series, but I know a bunch of people who brim with excitement about it.

I’ve not really been involved in DnD in any form. I played the original Warcraft RTS as a kid, I’ve read everything from Tolkien, and I love some of the Elder Scrolls games, but that’s about it. I’d always got the impression that a lot of it was a bit hammy and amateur on the writing side, but I assumed BG3 would buck the trend.

…I just didn’t vibe with it at all. I found the combat exasperating, I didn’t mesh with the character motivations, and I failed to really get immersed. Maybe I really needed more backstory than a couple of lore lessons over beers.

It’s obviously a great game, but it was such a miss for me, and I wish that weren’t the case.

He rejected the Polish government’s offer to send a member of the Polish foreign office along with him, on the basis that he thinks they’ll offend Trump and his officials.

Got to block out time or you’ll find yourself accepting an invite to Janine’s three-hour-long cross-project check-in meeting even though she knew you were hibernating that season.

Huh, I thought NYCDOC on Rikers Island finished Epstein’s sentence.

OnlyOffice is Russian-owned, via a holding company in Singapore. When Russia invaded Ukraine and sanctions threatened the business, they obfuscated this, but it’s still Lev Bannov’s product.

The importance you attach to this is up to you, but they try quite hard to hide it.

There’s an optional “tabbed interface” in View > User Interface that’s a lot like the Office ribbon. Like the Office ribbon, it has context-sensitive additional tabs, and you can enable a compact version that shows less but takes up less vertical space.

I’ve not had a need for LibreOffice for a while, but it certainly looks a lot less cluttered than the default old-school toolbars.

This is also how the Channel Tunnel between Folkestone in the UK and Calais in France works, sans any amenities other than a toilet. Drive on, get taken under the strait, and drive off at the other side.

Ok, now we’re cooking with gas! They cite The Sharks of North America (Castro, 2011) which says:

The name “nurse” comes from “nusse,” meaning fish, which appears in print as early as 1440 in the Promptorium Parvulorum, an early English/Latin dictionary. […] “Nuses were there so plentie, that they would scarcely suffer any other fish to come neere the hookes” (Hakluyt 1589).

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “nusse” is derived from the earlier “huss,” the ancient name for the catsharks

The Promptorium Parvulorum has an entry for husk:

Husk of fyshe: Squamus, -i; Masc.,

with a note against that entry:

‘Huske, fyshe,’ Harl, some kind of fish.

• ‘Hush, the Lump, a fish,’ JAMIESON.
• ‘Husse, a fysshe : rousette,’ PALSGRAVE.
• ‘Huss, the dogfish,’ HALLIWELL.

So we have to trust the OED about the transformation from huss to nuss. I guess it could be the classic misdivision/rebracketing (“an huss” becoming “a nuss”) that gives us “nickname” and “newt”.

Did you find any convincing linguistic or etymological source for nusse? I can find a lot of near-verbatim articles repeating it, including the NatGeo article you’ve linked, but nothing independent and scholarly about the word.

• Piri piri
• Piri-piri
• Piripiri
• Peri peri
• Peri-peri

Did some quick reading on this. A few articles linked back to Belgian news site 7sur7, so I’m referencing that article here:

• The group who did this was Stop Arming Israel, not Palestine Action.
• They targeted OIP Land Systems because they’re a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, who are a major manufacturer of weapons sold to Israel.
• OIP used to sell military vehicles to Israel, but haven’t for a couple of decades.
• The result was a one-month delay in delivering the vehicle shipment to Ukraine.
• The CEO described the activists as “sympathisants du Hamas”, which personally makes me mistrust anything else he says.

I don’t mean to condone the damage they did - Ukraine needs all it can get - but it would be easy to read your message and think they’d deliberately taken action to hurt the Ukraine defence effort by raiding a company unconnected with Israel’s genocide.