The Middleman: You know how in comic books there’s all kinds of mad scientists and aliens and androids and monsters, and all of them either want to destroy or take over the world?
Wendy: In comic books, sure.
The Middleman: Well it really does work like that.
It’s gonna take a GORP to drag me awaaaay from yoooou!
And it’s nothing that a hundred Gax or more could ever dooooooo!
Coming from an astronomy background, I can tell you that abso-fucking-lutely no one is going to use zettameters instead of kiloparsecs. If I tried to use that in a paper or talk people would think I was insane, and then demand I convert it to kPc.
And they would be right to do so since kPc is an immediately understandable distance (to astronomers). One parsec is roughly the distance between stars. So one kiloparsec tells me something is about 1000 star-distances across. Easy. I have no idea what a zettameter is. I like consistent rules as much as the next guy, but sometimes you have to make accommodations for things that are actually useful instead of the “strictly correct” option that is useful to no one.
I have to use Power BI for my job and it does automatically saves until it’s been open too long and then it stops automatically saving and also won’t let you manually save. Then you have to do a Save As for some reason, close every open PBI file, and reopen them, which takes approximately 3-5 business days.
So he’s gonna just… stay on the plane? Just sit there on a plane he knows isn’t going to go anywhere?
Sounds like the students were the smart ones, they could at least go catch another flight.
This is some real conspiracy theory thinking. This entire article boils down to “I have figured out this secret thing that nobody else, not even the former president or candidates of the Democratic party know about!” It’s all a wild supposition with zero backing evidence, just this one person’s shower thought being passed off as fact.
Please don’t buy into this level of lizard-people nonsense. It’s not helpful for anyone.
No, social media is not just for pictures.
But if someone is using it just for pictures and you try to sell them on a service that isn’t fitting to their use case, that’s on you if they’re not interested.
Know your audience. Offer them alternatives that actually fit their preferences, not yours.
Choosing to read this in Astarion’s voice.
I mean, by the original meaning of “first world country” we were by definition.
The first and second world countries were the US and USSR after WW II, and their immediate spheres of influence. The term “third world country” was, if I recall correctly, originally a self-assigned label to essentially say “we’re not part of this shit-flinging fight”. Which then people started viewing as “too poor to be worth dragging into either major power’s sphere of influence” and then just “poor”.
You’re a short motherfucker and nobody likes you!
flute noises BITCH!
Everybody says, “Look how fucking short that guys is.”
And that stops you from forming meaningful relationships.
When you were born everybody thought that you were just a head
But then the doctor said, "WAIT!
This stupid, motherfucking, tiny, short-ass baby Got a tiny, little, itty-bitty body
And I hate it!"
Have you played Caesar 3 with the Augustus mod? Its like a whole new game. It adds a ton and there’s even a whole fan-made campaign.
Hello there, sounds like you’re experiencing survivorship bias.
Its rare for you to see this, sure. Same for everyone else. But people aren’t here to post screenshots of “look at this website where I didn’t get flagged for having an ad blocker.” So we just see a lot of screenshots where it is a problem, because that’s what is noteworthy. There isn’t someone out there getting flagged on every single website they open, we’re just sampling a large population of user for only the websites where people do get flagged.
Why are we talking about this at all? Because it is becoming more common and more intrusive. This example is particularly egregious because you’re already on the website to give them money. They’re complaining to the user they they don’t get to make money off of them while taking their money, which is ridiculous.
Not IT but data analyst. Missed a 2% salary increase for our union members when projecting next year’s budget. $12 million mistake that was only caught once it was too late to fix.