damn

Among other issues that's going to make it harder for them to do other stuff.

It has been a pretty short trip from "Don't be evil" to "The cutting edge of late stage capitalism"

took me a minute. Still waking up. The Bilbo Frodo age diff is 111-33, though so if this is Frodo at 50, Bilbo is older than 111 at the time of writing

face, meet leopard

git branch testing.stephanie.slept.with.my.friend.brad

Then delete and start over, or don't use data you don't have explicit permission to use.

Waiting for 100% oral exams to make a comeback.

I've been saying for about 15 years now -- you'd have to be a masochist to buy HP printers. Why do people keep enabling these shits? You just encourage them to be even worse. Don't stand for even a little of their bullshit and they will change or die. You make a noose for your own neck.

I expect a lot more authors will go this (crowdfunding) route; if Kelsey Dionne can get over $1.3 million for a fairly niche TTRPG product (albeit that it was a very well done example of its particular niche), publishing straight up fiction books via crowdfunding has to look pretty damn attractive.

(edit: added a missing word)

Because of the Norman invasion. 1066 and all that. (edit: specifically, after a time the peasants spoke English and looked after the animals, the nobility spoke french and named the food, so we got the English words for the animals and the French words for most of the farm animals were used for the food made from them)

https://xkcd.com/927/

That's a bit like asking "twitter or reddit"; different tools, different purposes. A single person may prefer one or the other, or use both in approximately equal measure.