There's an argument that BSD would have been dominant in that case. It was bogged down in lawsuits claiming that it was pirated Bell Unix at the time, but they were dismissed not long after.
The arrival of Linux also slowed development of the GNU Hurd kernel, so that's another possible contender.
In the sense that PC stands for "personal computer", yes.
But PC has historically been a shortening of "IBM PC compatible", which makes certain assertions about system architecture. In this sense, x86 Macs are PCs, but others are not.
The only times I've ever used Discord are for things that really should have been on a forum, issue tracker, or something like a lemmy community in the first place.
I hope this causes a return to sanity, but I'm not holding my breath.
Worse than that, in order to preserve the date/day-of-week correlation, the extra 1-2 days (you still need leap years) would not have to be part of any week.
So that's instant opposition from all the Abrahamic religions.
The fact that they're still referring to obvious missteps as "great new mechanics" doesn't fill me with much confidence.
That they are naming this update after another widely-panned Civ game is icing on the cake. (This may admittedly be unintentional, as it is also a reference to the tagline of the original game, but it still reads as tone deaf to me.)
That logic assumes that there is some universal way if measuring the position of the Earth, but there is no absolute system for measuring position in space. Location, distance, velocity, and even simultaneity depend entirely on the choice of a frame of reference. And the frame in which the earth is stationary is no less valid than any other.
Also the type of time machine has a bearing here. The traditional H.G. Wells vehicle-type doesn't jump, but moves smoothlythrough all the intervening moments in time, so there's no reason it wouldn't stay firmly on the surface. And a time portal that forms a connection to the same apparatus at a different time would have no problem either, since the machine itself doesn't move except in the ordinary way.
I used to buy a lot of DLC for Paradox grand strategy games. I never thought full-price was worth it, but they regularly had 90+% off sales where you could pick up all but the most recent for a couple bucks each. Nowadays they never seem to go lower than 50%, which puts them solidly in the price range where I could get an entire game for the same price, and I can't justify that.
I think you're underestimating the heavy lifting being done by "adequately". Does stupidity adequately explain a corporation doing evil shit that made them a bunch of money? Absolutely not.
I'm a native English speaker and I also have no idea what they were trying to say.