Malgas

I was actually up late playing Deus Ex the night of September 10, 2001, which I think added an extra layer of surreality to the next day.

Regarding your call to get DOS and Win32 games running on Linux: they do, and have done for years.

How’s your waste removal system?

“The ‘excrement stigma’ is real and severely punishes sandwich shops.” A new study shows how much using excrement in sandwiches hurts sales…

I dunno, guys, have your maybe considered not serving shit sandwiches? But no, I guess “try to use it in ways your customers won’t notice” is the only way forward.

You’re describing Cunningham’s Law. Which the relevant xkcd doesn’t call anything in particular.

Nerd sniping is unrelated.

Everything I do is the attitude of an award winner because I’ve won an award.

—Ron Swanson, Woman of the Year

Do you have any tips on how to set up a python environment using nix?

I also use NixOS (btw) but have so far sidestepped this by the expedient of giving up on any project not in nixpkgs whose install process is a pypi script.

Peppermint Patty and Marcie?

That was a valid reason 15 years ago, but wine/proton have gotten really really good.

It’s basically a crude version of WWI dazzle camo.

Bringing lunch from home, traditionally in a brown paper bag.

Sounds more like The Blacklist to me.

There have been similar moral panics about whatever the kids were doing throughout history, including comic books, jazz, prose literature, the waltz, polyphonic music, and even writing stuff down instead of just remembering it.

I gather it wasn’t in the original release, but by the time I played it there was a difficulty setting. The easier difficulty is compatible to classic Zelda.

Don’t staves of the magi explode spectacularly when destroyed?

That party might be done for either way.

I’m actually wondering how much of that figure is tied to the actual materials and workmanship, and how much is because they are The Crown Jewels.

I saw something recently that made the argument that English has structures that act like kanji as well. The same is true for Spanish.

Consider the glyph 1. By itself you’d read it ‘one’, but then what about 1st, where it is read ‘fir-’? And then 10 and 11 don’t match either of those, or each other.

Personal pronouns and verb conjugations based on formality

Hoo boy, if you want to talk about vocabulary and grammar changes based on formality, that’s like Japanese’s whole thing.

One thing nobody’s mentioned in this thread is counters, which are little helper words attached to numbers. Which one you should use depends on what is being counted, the categories are highly idiosyncratic and generally have nothing to do with their ordinary use (e.g. 本, which elsewhere means “book” is the counter for long thin objects like pens or bananas), and there are dozens of them.

When I think about this comic, it’s always the alt-text that comes to mind:

By the third trimester, there will be hundreds of babies inside you.

And if we want to be really precise about where energy comes from, it’s worth noting that all elements heavier than hydrogen (i.e. all if them) are the result of stellar fusion. Up to iron in the main phase, and anything heavier in supernovae, neutron star mergers, and possibly other extremely violent events. So fission is extracting the stored energy of dead stars.

Ultimately, it’s probably all just residual energy from the Big Bang.