I don’t want to frighten off or disincentivize investment into America by outside countries or companies

Says the guy who stopped any and all US government investment into companies and countries outside America. It’s like that comic of the dog with a ball; “no take, only give”.

A society so advanced they’re holding productive, 3-minute meetings purely for the social aspect. Long enough to be productive, not so long you want to burn the whole god damned place to the ground.

This is exactly something that has annoyed me in a sports community I follow back on Reddit. Posts with titles along the lines of “I asked ChatGPT what it thinks will happen in the game this weekend and here is what it said”.

Why? What does ChatGPT add to the conversation here? Asking the question directly in the subreddit would have encouraged the same discussion.

We’ve also learned nothing about the OPs opinion on the matter, other than maybe that they don’t have one. And even more to the point, it’s so intellectually lazy that it just feels like karma farming. “Ya I have nothing to add but I do love me them updoots”.

I would rather someone posted saying they knew shit all about the sport but they were interested, than someone feigning knowledge by using ChatGPT as some sort of novel point of view, which it never is. It’s ways the most milquetoast response possible, ironically adding less to the conversation than the question it’s responding to.

But that argument always just feels overly combative for what is otherwise a pretty relaxed sports community. It’s just not worth having that fight there.

Saying “year-over-year growth declined” suggests that it still grew, just not as much as the previous year. If it grew 10% one year and 9% the next, that would be a 10% decline in growth.

But like you’ve pointed out, that doesn’t appear to be the case. It seems like X is in decline, so the wording used there is odd, at the very least.

They’re not thinking of it from your point of view, where you’ve come from any one of thousands of different airports with different rules.

They’re thinking of it from their own point of view. Where they’ve been doing the same thing every day for years, with rules that don’t change much if at all, and somehow every single motherfucker that comes through their line gets it wrong.

To be fair, having to repeatedly explain the same fairly simple rules over and over and over again to people who are just not getting it would wear pretty thin fairly quickly. But it’s not really the fault of everyone else for not knowing that specific airport’s specific rules.

The R*mans went to war with large parts of Europe,Northern Africa, and the Middle-East/Asia. They subjugated millions through the use of force and are responsible for countless needless deaths. Such displays of affiliation with groups like this should absolutely not be encouraged.

Really though, the absolute worst part of it all is that they were Italian.

I’m guessing this is some kind of climate change protest thing. It looks like your screenshot is taken from Bing Maps, but you can only see the outline of hte skull on Google Maps.

Oooh, imagine how good a bowl of next-day soup from the replicator would be the next day!

I think it was the way that exploration felt like a grind that made it so “meh”. A whole universe to explore, and you’re either going to come to a barren rock planet, or find the same enemy base/outpost 5 times in a row.

For a game where space exploration was one of the main selling points, it felt remarkably unlike exploring at times.

If you can’t afford to pay for one of the raw materials required to make your product, then you don’t deserve to have a business selling that product.

In any other scenario would this even be in question?

Standing in the street outside your crushes house, flag in each hand, trying desperately to remember the proper way to signal “will you go out with me” in semaphore.

The original mini had a wheelbase of just over 3m

The wheelbase was just over 2m, but the total length was just over 3m.

I’m not going to pretend I know better than the people who are buying them if they offer any real utility, but it’s not like they’re new. The Hilux has been around donkey’s years. It’s only the last couple of years they’ve started to catch on big-time. I don’t understand what’s changed that’s pushed a lot of lads away from the likes of a Transit into a Ford Ranger.

Although I’m sure there were plenty of people driving Land Cruisers before who are in Rangers now, and are carrying precisely the same amount of absolutely fuck all in them.

XKCD 2501, basically.

The only people that read xkcd are those that can understand it

If that was true, there’d be no need for ExplainXKCD.com.

And even then on some of the more physics-y ones I just give Randall the benefit of the doubt that it’s funny.

I’m more surprised they didn’t try to corner the thieving and grifting market for their own.

It’s still 12.5%. I don’t think it was ever as low as 7 or 8. I don’t think it’s gone up to 15% yet either, but it was being talked about for sure.

Funnily enough, Shawn is the anglicisation of the Irish name Seán, so spelled for the reasons outlined in the OP.

What about all the bowling cattle you had to castrate for those balls?

People who are good with tech VASTLY overestimate the general public’s tech literacy.

https://xkcd.com/2501/