I am so so painfully sorry for your loss of a clearly wonderful pupper.

You did something incredibly beautiful by giving Zeus the love and the forever home he always deserved. From what you’ve shared, you did everything right.

Please keep this in your heart: Zeus passed at the foot of your bed and while you wish you were holding him, to him, he was in his comfort place and WAS with you. To dogs, who can hear and smell a lot better than us, and gain so much just by being in proximity of those they love, he no doubt felt your calming presence the entire time; your heartbeat, your smell, your breath.

To him, he passed peacefully exactly where he wanted to be. With you.

All tortoises are turtles (but not all turtles are tortoises) from a biology point of view. Tortoises specifically being exclusively land-based members of the turtle (Testudines) order. So there is a difference.

And “spring” doesn’t really have different meanings - as per the root of the word, it always means some variant of “to burst forth”. There’s lots of different definitions for the word but they’re all rooted in the same place, from an etymology point of view.

The season bursting forth from the winter darkness and cold, the metal coil as it bursts forth when released from compression, the source of water as it bursts forth from the ground, bursting forth someone out of jail, etc.

Homographs are the real problem - when two different words, over time, become spelled the same.

Sow, lead, close, bear. All have multiple etymologies where different words eventually became spelled the same. Those are the worst!

English is a truly crazy mashup of Latin, Greek, French, German, Celtic, Norse and more.

Great BBC article on this.

Oooooh. Drama.

Credit artists.
Cite references.

It’s the internet. Hyperlinking is foundational.

Huh?!

not gonna crop out that username? isn’t that an ad for Betty Bowers?

You’re literally the one calling names adverts, were the first to bring it up, and the other person didn’t say anything on the topic except in response to you.

Are you confusing OP with someone else?

This comment rivals My Immortal on grammar and spelling.

I would imagine it’s the pain for locals where housing costs a fortune and the city becomes a ghost town out of season.

Allegedly

I M M E R S I O N

You had McDonalds? That was just a farm in my day. Eee-eye-eee-eye-oh!

They’re raising it because of RAM needs of browsers and GNOME.

If you’re a shell nerd like me, you’ll still be fine running it on a potato.

I did. That’s the bit that’s wrong. You don’t own a copy. Read the terms and conditions. I handily copied and pasted the relevant parts.

The fact you have a copy does not mean you own it. Ownership would mean you could transfer that property. You cannot transfer it (legally).

You own nothing on GOG. It’s a license like everywhere else plus the benefit of having access to DRM-free binaries. Your license permits you to download and use those binaries personally. But you do not own them.

That benefit of the rights to download and use those DRM-free binaries, however, is not to be sniffed at. It’s a fantastic benefit!

But you don’t own them.

This isn’t quite right. You do not own the game, you are purchasing a non-transferable license, bound to you:

2.1 We give you and other GOG users the personal right (known legally as a ‘license’) to use GOG services and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content. This license is for your personal use.

3.3 Your GOG account and GOG content are personal to you and cannot be shared with, sold, gifted or transferred to anyone else.

It’s simply a boon that they entitle you to download DRM-free binaries but technically, if that license is revoked by GOG, you are not legally entitled to use or store that binary anymore. Practically, however, is a different story.

Source

Untrackable shrapnel moving at up to 18,000 miles per hour…

Not a vegan but since when is posting vegan content to a vegan community “spamming”?

Why are you even in here!?

Macrohard Window

The use of weasel words to shirk clarity on commitment is a bit of an indicator that they don’t mean what you said.

I get the vibe that Europe isn’t interested in participation in another Afghanistan or Iraq war.

We express our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait.

Nothing about safeguarding. Contributions to “appropriate efforts” could be anything from providing SIGINT, teaching someone how to use an anti-drone capability, to tutting loudly.

Appropriate is quite the weasel word in this context.

And whatever “appropriate” is, the group will only be contributing towards “appropriate”, not doing “appropriate” directly.

KDE turned my MacBook plasma!

Most had inserts you could pull/slide out to empty.

Fuck I feel old.