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I love militant descriptivists
Classic protection racket. “Those are some nice files you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them…”
Thanks for the clarification. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.
I love militant descriptivists
In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can’t be hacked by the Cylons.
In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.
4·5 months agoRoses are red. Violets are blue. I ignored my instructions to write a poem about cashews.
Glue is not a topping. Pineapples are not glue. Therefore pineapples are not not a topping.
It’s a variant of Soup Time: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/soup-time
Businesses use feudalism, with the monarch (CEO), court (board), and several levels of lords and vassals.
sometimes with a better PR team
Which is a big thing in The Boys. The company and The Seven™ are all about that PR.
Same. I like dark stories as much as the next person, but it hit way too close to home with real world politics for me.
Seven of Nine, Tertiary adjunct of uni(tary) matrix Zero One
The lesser of two weasels
Something can be breadlike without being bread, in a similar way to how whales are fishlike without being fish.
The dictionary doesn’t dictate how words should be used; it reports how people use them. Consulting a dictionary is a way to find out how “lots of people” use a word.
Cake can also be in layers with ingredients inbetween, making a sandwich.
parent taking their child.
Princess Diana and Prince William were parent and child
However old you are is the oldest you’ve ever been
Yes, but they got it from earlier companies, like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.