The most beautiful font ever. Although, this Metropolis is pretty nice, too.

Pollution makes their species stronger; this doesn’t imply an individual preference.

Idiots walking off cliffs doesn’t make the survivors like cliffs; it teaches them to avoid them.

That said, evolution can be a real crap shoot, and you never know what sort of perverse effects you’ll get: like us loving sugar so much we eat ourselves into diabetes.

History has demonstrated that Russians will put up with a tremendous amount of degradation in standard of living. It’s as if the author has utterly forgotten about Stalinism and the USSR.

The only difference really is that the USSR had a fairly glorious, noble façade; the current dictatorship has none of that panache.

This is a stupid post because it assumes the readers don’t. Which I’ll bet they do, more often than not.

Factorio.

The factory must grow.

It’s true that everyone is different. I’ve known people across the spectrum, who’d pick English names they liked the sound of (“Pearl”) and would refuse to tell me their given name; people who had long ago adopted nicknames to make it easier for foreigners (“JC”, “Raj”); folks who obviously didn’t give a shit (“eh, course enough”); but also the occasional person who’d go back and fourth with me on the pronunciation until we mutually realized it wasn’t going to happen.

I have always tried to pronounce names correctly, and I have a decent ear. However, with some languages, I apparently can’t hear some distinctions; there have been times when I was certain I was mimicking the sounds correctly, but the person repeatedly corrected me. It’s not (necessarily) that I can’t make the sounds, it’s that I can’t hear the difference between what’s right and what I’m saying. Chinese is one of those; I can’t get the romanized X and Z right.

Yeah, me too. And a vast amount of misogynistic stuff. The latter, I suspect, was just bog-standard puberty and oral lore, most of which was crude. But I still remember many limericks.

Just curious: where was that? Since I was a child, “Bimbo” meant a dumb, attractive, woman, and implied promiscuity. I heard it most in (Italian) gangster movies, mostly. From what I can tell, the racial slur meaning is used in Germany.

Funny; I lived in Germany for a couple of years and never heard that version, but then, I didn’t hang out with the types that would be inclined to teach it to me. I got standard cuss words and some colloquial Bavarian curses.

Both are true.

Many immigrants are highly educated and hold well-paying jobs, but the vast majority of immigrants, legal or otherwise, are a source of cheap(er) labor. They make about 86¢ per dollar their native-born peers make, and they’re less likely to hold management and higher positions.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/forbrn.pdf

AI scams

Oh, yeah. Ima take up smoking again when I turn 60. Statistically, something else will kill me long before I develop cancer if I start at that age.

I’m not opposed to better quality fried food, but there’s something comforting about being able to dig into the freezer and pull out something to shove in the oven, without having to make a trip out, wait for for, and/or eat in public.

Yes; but also, Zeno’s Paradox says the train will never arrive!

Maybe it just bounces against the stops and goes in the other direction.

Maybe you haven’t aged enough. There’s an awkward period in your 30’s ~ 40’s where your brain is confused and forgets what delicious looks like. Don’t worry: you get it back in your 50’s.

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

This is the most egregious instance of this practice. I hate icons being shuffled.

No.

I hate adaptive UIs. MS ribbon made it so hard to find what you were looking for, and UIs that change menus situationally suck. A UI that “predicts” what I want and constantly dicks with my content, so that when it’s wrong I have to search around for what I really want because it’s now buried in some random location… sounds like hell.

Legislation is so far behind these issues, I expect AP to be replaced by whatever comes next before legal considerations have any impact. And what’s Joe Smallserver going to do? Sue Google?

I agree with your theory, but while in theory, theory is the same as practice, in practice, it doesn’t.

1P gives me anxiety. It’s on my no-fly list.