Apart from the potentially dramatic ecologicial concerns, I have it on good, if somewhat dated, authority that El Niño is Spanish for ‘the Niño.’

you could also use a colon

Now, with the caveat that prescriptive grammar is kind of stupid, you’d need to remove the word ‘that’ to make the colon a “correct” choice.

We shouldn’t tease. Right now I think he wants his political career banally centrist. When we make too much fun, they go full Tuberville or Walker!

Remember, anytime a New Yorker cartoon doesn’t land, just substitute the caption with “Christ, what an asshole.” You’re guaranteed a befuddled chuckle at minimum.

Great song (Banditos) by a great band (The Refreshments).

Low hanging fruit, but White and Nerdy by the great one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw

• Earl Grey Tea
• Klingon language
• Kirk vs Picard
• More?

Like, she was cool with the slaughter of sand people, sorta.

I mean, that’s kinda enough… 😬

“I killed them all. They’re dead. Every single one of them. And not just the men… but the women… and the children too.” Followed immediately by “To be angry is to be human” and a few scenes later by “I truly… deeply love you… and before we die, I want you to know.”

If the meme fits, wear it, Ms Padme…

Of the president, Kimmel said: “I don’t love him. I don’t hate him, either. I feel sorry for him. He obviously didn’t get hugged a lot.”

I’m not going to go looking, but I assume this provoked at least one “troof” from Dear Cheeto.

Even in the absence of right-to-die laws, from what I’ve seen with older relatives, once the healthcare providers know what’s what and divert you to hospice care, the drugs take care of the visible pain and, frankly, consciousness. These are generally practical, kind people who understand the odds and don’t want to see suffering.

I get it. We skew older here, but somebody playing around on the fuzzy edges of spelling a gen-z meme is not illiteracy. To be clear, I am also a clueless old, but I thought I’d look it up before piling on.

In these difficult times, holocaust deniers of all nations and creeds need to make sure they stick together.

I’m deep into my 40s, and I’m one of those. I can get up to 70 words per minute for short stretches, but it’s still a weird dance that combines muscle memory and hand-eye coordination.

I did learn just enough to know to hover my hands and keep my arms at a good posture, so I’ve never had any RSI from typing. That also may be partly because that I’m so inconsistent that I don’t get enough of the R for RSI, LOL.

It’s not exactly the same as an express line, but IIRC Starbucks already has a process where if you order brewed black coffee, the cashier dispenses it for you before taking the next customer, rather than turning it over to the baristas’ queue. There are so many things you can say about Starbucks, but failing to understand efficiency is rarely one of them.

I legit love that for you, and I can sneak up to what you’re describing, but it never quite lands and I eventually get worn out by trying. I’m in awe of some of the Banjo pickers I’ve heard, but it doesn’t hit me in the soul like a clever turn of phrase that rings true to life. To that end, I’m more of a Townes Van Zandt or Todd Snider or Robert Earl Keen guy, though I know Keen in particular loves him some bluegrass.

So I have finally started seeing some viable replacements, after a several weeks long partial outage due to changing infrastructure at GitHub, but for years now, the custom keyboard design community has relied on a single person’s site, https://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/ , to design keyboard layouts, and to generate properly labeled json exports to set up the most popular firmware.

Watterson was constantly chafing under the limitations on newspaper strips, and one of his “sabbaticals” was basically a one-man strike until the syndicate reluctantly strong-armed the papers into giving him more layout flexibility for the Sunday strips.

I like bluegrass, and I’m very fond of some individual bluegrass and bluegrass-inflected songs and acts, but I’ve never been able to make myself love bluegrass.

My background makes me much more interested in lyrics, which I flatter myself to be a decent judge of, but similar to certain prog rock acts, the charms of high-tempo virtuosity are just lost on me.

42 hours

it lives about twenty minutes away from me

nm 🤣

In small but statistically and financially significant numbers, yes, absolutely.

The bigger paradigm shift will be moving corporate users to per-token pricing, and that’s the one that will really kill Anthropic and OpenAI (and maybe Oracle) if it doesn’t go how they need, but there are way more actual people spending money on AI than one might think… or hope.

This is what I do, except the jelly is on both sides of a third and toasted piece of bread.