A conspiracy is always possible of course, but people really do tend to put off what isn’t an immediate problem until it’s a disaster.

Fukushima springs to mind. The plant had been warned more than a decade before the disaster that an earthquake in the wrong place would result in catastrophe and didn’t do anything about it, and lo and behold…

On that note, I’ve often wondered how big text-based Wikipedia would be if you pared it down to the most accessed articles, and cut out the articles on, say, the highest-scoring curling players from Zimbabwe in 2007.

At what point does it stop being a camera with attached lens and start being a lens with a camera dangling off it?

Oh no! Guess I better continue to use Libre Office instead.

Among the dwarves, anyway. Most humans seem to prefer a sausage inna bun, though the way Dibbler’s food is described, I think the dwarves might be better off.

I kinda miss the old days of stupid case mods

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I like how the team being described as “enterprising” in this context makes it sound like they set out with the express intent of recording a shark ménage à trois.

As an added bonus, you get overt spyware to wear around your neck so it can listen to and log your every conversation.

Benny Hill intensifies

Yeah, if having the cutoff bits of metal in the wood isn’t a problem, I’ve done the same thing with an oscillating tool with a metal saw

“Don’t donate your organs! They’ll take your organs!”

“I-- uh… yes?”

Vibe coder: DO NOT DELETE THE DATABASE. DO NOT DELETE THE DATABASE. DO NOT DELETE THE DATABASE.

Chatgpt: All I heard was “delete the database” three times.

Interesting, only instances I can think of for 2nd person writing are those old “choose your own adventure” books.

Depends on if we start to see musclebros running around wearing 50 lb turbans.

Or the ones where people point out how inconsistent JS is with adding strings to numbers.

Yeah, maybe don’t do arithmetic on numbers as strings?

It is with Juma

There are a lot of euphemisms in The Sims so they can keep their T rating, with sex being called woo-hoo probably being the biggest one. The other big one I can think of is that alcohol is referred to as “Juice”

Holy shit yes, one of the best sandwiches in existence