By “they”, I meant the switches.

But I’m just a brain in a jar and you are a simulation implanted in my consciousness by the switches so it doesn’t really matter.

You’re assuming they don’t control something in the room with the light, or they could control the lights in your room and the light you’re trying to check .

Could be referring to one specific location, most likely just a set up for the joke

That is pretty obviously the tough outer layer of an onion, not plastic. They didn’t take off enough layers of the onion. No one is going to wrap onions in plastic because that would actually make them spoil faster.

In most languages I’ve seen - is both a unary negation operator and a subtraction operator depending on context. So it would negate an integer literal or a variable in this context.

I got laid off from my software job then took a physical labor job to make ends meet. I got promoted to management and used my software skills to automate most of my job. This is my recommended career path.

Lucky me I got both!

Fuck, just fuck time.

We stick with it at this point because it’s not worth the hassle of changing it, and while points related to our axial tilt or the eccentricity of our orbit are less arbitrary it ultimately doesn’t matter. It is about the time that has passed and one point in the orbit is as good as another.

https://youtu.be/xq0XNILIYTw?si=q7ptO3AWuEjAtaWh

Onomatopoeia

You mean one of the puppets from the Neverending story?

I don’t see nothing wrong with a little

Someone should write a book about that, or even a series of books. A series I should reread before the 5th book comes out.

Aren’t microwaves Faraday cages? Can a phone get a signal out of one?

The ton is not a unit of brightness

“What he meant is Cannibal Island is actually a peninsula”

Jirls jive jifts of jilded jirders