They’re predators, but they’re the “I’m adapted to hunt in one environment but I hang out in another” kind of predator, so they’re these amazing fish seeking torpedoes in the water, but they’re these delightfully ridiculous footballs in dinner jackets waddling around on land. And they’re licensed under the GPL which is always cool.

Or a capybara that is just sick of that pelican’s shit.

I was specifically referring to this which proposed many of the changes you’re talking about, but very few were actually adopted.

The Voice Of America has a standardized Simplified English they use for broadcasting to regions where English isn’t commonly spoken.

There was also that attempt at destupifying English spelling, a very small amount of which stuck. Color.

Nothing. I’ve heard it used occasionally for decades.

🇺🇸 English

Reminds me of Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey. “Dude! Hell sucks!”

I kinda miss Pontiac. For my entire lifetime, they were “What if GM products were just a little more ridiculous?”

The Trans Am is a Z-28 with mutton chops. Prove me wrong.

Untitled Goose Car.

I give Minnesota permission to annex one county from any surrounding state. Which is it?

Don’t (at least some) frogs use their eyes to swallow anyway? Like, when they close their eyes they get sucked into their head, which decreases the volume of the mouth, which pushes food into the throat?

I was actually taught how to use spreadsheets in Microsoft Works. Which was the cheaper home alternative to the Office suite, that was good enough to run a small business out of.

Any relation to Brainfuck?

The banning of CFCs due to their environmental impacts, retooling the aerosol and refrigerant industries, is what it looks like when we have a functioning world society.

There are adults now who were born after that and don’t remember a time when we could behave that way, so they have every right to be cynical.

It’s…sort of not a question of easy vs hard. Why would anyone make a hard programming language?

It’s more about picking a language that is suitable for what you want to do with it.

The thing about Python is, it’s a smartass. Treat it like a smartass and it’ll get shit done, because someone who is a smartass already wrote what you want to do in C, you just have to call it by name.

Most use propane as a propellant now.

Name me another chemical engineer that could be argued did more harm. I don’t think all of Monsanto with agent orange and Roundup has done more than the TEL and CFC fuckup.

Where’s he buried? How long is the line to piss on his headstone?

Not when all governments have been captured by oil tycoons it isn’t.

This device converts the data stream from a parallel format to a serial format. Fish swimming in the data stream enter simultaneously, but emerge one by one, both in little-endian notation.