And how do you know this? Is it because someone said “this is true” and then someone else was then able to say “no it isn’t - and here’s the evidence”.

Or across an 8" ocean.

ce n’est pas un grille-pain.

About fifteen years ago I was overtaking a truck on the motorway when one of its tyres exploded. Took out one of my side windows. The haulage company dealt with it well but I got the impression it wasn’t the first time they’d had to fix that specific issue.

DISCUSS YOUR CRIMES 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓷𝓸-𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝔀𝓪𝓽𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰.

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“I am alive and well, says the lying dead horse with Tuberculosis.”

• Ancient Greek Proverb

Right. It’s a peli-can not a peli-don’t.

Perfect.

I learned about the Oxford comma from my parents, Ayn Rand and God.

It didn’t seem like it at the time but I had a very strange upbringing.

Another updoot for Qobuz. Very happy with it, and the migration process was even better for me than as you describe it. Also, I didn’t think I’d give a shit about it the higher-quality codecs but they’re actually amazing. Big fan, A+++, would Qobuz again.

at least since digital video

Right. Even back in the eighties UK broadcasters were “upscaling” American NTSC 480i60 shows to 576i50. The results were varied. High-ticket shows like Friends and Fraiser looked great, albeit a bit soft and oversaturated, while live news feeds looked terrible. If you’ve never seen it, The Day Today has a perfect example of what a lot of US programmes lookd like converted to PAL.

Kinda, but also that Clippy (real name Clippit, as it happens) was included as a feature that was genuinely intended to be helpful. Like, that’s not to say it was successful, or appreciated, but that it came from a time when you could buy a product in the expectation that you’d own it, you could keep it and it’d work for you, not for someone else.

I feel obligated to point out that the “stupid 3D interface” was actually a REAL stupid 3D interface. Someone at Sun Microsystems genuinely thought we’d enjoy browsing our filesystems by flying over a virtual city. It really was a UNIX system as she said, just one with a batshit frontend.

My problem with the whole thing is well expressed by Bojack Horseman.

An IT technician who spends their entire career in air-conditioned offices in their home country but happens to be employed by the army is worthy of adoration, special treatment and prioritisation, but obviously a nurse saving lives on a daily basis and facing routine abuse from violent drunks and psychotic nutcases can fuck right off because they work at a privately-owned hospital.

Drawing a circle around the armed forces saying “these people are deserving of unquestionable praise and arbitrary benefits” is the same as saying “no-one else is” and it’s insulting to the intelligence of everyone involved.