Ya win some, ya learn some.

There were just enough pixels in the first panel that I was able to find the video. I haven’t watched it myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTZalI5GQik

Looks like $250 to me? 50 grand for 200 devices?

They do/did here in Virginia. They’re “skill games” or something. Some law changed it something because they’ve been turned off with a sign taped to the screen for a while now.

That’s great. One of mine is remembering that the Guy on a buffalo videos exist.

I went through the same path. Gmail came to mind first, then eBay, then a MUD I haven’t actually played in ages but double check that my account is there now and then.

It always is.

It’s not even consistent within the US. I’ve known people who, if they said that sentence over the phone it would sound a lot like “E as in A”

Be the change you want to see in the word.

Is it just me, or do programmers only come in “lightweight” and “Rivals Þor in trying to drink the oceans dry” varieties?

Somehow I manage to be both. My alcohol tolerance is very high (which is great… I like a little buzz but never want to be actually drunk), but for me, one toke is over the line.

No, that’s a person who always believes they’re sick. You’re thinking of hemophiliac.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate

Just like within actual government there’s supposed to be balance of power between different branches or houses, there’s this idea that the role of the press is to hold governments accountable.

(More of an ELI12, but that’s the gist of the idea)

There’s not a complete sentence after the period, so no.

I hadn’t seen the spam myself, but I think it’s to do with this.

I’ve heard that the issue for some cats isn’t that they can see the bottom, but that their whiskers hit the side of the bowl and that’s uncomfortable.

Hasbro was founded in 1923 and has a history of over a hundred years.

Yep, that’s how years work.

He wrote a decent number of books aimed at kids. There are the Tiffany Aching books in Discworld for a start, as well as non discworld books like Only You Can Save Mankind or the Bromeliad books.

I wouldn’t stop a 10yo from reading any of the discworld books if they’re enjoying them, mind. There’s lots to find funny anyway, and we all had to start building our “reference vocabulary” somewhere.

Amusingly, there’s an issue with the app I use for youtube that means I’m stuck with a dubbed version in a language I don’t speak.

Ha. Thanks for doing my homework for me. I honestly don’t know what my original sources were… I’ve been aware of the existence of “brothel laws” for ages. I lived in a large intentional community (read: commune, but avoiding sexual connotations at least in a US context) for a long time and running afoul of brothel laws in the past was something I learned about there.

They used to be called brothel laws. They’re usually written as a limit to how many adults who aren’t related can share an address.