Ditto. I’d have so few friends, not to mention my wife and daughter (no males in the house other than me) so things would be pretty confusingly lonely, pretty quick!
At least OP was pretty clear that all people of the opposite sex were to have disappeared so I can still have my dog.
Nobody’s said Lenny yet? Ok. I’ll say Lenny.
Kinda related, I studied in Spain for a semester. Was taking with my fellow American roommate about the debate of if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. Our host mom’s daughter’s boyfriend (Cuban, fwiw) overheard, and we told him about the “controversy” in the US but all 3 of us agreed it was a fruit. Host mom overheard us and asked what we were talking about, and the Cuban told her. “Well yeah, of course it’s a vegetable”
I couldn’t understand every word but when I could tell they were arguing about some vegetables having seeds or something like that I knew I spread something.
Very well said. I think at the end of the day, the human element is too easy to overlook and that’s a problem. We have one bot, a search engine, keeping an eye open for content. SEO wants to stand out for that bot, so it demands content (and in a certain way) be created so the search engine picks it up… But that takes effort, so we have another bot creating content to get the attention of another. And the thing a person wants just becomes an afterthought and dead Internet theory is that much more real
I have a bit of a compulsion to scan the grocery store for marked down fancy cheeses and bakery stuff. I’ve tried some pretty awesome stuff I never would have gotten otherwise.
If only we had someone to judge if those reasons are valid instead of you assuming you can make your own rules
If everything is running on renewables, cool. Until then, there’s still the opportunity cost.
Hard bread with hard ingredients (like meat chunks or salami), soft bread with soft ingredients (like egg salad). I’d call a burger medium soft, and ciabatta is too hard for that
This was the same company that refused to ship to Rhode Island, suggesting you had their product shipped to a friend on “the mainland” who could then forward it
Yes! I’m amazed at how few responses here bring up the lack of attraction in a mall. Nearly every square foot has been given up for dumb kiosks for cell phone cases or something like that. There’s just nothing to give some warm fuzzies about visiting - a water feature, a kids play area… Heck, I grew up near the first indoor mall and at one point they had a giant parakeet cage. If one landed on your finger, you could keep the bird.
Ironically, you could use the meme template to say that somehow
English pronunciation can be difficult, though through tough thorough thought, it can generally be figured out
dessert climate
We have our time zone “origin” at the prime meridian (Greenwich, UK). As you move one time zone to the east, local time is (generally) an hour later. As you go west, it’s an hour earlier. As each time zone spans each direction of the globe, going an ~hour earlier/later along the way, they’re eventually going to meet. One direction lost 12 hours, the other gained 12 hours. That’s the international date line, where they are 12-(-12)=24 hours apart.
They could have put them in the same time zone (it is a human construct, after all) but since they are associated with two countries, it makes sense to keep each island with its respective country. Since it’s right around the opposite side of the prime meridian, it means you’re roughly a day apart.
As long as you gave them the full experience with tossing a disc in the trash because of a buffer overrun. Damn Nero software!
CD: the kind you buy from a store with content already on it. Mass-produced with methods and equipment not available in the consumer electronics market, because it was never really necessary. Also includes CD-ROM (Read Only Memory) for data/files read by a computer instead of music alone
CD-R (Recordable): can be written (“burned”) once and only once. As mentioned in another comment, it may deteriorate over time because of how the disc gets written, but by the time that happens you’ll probably forget you had that disc
CD-RW (ReWriteable): Can be written like a CD-R, but you can also erase it and write on it again. More expensive, and I believe some readers had trouble with it, but in a world where data storage was expensive and small this was still a useful thing to have
DVDs had a similar thing, except there were variants where the - was a +, eg DVD+R and DVD+RW. I can’t remember the difference there, but it was pretty trivial. There was also a relatively obscure DVD-RAM that had random access memory. That was pretty cool as well, kind of an alternative to DVR that wasn’t a VHS tape. No need to lose everything you had if you wanted to add more to it
Sometimes I think about changing out my 13-year-old 1080p TV for something with 4k. Then I see crap like this and hope it never dies.