We’re all going to go extinct. Given the current state of the world, maybe it’s for the best.

Perhaps when the next time a sentient species evolves on Earth and takes over the whole damned planet and builds societies and technology, they’re not so psychotic as we are.

Oh jeez. I forgot about that. I had that running on my DS back in the day from a GBA flashcart with a big-ass CompactFlash card sticking out the bottom. Good times.

For those squares at the bottom to qualify as squares, they’d have to be… you know… squares.

You don’t put a chess board on a round table and say the area around the board is another “square” do you?

Incidentally, that’s why square tables are banned at the highest levels of play.

I imagine there was a time when this wasn’t obscure, but I’m guessing people today don’t remember Caldera OpenLinux. That was the first Linux distro I installed/used. A guy from church gave his copy.

Caldera eventually became SCO. But I’m pretty sure I was using Caldera OpenLinux before the whole Novell patent suit thing.

Serious answer: That’s why it’s so important to recreate proprietary game engines as FOSS. Like OpenMW, for instance.

Short version: cable is more optimized for sending everyone the same content at the same time. (And all users connected to cable get all channels all the time, even if they’re only watching one or two at the time.) Internet is made for each user getting what they ask for when they ask for it.

Either technology can be used for either use case, but they were originally built for different purposes and so are optimized differently.

Just like a subway train would make a pretty crappy private one-person vehicle for commuting to work and the grocery store. As would a fleet of cars be crappy for public mass transit.

Nope. Lots of stuff commonly believed by Christians isn’t from the Bible. (Though sometimes they’ll do a lot of mental gymnastics to assert that what they believe is from “the only reasonable interpretation” of the Bible.)

Just a few other things commonly believed by Christians not (or at least only dubiously) from the Bible:

• The seven deadly sins
• The nine circles of hell
• The seven levels of heaven
• Transubstantiation
• The trinity

What icon pack? (Is this post supposed to be a link?)

Edit: Ah. Now there’s an image.

I’ve seen this happen with coworkers of mine. Folks who never did any work. And slipped under the radar for many years. at least two (and one other to a lesser extent) come to mind.

Hammer’s jumping to conclusions. That’s clearly a self-tapping screw.

Oh shit. Don’t scare me like that. I’m in the middle of a show on Freevee through Prime Video. I was afraid it was going to become unavailable.

(Hell on wheels. Really good. 10/10 would recommend.)

Is there supposed to be a link?

You’re thinking of EMACS.

(Just a joke. I’m kidding people. It’s funny. Ha ha. For real.)

Oh, I guess one thing about 4b. Thinking more about 4b, I find I can’t really imagine it being said “you got you some candy” instead of “you gotchu some candy” or “you gotcha some candy”.

Also, leaving out the personal dative feels too formal to use with young kids unless being at least a little stern.

Oh, and aside from the obvious differences in the pronouns involved (“she” only refers to female subjects, “it” only for “things”… can you tell I’m not that knowledgeable on linguistics jargon, lol) I don’t really see much difference in who is referred to in those examples, nor in contrasting them with equivalent examples without the dative except for the aforementioned differences in formality and “playfulness”.

$1 says he begs Trump for a pardon. Another $0.25 says Trump does it.

Right? I kinda want to try those wafers with meat and cheese on them. Like a eucharist lunchable.

Also, as a kid, I always thought it was unfair that the priest got to finish off what was left over.

This isn’t a Linux thing exactly, but I know the QMK firmware for keyboards has a feature called “mouse keys” that let you control your mouse cursor and click and scroll and such exclusively via keyboard keys.

Native (midwestern American) English speaker here.

They all sound a little humorous to me. As if the speaker is speaking kindof playfully. Maybe as if to a young child, or perhaps putting on a purposefully-funny (southern American?) accent.

But aside from that, they all sound quite natural to me and I could see myself using any/all of them if I was in a relatively playful mood.

Even 5c doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. (Maybe a pet of unknown gender got into the bag of candy? “Control your damned dog! It broke into my kitchen and it got it some candy out of my cupboard!”)

That said, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen an asterisk on a “grammatically incorrect” sentence/construction and thought “why did they mark that unacceptable?”