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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flat housing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These are mostly code words designed to keep those pesky foreigners confused.

  Pavement comes from the latin root “pavire” meaning to tread down. Vehicles drive on the road, a word which may stem from a proto-indo-european root meaning “to ride”. If there’s one thing we like more than tea, it’s tradition, and millennia old words really scratch that itch. Besides, only crabs walk on a sidewalk, or do you lot all shuffle along like you’re trying to get through a narrow gap?

  Windscreen is, again, perfectly logical when you consider that in the 14th century “screen” referred to a barrier that might be used to block draughts. If it was a good enough word 700 years ago, it’s good enough now by Jove!

  I must take exception to your description of a jumper being a shirt. A jumper does not open at the front, and so cannot possibly be compared to a shirt, whose defining feature is the opening, typically finished with a placket on each side, unless it’s a tee-shirt, but it’s too chilly to wear those here, so we don’t talk about them. The garment you are referring to is, of course, a cardigan. Both the jumper and the cardigan do share the trait of being a made of a heavier material, or knitted, often by your Granny, out of heavy wool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flat housing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oi! Knock it off bruv!

  I’ll have you know that the u in colour is very important. It nake the other o sound more like a u. Furthermore, check is a perfectly good word, but you cant pay with it. For that you need a cheque, and you can’t pay with those in most places now either. You car would have a bonnet and a boot, but a lorry would only have the former. Decending in a lift is no more unexpected than doing so in an elevator, and it significantly fewer letters too.

  Now, having sorted out these minor linguistic quirks, would you care for a nice cup of tea and a chat about the weather?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That’s just unrealistic… too few poop breaks.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He didn’t say anything about dealing with them, that’s an optional add-on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Flock has done its part in soaking up public anger at pervasive surveillance, and can now be left to fail. Companies like Axon will step in to the breach, be slightly less obviously awful, and receive much less public pushback.

  This isn’t going away until the very governments that benefit from it pass laws against it. For there to be any chance of that happening there has to be even greater public pushback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The hug life chose me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is the soup wearing a cardigan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A tale as old as time...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Belle didn’t mind a bit of rollplay to spice things up, but she was not impressed by Beast’s suggestion of how she carry out her investigation. That wasn’t standard issue equipment at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was cold this morning. You all know what this means.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will never understand why we go through the motions with these things

  There is no obligation for you to “go through the motions”, others chose to do so for things like “fun”, and as a form of socialising. Rather than making a pointlessly sour comment, you could easily have ignored the post, likely making both your, and everyone elses, day better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨great to know!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A bigger screen can make many tasks easier. I’d quite like to be able to see a decently large terminal window and a keyboard at the same time for instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poole Old Lifeboat Museum shuts after protesters target volunteers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  During the incident, the RNLI said it also helped to ensure the safety of anti-migrant protesters who had entered the sea off Portsmouth.

  Shouldn’t have bothered. If they don’t want lifeboat services, they shouldn’t get in to situations where they need them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, you mean workers *don't* love the automatic dumbass machines that constantly threaten their jobs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. Whilst I very much hope that people are turning against using LLMs, that’s not what this chart shows. As you allude to, it’s just the sentiment of reviews mentioning AI, of which a large number are probably complaining about the results, rather than expressing opposition to the use of LLMs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poetry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Regardless of your status at parties, I actually prefer your wording, it seems to scan a little more easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CAH at it again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that Höcke probably looks at that and thinks “It was a good start”. People like that feel no shame for this sort of thing, and want more of it. It could be a powerful message to others though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Knife horse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a horse made of knifes, in the shape of a knife, that wields knives. It has difficulty getting through screening at airports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich ppl live longer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a horse person, but having been around several, my understanding is that horses don’t joke about that sort of thing. They take it very seriously indeed.

  That, and, as the previous commenter said, get spooked by a rogue crisp packet, their own shadow, or the fact the sun has come up again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aurafarming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The great circle of life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bada Boom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just got to rig up a lever to the trigger and you might even stop the car before impact. I imagine that’d give the bike a bit of a shove too, so maybe you need one on the other side too, to balance the forces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bada Boom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes Awesomely Dramatic Destruction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's taking forever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s a c-section they don’t sedate the mother if at all possible, because it can sedate the baby too. It takes them a lot longer to recover from, and increases risk a fair bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Works like a charm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I…I think you’re supposed to use uncooked rice for this. What you do with it afterwards is no-one’s business but you’re own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chomp chomp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good grief! Please mark this NSFW. You can’t just go posting pictures like that without warning.

  /insert train carriage copypasta here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mistake⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought you were joking, but I had to check, and, no, there really is a character called Dogwelder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Energy Vampire⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Text it to both people. See who gets home first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I passionately support this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The romantic bit is not growling at them when it happens. True wuv!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hehe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t always go to the vet, but when I do I chill in my travel box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line cook quietly handed me this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what the average throughput of a human is, or how long people typically spend drinking at costco, but it still seems like that’s more liquid than you could get through them in a reasonable meal break.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line cook quietly handed me this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s for a family, right?

  Right?

  How do you physically fit that much liquid in to a functioning human?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smug bastard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh go on, as a treat you can go to and fro, or back and forth, but not both, you understand? Well, ok, maybe just a little.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smug bastard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s none of those, he just tilts from side to side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All aboard the Pythagorean Express⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is an acute observation.