I’d argue the biggest change was last year. Because of the banning/restrictions of sulfuric emissions from ships trading in the Pacific, a huge quantity of smog was cleared from the atmosphere. Unfortunately for all of us, that smog had been reflecting some sunlight and depressing the effects of climate change in the short term. While those sulfur-based emissions clear out of our atmosphere in as little as 2-3 weeks, carbon emissions take centuries to fully clear out of the atmosphere.

In other words, we had been unintentionally geoengineering the climate to be slightly cooler before 2023. That’s why it was such a huge jump in temperature last year and has no signs of reversing course. The good news about this is that it means that we can geoengineer our climate to be cooler in the short term in order to prevent greater catastrophe because we already were. The bad news is that we likely will have to.

Did what I say remind you of him? I thought he was primarily famous for abusive language.

Respect, like trust, is earned, never demanded and is easily lost.

You can make others fear you with force, but if they do they’ll never properly respect you.

Talking in oblique metaphors like the way you did to the person you banned won’t help them learn from their mistake either.

No, cats do intend to show you their butthole. It’s the highest form of trust and respect a cat can give you. They’re basically saying, “I’m going to show you my weakest spot so you know there’s no secrets between us”

That and his quip “pass the bill” when Vance was complaining about immigration

There are powered extensions, so one of those might work, but a hub is certainly a comparable price and a more compact solution

Both Mint and Pop are based on Ubuntu and neither one ships with snap. Both use Flatpak and native packages instead. Mint also has LMDE, which is based on Debian, if you want Debian-but-more-beginner-friendly

Yes, it did need the /s.

Good on you for reflecting on your ineffective communication and correcting course.

I guess don’t know how to break it to you that saying “f you” is not creative without being on a high horse then.

I give you a decent counterargument with some bonus alliteration and all you can muster is a strawman?

Also, speaking of cope. To say that a person using curse words instead of a witty remark is somehow smart cause smart people use curse words doesn’t sound right but I don’t how else to interpret the ETA you made.

You’ve reversed cause and effect here. I didn’t say that all people who curse are smart. I said smart people curse.

You’ve argued from a cliché and from a strawman misrepresentation of my original point. I hope someday you look back and cringe at your small-minded pretentiousness in this thread.

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Scientific studies have shown that curse words relieve physical pain better than any alternatives.

So there are some situations where anything else is an objectively worse option.

ETA: I’m willing to bet the reason this is being downvoted is due to the holier-than-thou attitude you’re copping, OP. It’s also something of a classist-coded cliché to claim that people who curse lack vocabulary, intelligence, education, or creativity. This is, of course counter to the fact that studies have shown that people with higher intelligence are more likely to use salty language.

For real

There are websites where you can sign someone up for as much spam at once as possible

Happy to help! I love uncommon words and love to see them used correctly

Vis a vis is used in an uncommon way here. It typically means “in relation to”, “compared with” or “regarding”

“The poodle needs more grooming vis a vis most other breeds of dog”

“The poodle needs more grooming compared to most other breeds of dog”

The use of erudite is slightly wrong. It’s an adjective meaning knowledgeable, but you used it like a noun.

“Steve is really erudite”

“Steve is really well-read”

Jellyfin is adding a new MediaSegments API/plugin, which should allow any arbitrary segment of any piece of media to be skipped on (eventually) all Jellyfin clients.

I think of them as tasting like banana-melon

And Generic Ossified Pedants

It’s both

There’s a series of novels kinda based around that idea. Magic 2.0 is the name of the series. Basically various hackers from different time periods discover a file that controls the whole universe and learn how to edit it with code/macros and become wizards because of it