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Spicy food on top of interview nerves? Don’t get me wrong, I love a good curry, but for me that’d be tempting fate.

And it wouldn’t be my shirt I’d be concerned about soiling.

Reminds me of dev.null as an e-mail address, but perhaps the service is more useful(?). I had access to the back-end of the mail server in question and it literally had /dev/null in the configuration.

And yes, it ate any e-mails sent to it.

Sure, they look like rodents, but they’re more closely related to hedgehogs (also not rodents) believe it or not.

And if you go back to find the most recent common ancestor of bats and rodents, you’ll end up including things as diverse as humans and tigers as being “the same” as well.

We’ll have to get rid of the politicians in the back pocket of those corporations first.

There’s a reason the new legislation doesn’t say anything about them.

The posts that I’ve seen so far seem to be lacking context that’s available when visiting the original on the home instance.

That is, these posts look like the first comment made by the OP in a thread below their main submission, but the main submission isn’t visible.

Very disorienting. I hope there’s a fix on the way.

OP seemed to suggest that these dreams are, or quickly get to being, beyond their control. Nonetheless, even daydreaming at the wrong time can be perilous.

I say this as someone who has never had good attention control.

Frankly, I’m torn on this one. I have a few fantasies that I like to pretend are real because I think they prevent me from falling off the edge into the chasm of complete insanity, while at the same time recognising that it’s not strictly sane to maintain the fantasy in the first place.

But this is something I consciously maintain. There are no elements completely beyond my control like visual hallucination.

The closest I get is the occasional flash of something I’ve been doing for a while if I close my eyes (basically the Tetris effect ), and maybe the occasional auditory equivalent if it goes quiet.

And yet, in my dreams I’ve had full blown conversations with people where I haven’t expected what they’re going to say next, so I suppose if all the above combined into one, I might have a similar experience to you, OP… but then I’d have to strongly considering contacting a medical or psychological professional.

Lapsing uncontrolled into a dream - however comforting that dream might be - when out in the world, could be dangerous for you or people around you. Imagine if you’re driving. Or controlling some other form of machinery. Or heck, even pushing a shopping cart.

Previous solution:

“I don’t know.”

“Why”

“Because it is not possible to know everything.”

“Why”

And repeat until the judge declares stalemate, the baby takes up a more meaningful line of questioning, or the baby needs a nap.

I can’t speak for OP, but I’ve pretty much always had a separate wallet for just cards. Notes and coinage go in the more traditional wallet.

That said, it had got to the point that most of my payments, even when I went places, were usually by card. Even the bus.

Most comic superheroes derive the energy for their powers from some external dimension, or in the case of Superman, the Sun.

This pushes the questions onto how things work rather than where the energy comes from. And good luck getting answers there. Writers often contradict themselves.

And I seem to remember there being a story (possibly non-canon?) where Superman is forced to turn a handle forever to generate “free” energy to power the planet.

As soon as it begins, I’ll put on that one rubber horse mask that’s been a meme on and off for the last 20 or more years.

That in itself might be enough.

If not I may be forced to make horse noises. There’s actually a sound that’s called “blowing” I think is perfect for the situation, so I could technically “blow” the interview and still get the job if they’re sufficiently unhinged.

Were it not for the potential for criminal damage, I would also stand abruptly before making the noise and then, with suitable timing, violently kick the chair backwards.

I think that could all fit nicely within 30 seconds.

Or, you know, I could just tell them the truth that my mental state is incredibly fragile and the tiniest amount of work stress or office politics is going to be detrimental to both myself and the company in very short order and that I should not have been sent there in the first place… but where’s the fun in that?

The brief was to fail the interview, not also get yourself a criminal record, but I suppose you could float this as a hypothetical in the interview itself and not actually carry it out for more interesting (and less destructive) results.

You’re confusing two things.

The aboriginal peoples of North and South America (the continents) are descendents of Asiatic people who crossed the Bering Strait from Asia during the last ice age. That was over 10,000 years ago.

These include, but aren’t limited to, the Canadian First Nations - both inland and Inuit, many nations of Native Americans in North America, and in South America, the peoples of the Amazon, the Maya (who still exist), the Incas, Aztecs and so on.

Then, from roughly 500 years ago and then for a century or three, there was a significant amount of admixture both genetically and culturally with Hispanic colonists that came over the Atlantic from Europe.

Yeah. I think I have a preference for a three tier system that’s Y.R.P (e.g. 25.0.2; “Year”, Release within year, Patch number), so yes, I could imagine the third level being incremented the following year in an emergency.

And if two-tier is paramount, tricks like (R+1)*100+P will work provided there aren’t going to be 100 patches per release. (e.g. 25.102)

I’ve seen this story.

We get comfortable. Complacent even. People forget the old ways.

Then the machines go wrong and we’ll have no idea how to stop them.

Not necessarily a Skynet scenario, but something else that overrides the biosphere worse than we’re already doing on our own.

Not sure how this plays into human politics though. There’s a strong chance we’ll still find a way to launch nukes at each other and end it that way instead.

That’s not how you floss.

squeaky squeaky squeaky

This is one of the scientific plot holes in The Fly. Or at least the 1980s version. The head-swap version has other problems.

I wouldn’t want to keep the 11 in there. The entire reason for (hypothetically) making this change is to get away from the old version number and any potential confusion it might cause.

I also prefer smaller version numbers, so “subtract 2000 from year” works better for me (and there’s no better time to take advantage of the fact this produces sensible numbers), but I can see why the full year might be preferable for someone else.

Odd question: What would be the fallout from changing the version numbering to be more like the change recently made by LibreOffice? That is, making it be related to the year number rather than the current system.

The reason I ask is that Linux has been and will be getting refugees from Windows 10 and 11, and the timing of the current version numbers is somewhat unfortunate and potentially confusing in that regard.

I’m aware I may be imagining a problem that won’t actually exist in any meaningful amount.

There’s also the potential problem of Microsoft following suit with whatever follows Windows 11 being “Windows 2029” or something, but it wouldn’t be too hard to deliberately throw in another jump if that were to happen at the loss of some synchronicity.

Wine 49 certainly has a ring to it!

I recently (re?)learned that “you” was the plural form and only became a formal form under the influence of French.

Basically, “you” was “ye”/“y’all”/“youse”/“yins” before any of those existed, and the others only came into existence when “you” became formal and stopped filling that niche.

And some dialects, including some very populous ones like standard British English, still don’t have a plural “you” as a result of that change of usage. The subsequent shift to being generic only cemented the problem.

“You” regains its plurality in things like “all of you”, “you all”, “you lot” (not really for the politest of company) and “you <number>” (e.g. “You four, go sit over there”) for a group of people, but on its own it’s ambiguous.