“A deadly fungus”. . .
“resistance to all types of antibiotics”. . .
😞
Look, I don’t expect a journalist to know these things, but I do expect an EDITOR to at least go through a basic fact check before the first sentence is completed.
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1·22 hours agoYeah, weird how he skipped the universally acclaimed game of the year.
It’s not #1, it’s alphabetical. 😉
12·1 day agoHoly shit, Chubby Checker is still alive? Wow!
161·1 day ago“Giovanni Rosales Espinoza”
Cue Trump complaining about immigrants in 3-2-1…
How about soda drinkers?
Are they communists because they are red or because they have seized the means of production? 🤔
Bonus: When you become a teacher you start having nightmares about being asked to teach classes in which you have no knowledge, with very little or no prep time.
Oh, wait, no, that ACTUALLY HAPPENS, ALL THE TIME.
I once was given 15 minutes to prep a 1 hour lecture on how 401Ks work. I was a computer instructor.
They said it was the best presentation they ever had.
🤷
This is like asking “Who would win in a fight, a submarine or a jet?”
The two combat styles aren’t comparable. Star Trek is based on naval battles, in fact, IMHO, the very best OG Trek episode, “Balance of Terror” was based on a WWII set submarine combat novel and movie called “The Enemy Below”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Below_(novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Below
Lucas specifically wanted Star Wars to emulate air combat and dogfights.
692·2 days agoSo manufacturers can bill you monthly for the same features…
Interesting looking at the chart how low-rated the non-Fox Republican sources are. But also, OANN doesn’t seem to be listed either…
Next on my reading list:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/588857/toms-crossing-by-mark-z-danielewski/
1,232 pages.
12·3 days ago“The last guy nearly ruined this place
he didn’t know what to do with it.
If you think this country’s bad off now,
just wait 'til I get through with it.”- Groucho Marx, Duck Soup, 1933
Rebadge them with a fancy name and sell them for $20 to the gullible. 😉 “Toroid Choke Core”.
I actually kind of like winter? Much better than Summer!
Always use the indefinite article… “a”, never “your”. 😉
“TADA!” for short…
So you had the Shazam! TV show based on the Captain Marvel comic book character…
Which spun off the Isis TV show…
Which then turned into a new comic character…
“But on the flip side, my family and friends will see a scary looking command and immediately be put off.”
More to that… these are exactly the people we have all been telling “If you see someone on the internet telling you ‘type this!’ DON’T DO IT!”
ALT-F4 being the benign one.
rm -rf / --no-preserve-root - not so benign.
I remember a story of someone getting the recursive tag wrong on the chmod command and managed to chmod 000 themselves out of everything on the system… including chmod.
I was a primary source for “The FAQ Manual of Style” in 1996.