You use toilet paper to dry off? Why not a towel?

Isn’t his skull adamantium? Can it be sliced in half?

Why remake movies that are already good?

Isn’t that Batman?

I was confused why a package manager would need to import posts from a social network.

Why name a new product the same as a very popular existing product?

And the cover was mostly to keep the phone form getting dirty when not in use, not to protect it when dropped.

Huh. TIL. I always wondered why libraries treat ebooks like physical books.

I was hitchhiking in Turkey with my now wife many years ago and we got picked up by a bunch of truckers. They passed our destination and kept going, pretending they don’t understand what we’re saying when we kept calling “stop.” Only when I pulled out my phone did they stop. Luckily they didn’t notice my phone was dead.

That’s because you’re not getting them from the original source. Scene releases come in multi-volume zipped rars. I don’t know why they need to be double archived, but they are. But lots of people will take those, unarchive, then re-upload or put them up in a torrent.

I’ve used every version of Windows between 3.11 and 10. I don’t remember ever noticing that either.

It’s not. If you’re really into pop culture and you frequently make such references then someone who is not will have a hard time communicating with you.

It’s not about internet culture being bad, it’s about the communication gap between people with very different cultural references.

I always thought it was for lighters

Not likely a real person, or an edit that was reverted.

On one had, responding like that is definitely a sign that it’s not going to work. On the other hand, that’s a perfectly normal feeling for a person who doesn’t live their life on the internet.

It’s not lying or hallucinating. It’s describing exactly what it found in search results. There’s an web page with that title from that date. Now the problem is that the web page is pinterest and the title is the result of aggressive SEO. These types of SEO practices are what made Google largely useless for the past several years and an AI that is based on these useless results will be just as useless.

With the introduction of AJAX, web pages became apps. It was the advent of SPAs and SASS. Which enabled the things you saw as a consumer.

sounds like you’re contradicting yourself there

Where’s the contradiction?

not sure how that’s an “American” idea

That’s where I heard this perspective from. That you either believe in science or in God, not both. I guess it’s because of all the weird Christian denominations in the US that say crazy things and seem to have never actually read the bible, but use it to justify their anti-science ideas.

Yes, sometimes I see something that looks interesting and click to learn more. But I think more often than not I’ll just open an incognito window and search for it instead of clicking on the ad.

God’s existence, by definition, cannot be proven or disproven. That’s the nature of faith and free will (in the theological sense). And that’s why there are scientists who believe in God. This American idea that religion and science are opposites makes no sense.

Yes, that’s what I said. My native language is a romance language too. And after speaking it her whole life, my wife has trouble getting the grasp of how in English swapping two words completely changes the meaning of what she’s saying (especially when it’s two nouns, like e.g. “parent council”)