mercano @ mercano @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 707Joined 2 yr. ago


Probably lutefisk, fish cured in lye.

I’m afraid I may fail that version of the Voight-Kampff Test.

This is not The Way.

Wow, a DEC AlphaStation computer. That couldn’t have been cheap.

Only Mac OS 10 and later, based on BSD, uses ‘/‘. (And, I guess, A/UX.) Classic MacOS used a ‘:’, but it wasn’t regularly exposed in the UI. The only way most users would know is that the colon couldn’t be used in a file name.

Indigenous names are heavily used. Half the states have Native American derived names, a much larger proportion than I thought. Pre-European population density was much lower, though so there were a lot fewer settlements to name.

It’s useful for people with unisex names like Taylor, Chris, or Jordan, especially in email, where you may not have any face-to-face contact.

Sucks for anyone named Jamie or Alex. Trump is acting like he won in a landslide, even though he wasn’t even able to scrape together a majority of votes; more people voted against him than for him.

No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There’s always a boom tomorrow.

I think you forgot a light. No worries, you have a few weeks to fix it before the cruise.

Kids, look for a build-your-own cannon kit inside the box! Limited time offer.

Jay seems to have a high proportion of Canadian visitors because it’s just south of the border and takes Canadian cash at par with USD.

I’m pretty sure Vermont would be pretty happy to become part of Denmark. Canada, we’re open to counter offers. Think, you could ski at Jay without having to go through customs!

I mean, we’ve got two slave owners up there, why not throw up a sexual predator too?
Trump Administration leaked memo banning observance of MLK Day, Pride, and Holocaust Rememberance Day as part of crack down on DEI

They know they’ll catch hell if they take away the holidays (MLK more than Juneteenth, as it’s been a federal holiday longer), but they don’t want people to talk about WHY they’re holidays.

I’m hearing Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers in my head for this one.

Such a well acted scene. All the actors here are regulars or heavily reoccurring, they all understand their characters, they all knock it out of the park. It’s still relevant today, too.

It does require an accurate reporting of someone’s income. Rich people are infamous for finding any possible loophole to write something off to avoid income tax. Not saying day fines are a bad idea, just saying if we were to implement it we’d also want to work on income tax reform.

Wasn’t Gene involved in the early seasons of TNG?

Even if Canada would merge with the US, surely it wouldn’t become a state. We all know the importance of the Senate at this point, and how the two-senators-per-state rule affects things. At the very least, each province would want to become a state to get more senators, and it may be in the best interest of some of the larger provinces like Ontario or Quebec to subdivide to gain even more, if they can get away with it. Goodness knows the idea of splitting California has been floated by some to try to get something closer to senator-per-capita parity.