Hey it’s spelled “fagott” so that’s a completely different and did not at all make terminally online teenage boys snicker 15+ years ago

I have a vague memory of that phrase being spelled exactly like that, but I have no idea what the original source is. I think I remember it from a clan name in GunZ online (and a private server at that) from back when that was a thing.

Mercator is great for navigation in straight lines and makes countries far from the equator look big

The navigation thing is an actual advantage but it doesn’t give you the shortest routes, just the easiest to follow

Business to Business

Ironically Apple would never allow a first party app to be anything other than Swift. No React allowed.

Possibly, but I also made a satirical comment a while back explaining how sex with women is gay (admittedly not entirely my idea, other people have made the joke before)

I’m going to need a source on the fat ass part. I cycled for years when I was younger and I certainly have glutes of steel, but they’re not big. I do however find myself very much attracted to a big ass on the opposite sex so if that’s true in any way shape or form, I should start cycling to meet more women who cycle perhaps lol

Major difference is that in Hollywood, you don’t hire a bunch of, say, VFX artists for a movie, you contract the company that retains them. They’ll generally still have jobs when the movie is over. It’s mostly just the cast, director and writers that work on a per-project basis. Games industry is somehow worse than Hollywood.

Use free Gemini to move off Gmail, double damage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

The ball is called a magic 8 ball and it’s a toy popular in the US, you ask it a question and it gives you a random answer

10% of the US is millionaires and wealth is quite segregated by location so depending on where you grow up or live, it’s entirely possible to mostly only know rich people while most of the country lives paycheck to paycheck and a large amount of people can’t afford healthcare. It’s inequality again, yay

Just mentioning this because the thread itself and the person you responded about referred to the US. Not actually American myself.

Sure. You prefer quarters or nickles?

Telemetry includes error logs and performance traces.

Interestingly enough, I’ve once been told it was bad that I said merry Christmas.

Context: I’m from a fairly irreligious country. Christmas has nothing to do with religion for me because our ancestors celebrated it long before the crusade and in our language it has nothing to do with Christ, we call it jõulud.

Anyway, my dad had a business in the US but his English was poor enough that when I was like 12 or 13, he asked me to send some emails to his clients for him. I did. This was in December. Next time he called, he said some client was furious because I either started or ended the email with Merry Christmas aaaand apparently it went to a Jewish family. Which I guess he knew beforehand but I did not and the didn’t know the email was from me, not him.

This would’ve been like late 00s.

trains the robots that will bring manufacturing home

How does replacing blue-collar jobs help the blue-collar worker though?

That’d mostly a US thing I believe, ain’t no bank here leaving money on the table just because you paid using a credit card. Still gotta pay it back or pay interest.

Longest it’s taken has been 5 minutes for me. I’d be furious if it took a day, even an hour.

Most cars don’t show that. Here’s the fuel gauge from my backup car since my other car is in the middle of repairs

Not only do you have to know the size of the tank, you also have to account for fuel tank math being different from regular math. The needle isn’t linear. E.g in a lot of cars it doesn’t start dropping until you’re down at least like 5 liters. That’s because people start whining about fuel consumption otherwise (“I just filled up and it’s already dropping”) and similarly the last half or quarter seems to be bigger in some cars. Middle bit is worth the least.

I don’t think I’ve seen a car that actually shows the liters. Maybe once or twice. I’ve owned like 10 or 15 cars and driven many more.

In Estonia two chains make you choose at the pump if you’re paying inside after pumping or on the machine before. One switches over automatically when the shop part closes and doesn’t even let you choose when it’s open. Others are pay-first.

And nobody needs to see you here, they have cctv anyway

Is your language en-us or en-ca would be my first question. There’s multiple potential ways they could be determining what the correct name is for you?