The public largely supported the abolition of duelling. The reason it disappeared was because it was largely associated with slave owners in the south and it disappeared after they lost the Civil War.

you can’t sin against the devil

I didn’t play Stardew valley because she star on my valley til I dew

Not quite the same for me, but realizing I could command line automate Hubstaff (productivity tracking software) means my time sheet is always accurate and in budget.

Perhaps Thor is Pozzo.

well of course not, they all have sports cars etc etc

I have done this with work stuff. Doesn’t always work.

Studies suggest this is an extreme minority, and stories like yours - while yours might be true (and be fair to me here, we’re just two usernames, we don’t know each other’s motives and biases), it’s often used to push reasons to defund homeless shelters and criminalize being poor.

Even if you have seen a homeless person (or imposter) do something wrong, it might be worth considering that being homeless is very difficult and often caused by pre-existing medical conditions or institutionalized discrimination.

Excel has a 15 point float, a quadrillionth, which should be enough for anything you were using excel for.

counterpoint: Bob Vylan

I just watched the new Jurassic Park movie yesterday and a guy falls 500 feet into a shallow river and is completely unhurt so now I don’t know who to believe

the joke is he’s falling to his death and someone is telling him “you can do it [survive]!”

Gustav Janouch interviewed Kafka who talked passionately about music but not specific music.

However, being from Central Europe at the turn of the century, it’s likely he was talking about the composers Smetana and Dvořak.

So doth hates potatoes

would be the modern equivalent of “so does hates” which doesn’t make sense

“So, doth thou hate potatoes?” or “So, thou hates potatoes?”

in the uk

is the important part. you would be considered a high earner earning that

it’s the Tarot card “the fool”

it’s gambling for children is why. While I can choose to not buy the MTX inside a game, children and some young adults are more vulnerable to psychologically manipulative dark patterns that have been designed to mimic addiction as closely as possible.

“somewhere or other”

found the Northerner. How’s the whippets?

then don’t make single player games (or sections of games) require a server.

In NPS (net promoter score) tracking - you know the survey “would you recommend this to your friends and colleagues”

it’s worded and scored 0-10 so that you can assume everyone that scores 7+ is happy and anyone below isn’t.

It’s a psychological thing that wouldn’t work if it was thumb up or thumb down.

In 5 star systems 4 and 5 should be considered promoters and 3 and below should be considered detractors, but again you should bifurcate and dichotomize the output so you see how many scored 4>= and how many <=3