I got a graphics card that somehow bricked hard drives. We went through a lot of hard drives before finding out this was the case. I don’t remember specifics

There is mushroom for research

Someone once paid me to poke them with a stick every time I caught them not doing their assignments. Offloading executive functioning onto someone else can work

Presumably the cuba option is predicated on cutting ties with the US, though it’s bad for other reasons unless you can get to Cuba with a significant amount of machinery, fuel, and food

*19 year old colonel

Probably want it between the winter temperature and the current summer temperature, but genies are traditionally fickle and pounce on any ambiguity

“Completely different” when the two things are actually very similar

A decent number of ace people I know make more sex jokes than most other people I know

Foreign influence only counts if its from guys we don’t like, not like Nigel Farage

Idk, people don’t usually cut queues, and after that don’t normally just ignore an entire queue of people yelling at him to get back. Something is probably up.

Depends on how willing I am to get assaulted over queuing etiquette

I wish I could be this confident about anything

Is linear algebra older than 0? Hang on (no, it is not, formalised in 17th century)

In my CS course, at least, it was treated as “engineering”, so we did both linear algebra and C programming. For everyone counting from 1 was more natural and the C method had to be taught a few times throughout the course (starting with java loops, which wasn’t used for malloc, OOP was probably the first unit anyone did for CS). As a habit it tended to stick even where we didn’t really use it (or in languages that don’t, e.g. lua), given how grueling C programming was and the other languages that were downstream of it.

I guess you could analogise things like saying “17th century” is 1600-1699 (first century is 0001 to 0099, I guess), in CS you are counting the very start of a thing (e.g. how many apple-widths to get to the first apple), vs the more common how many apples to have gotten the first apple. Or something, idk,

I’m drunk and avoiding housework, sorry

I’m not entirely sure what it means enough to give a summary.

The first usage that pops into my mind is when someone has said a silly joke regarding your situation and you want to acknowledge the joke but also move on quickly.

Second usage is someone has suggested something, you want to say you understand but you have a different opinion.

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Is there a reason for the convention other than that’s how most people count? (Which is a perfectly fine reason, I’m just curious)

“Yeah nah” - Australian proverb

Does that mean Australia gets the money back to put into high density public housing?

I’m old enough to remember reading about netiquette.

It also requires less immediate force on the part of the owners, which is also generally a lot cheaper (both in terms of hired guns and psychologically, in that an individual boss doesn’t have to directly hold their employees at gunpoint in the way a plantation owner might).

Also, it creates enlarged markets for many consumer goods, even if those markets do not entirely fill whatever need they purport to be supplying.

I assume you allow everyone into your home, no questions asked? Maybe you do, but frankly most people at least vet their guests through a combination of social connections and history, and rarely is a place “entirely open” or “entirely closed”. Being excluded from a place because the gatekeepers of that place prefer the company of someone else who doesn’t like you is perfectly normal and ultimately they have to make a choice between you being at an event or their closer friend.

This isn’t to say I agree with every banning or exclusion, but it’s perfectly normal behaviour.