What do you do if it comes up positive? Presumably if you know it’s a risk, you’d leave your phone in airplane mode or at home, and if you know it’s happening you’ve already been recorded?

I’m confused, what was the injury? Did you launch the rock into the air and it came straight back down?

Happy Indepedence Day! Because you can write “independence” without three Ns!

I can’t think of a single company worse at naming products and services than Microsoft. They have an abysmal track record. Some examples off the top of my head, all of which make web searches near-impossible:

• They renamed Office 365 to just “365” (and then “365 Copilot”). The mind boggles.
• They named their light extensible code editor “Visual Studio Code”, despite the fact that they had a long-established IDE (for code) called “Visual Studio”.
• They called their application framework “the .NET framework”.
• They called the replacement framework “.NET Core”, and after a few major versions, changed to calling it “.NET”, but it’s totally distinct from the .NET framework.
• They called their ninth major desktop operating system “Windows 7”, then followed up with “Windows 8” and… “Windows 10”.
• Their native web app replacement for Outlook is called “New Outlook”.
• They recently renamed their Remote Desktop app “Windows App”. I have no words.

David Malki has been doing it for 22 years, I reckon he knows his limits!

Honestly, the small angular ones that lay larvae on clothing get swatted or electrocuted without a second thought. They fall into the mosquito category.

Everything else gets escorted outside or, if not feasible without risking harm, left to their own devices.

And skins, tanned, stitched, and treated with resin. Pottery is also an ancient skill.

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Tell the iPhone that the output isn’t headphones and it’ll stop warning you. Plug it in, then head to Settings -> Sound and Haptics -> Headphone Safety -> USB Audio Accessories.

It wasn’t just other cultural groups that had other gods – proto-Judaism was polytheistic.

Unrelated to hoist as in to lift, despite similarities

It’s exactly the same word, as I understand it – in this sense, thrown into the air rather than lifted into the air. We’ve started using the past participle as the present tense, and created “hoisted” to fill the gap, and the violent/uncontrolled sense of the word is now archaic.

Although she appears to be very young, she was born into a long-lived race of elves and has lived for over a thousand years.

Oh, that old chestnut.

they want the ability it provides to die.

Terminal Server licensing will be bringing them in a tidy amount of money from on-prem enterprises, but it’s true that Windows App has a heavy focus on Azure and will definitely be aiming to push people in that direction - it can’t even connect to remote Windows PCs.

This is a silly argument, but:

at some point they stopped making TV shows and movies set in the past and went to making everything science fiction

At the risk of being cliché, I recommend the original books by Bernard Cornwell!

There’s still a ton of historical media too. From my past three months of watching:

• Gladiator II
• John Adams
• Taboo
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Beneath Hill 60
• When Evil Lurks
• Life is Beautiful
• A Haunting in Venice
• Wolf Hall
• The Terror

Just because she likes to see the giggle doesn’t mean she thinks any less of the other women, she could even hold her in very high regard.

Misogyny aside, there’s nothing in this sentence that is gender-specific other than the pronouns. We should recognize it and call it out regardless.

I like the suggestion that the witch hadn’t cast a spell before this point because they thought it was a social faux-pas. Confrontation anxiety strikes again.

FYI, Brother seem to be acting a little shady in the last couple of years.