Hahaha, you got me in the first half

If you can’t tell, is it really the most obvious troll?

It’s an American/British English difference

they haven’t been made by ibm for years and years

It’s both

Because they just don’t write emails like this, it’s way more likely that some scammer fooled your friend.

its from my friend so thats all I need personally

You think it’s literally impossible that your friend would be fooled into thinking the email was from Microsoft when it wasn’t?

Yeah, exactly, when you want to do a full upgrade it’s technically best practice to check if there’s anything which requires intervention. But I never bother honestly, and the one time there was an issue it was resolved by just uninstalling one package for another.

It does still happen occasionally that updates need some intervention, it is still policy that you should check the blog in case, but it’s only happened once in the last two years for me.

The people doing the guillotining weren’t the state (at first anyway)

Everybody wins!

Except the Brits, haha

That’s why blood is red, it’s all the rust from the oxygen we breathe

perhaps in a century, contemporary programmers will find it bizarre that C used the equal-sign to mean assignment rather than equality, when the <= arrow would more accurately describe assignment

Maybe they’ll find a better symbol than the one we already use for less than or equal to.

because the withdrawal also kills

Ah, you might be thinking of alcohol. Nicotine withdrawal just makes a very strong craving but there is no physical danger.

I think the US is the best place he could go, it’s already so bad even he will hardly make it worse, and more factions and intra-right tension might even be a good thing that could come out of it

Nah punch drunk love is also really good

I believe that the best for billionaires is to be relieved of the morally corrupting influence of their wealth, and I do wish that for them.

It’s gunk scraped from the bottom of beer fermentation barrels. Tastes something like auto body filler putty with soy sauce.

It’s almost like there’s a spectrum

Ok, so what would the equivalent be?