[insert GNU/Linux rant]

They’re just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything

Use dikes, not a knife, and cut the head of the tie, not the strap

To be fair everything but nuclear is just indirect solar power (and if you count other stars besides just Sol, even fission kinda is)

Edit: And I guess geothermal isn’t really solar power either, that’s residual heat from formation of the planet

The person used the term “pussy” in a misogynistic manner.

Their comment is gone, so maybe they did, maybe they didn’t, I can’t see it, but simply calling someone a pussy as an insult is not misogynistic, because the insult has nothing to do with women.

And no where in history did the term originate as “scaredy-cat”. It simply meant cat.

Fair that I shouldn’t have used the word ‘literally’ there; as an insult it means coward, prior to which it meant (small) cat, thus carrying the same meaning as ‘scardey-cat’; it is an insult against someone’s courage by analogy to a cat’s skittishness

Nope, the insult is non-gendered and predates the use of the word as crude anatomical slang; it literally means ‘scaredy-cat’

Judaism is an ethnoreligion, making it both a faith/religion and a race/ethnicity; otherwise there would be no such thing as a Jewish atheist

Never heard of dark patterns? There’s a history of websites doing shitty things like this on purpose

Thin metal arcs in a microwave; I’ve seen a fork arc from the tines, never seen any other cutlery do it. The arcing is the air turning to plasma, so if it was buried in food with no access to air, it wouldn’t arc

On its own, the backtick is primarily used in computing, and so doesn’t have an old-timey-English name, nor does the Jargon File mention a Commonwealth Hackish name for it. While there are a variety of other names, I don’t think any of them are specific to the UK

When used with a letter, it marks a grave accent; this was its original purpose on a typewriter

If you want flying cars to work in a real city, they need VTOL capabilities.

A proper flying car would also have rolling capabilities

Wall block

You’ve never worked somewhere that refused to fill a position that desperately needed filling?

Pwud here

Not that California’s in the US

I like your attitude!

Lol, that’s called being homeless

Anime children in general?

That would be Cardcaptor Sakura

Much smaller tire, and so much less stored energy

Even within the same religion it’s the same word; Arabic Christians and Jews use the word ‘Allah’

It’s more about keeping the worksite clean

Does anyone know anything about Furi Labs phones? I saw a comment about them on another post about Android alternatives https://midwest.social/comment/19568664