Next one that comes to the door, I’m telling him he can have $20 if he humanely escorts the Latrodectus Hesperus living in our cupboard out. Let’s see if he has any tricks up his sleeve other than poison.

What about Mouser?

Yes, although I personally prefer “central planning enthusiast”.

I think we’re approaching the point where the word gets taken back by the community it was used to malign, if not there already. "

Holding out for orc husbando myself.

I’d think the domestic resorts of places like the UK. They were perfect for 1930s factory workers, but cheap air travel probably made them uncompetitive with places offering better weatger and atrractions.

Of course, I suspect a lot of the old hotels are repurposed/torn down now.

My HS chem teacher was a troll; he assigns my group Belousov-Zhabotinsky reactions. Which meant dealing with 1999 internet trying to find resources on it. OTOH, it did make for a very pretty lab demo.

50 cent coins contained silver for a few years longer than dimes and quarters. So you have a slightly better chance of finding a silver coin worth a few dollars in a roll of halves. It’s free gambling for numismatists.

Source: I ask for the occasional roll of halves.

One Piece. The worldbuilding has yet to crash down on itself after 25 years.

Genshin Impact. Yes, it’s gacha, but there’s mountains of content you can play without spending a dime, and they continously expand both content and quality-of-life factors.

Warlock: Who do I have to f**k to get those powers?

Because Wayland is a hot mess.

Patronsexual is obvious backstory, but I could see it with a “sempai notice me” vibe.

“Lord Azazel accidentally gifted me with a trifling of eldritch power, and now I’ll cleave the universe in two to get him to return my love!”

I’ve heard it phrased as “the only stable API for Linux games is Win32.”

Somewhere I have a boxed copy of Hexen for Linux and I doubt it will run on Void (holding with kernel 6.6.6)

GeoWorks.

Here’s a full GUI vector graphics/word processor/productivity app suite with clean Motif-esque decor and solid multitasking… and it runs on a 512k machine with a 5MHz CPU.

The C64 predecessor was impressive too, but straddles the other side of toy/professional IMO.

This seems to be a difference between US and UK English.

“Chicken Burger” is a reasonably cromulent expression in the UK, but it would always be a “Chicken Sandwich” on the other side of the Atlantic.

Also, “Turkey Burger” has some currency, although that might have just been an extensive marketing campaign trying to convince Americans to swap ground beef for ground turkey.

The West seems to define “democracy” in a very specific form: there MUST be multiple competing political parties and power MUST, at least in theory (compare Singapore, Mexico, etc) regularly transfer between them as the result of elections.

This is something Western states have been able to pull off, but it’s actually sort of peripheral to the theoretical INTENT of democracy-- that the government serves the masses. Good governance is pretty much a by-product of the fear of being voted out of office.

You can, and often do, have the all-sacred elections and peaceful transfer of power and still have a government which isn’t acting in service of its electorate. Sure, you can pick red corporate stooge or blue corporate stooge, but the Overton window is still a narrow slit that represents no real threat to the rich, and factionalism and winner-take-all elections sabotage any actual forward motion.

Meanwhile, the single-party state, unencumbered by having to tear itself apart in battles for the throne every four years, can focus on consensus and actual needs. Good governance can come from a sense of civic duty, or even a smartly weaponized corruption (if everyone thrives, my cut of graft grows with it!)

Exception: some places explicitly put it on the kids’ menu as something that even finicky eaters will find familiar.

Most of them will let you take stuff back for a week, even if they’ll only give you a credit note back.

That wasn’t a loose pushpin, it was the null terminator for the entire universe.

The local ones have a freezer with ice cream novelties, much as you’d see in a convenience mar. I assume there’s a business synergy of having kids who have to look through 500 slightly differently sized used “size 12 jeans” to find the ones that fit, and buying their compliance with desserts.

The Genshin fandom is much weaker here. I miss the endless *Mains communities with their useful guides, and the remarkable thirst of some of the groups :cough: /r/GenshinGays :cough: