“Until I die?!”

“No, until the end of the comic. We’re in the last panel, what did you expect?”

“And the pile of corpses?”

“Oh yeah, they’re dead alright.”

They should’ve hired tea industry execs. If the tea industry can come up with grades like “Special Finest Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe”, they can come up with something beyond Ultra High Definition.

Maybe like this:

• High Definition (HD)
• Full High Definition (FHD)
• Ultra High Definition (UHD)
• Very Ultra High Definition (VUHD)
• Special Very Ultra High Definition (SVUHD)
• Full Special Very Ultra High Definition (FSVUHD or SVUHD1, both are acceptable)

Not that these grades would only apply to displays that don’t support picture-in-picture or split screen. Displays with those features (“broken” displays) would use the following equivalent grades instead:

• High Broken Definition (HBD)
• Full High Broken Definition (FHBD)
• Ultra High Broken Definition (UHBD)
• Golden Ultra High Broken Definition (GUHBD)
• Special Golden Ultra High Broken Definition (SGUHBD)
• Full Special Golden Ultra High Broken Definition 1 (FSGUHBD1)

Because your company makes you use Azure Virtual Desktop to connect to a VM and AVD’s clipboard handling is as unreliable as anything else from Microsoft?

A kiln. The Bajorans wanted to use a moon as a power plant but people lived there. And apparently they had spent so much time living there (since the end of the occupation) that some old guy didn’t want to leave.

He also refused to do anything until he has finished building a kiln. So Kira helped him build it and spent some time getting to know him. Then when it was done she nuked it with a phaser and he finally left.

If it goes like the only “building something by hand without advanced technology” episode I can think of, the pyramid gets built and then Kira blows it up a minute later. Which, frankly, is a very Kira thing to do.

Heck, have the aliens try to abduct some wildlife and then it turns out they picked up the cocaine bear. Play it as an action comedy from the perspective of the aliens.

Bonus points if they then abduct a human hunter to deal with it and he turns out to be the deranged serial killer from the post.

Do you think it’s time for a remake of the Moana remake? We could concurrently start working on the remake of that.

The diagram is not comparing between two standards but between two sizes within the same standard. Philips size 0 (PH0) has a slightly different shape than Philips size 1 (PH1) and up.

Note that according to hardware manufacturer Tekton, the differences are smaller than you think and especially the diagrams are highly misleading as they actually compare PH2 and PH0.

Just about the only major difference is the thread pitch and that is only different in JIS screws if they don’t have the dot.

And if you went for the color depth because your graphics accelerator could do HighColor at 800x600 you had to decide between 15-bit and 16-bit colors.

Starring out letters die not change the fact that you wrote “shit”. It’s a fig leaf you can hide behind to avoid plump censorship but the intended meaning is communicated very clearly.

You are every bit as crass as everyone else here, just less honest about it.

Speaking as sometime from Central Europe, rain in winter is very much accurate. Typical Christmas weather is light rain at two degrees above freezing. When it does go below freezing in winter it’s usually relatively damp air with no precipitation so there’s no fun snow but a cold that becomes painful within seconds if you don’t have much body fat.

Even a full week of 43 °C wasn’t quite enough to make me like summer less than winter.

I’m happy with slightly slower and non-free shipping if it buys me the knowledge that I get a genuine product. That’s not a given with Amazon.

I think they finally stopped commingling items between different sellers but there still enough dodgy shit floating around that I’d rather go to the manufacturer or a dedicated retailer for anything expensive or commonly faked.

Especially for expensive stuff. Lenient return policy or not, I’d rather not wait for my new phone twice because the first time some fulfillment center worker “accidentally” put something else in the box. And yes, that has happened to me.

German here. Same. How could you even tell it’s the new year without everyone on your street setting off a dozen rockets plus various assorted low altitude fireworks each?

You’re thinking of dark bears which don’t interact with regular bears and are hard to detect.

You could just… wash them right before serving them. Why would you wash them way before?

My company actually realized that an open-plan office with barely controllable AC isn’t very attractive in 2026. Now they’re looking for a new office so they can get rid of the current one.

Good riddance. The building has a (painted) metal facade so mobile reception is crap and you can hear the espresso machine from every point in the office with perfect clarity.

In my case I wasn’t paying enough attention to where water had pooled in the tracks cars had worn into the road. Gentle taps on the brake handles were enough to decouple my scooter’s wheels from the road and give me a two kilometer braking distance. Yikes.

“Hell” sound like an accurate description. I wouldn’t want to live in such a place as an adult, much less a minor.

Getting hurt a little bit is very useful.

I’ve forgotten about plenty of situations where things could’ve gone wrong but didn’t but I can still vividly remember accidentally hitting myself in the dick with my bike handle.

(Since I know someone will want to know: I misjudged my speed and the impact a wet wheel had on my braking power. When I noticed I was going too fast to take a corner I braked and the front brake locked the wheel immediately. Inertia did the rest.)

That and a (thankfully merely scary) run-in with aquaplaning a few years later taught me to be wary of wet driving conditions, especially of braking in them.