So you didn’t play it, and yet your opinion is more important that that of those who did. Got it.

Climate change is a bitch

No artificial flavors

“Natural” and “artificial” flavors are determined by how they’re made/obtained, not by what the ingredient itself is. You can have the same ingredient labeled as either artificial or natural.

In French, yes. In English, it’s a pool cue.

I work for a company that uses NDAs, though I am not under one. Some of the things covered are our designs, our suppliers, and the names of our customers.

They can talk to the operator using cell phones, but they can only exit through land lines.

Wait, what happened to the jeans and beans?

Not mine. It just sits in the cupboard. Waiting.

If you want things to move in that direction, it takes momentum. If nobody does it for fear of confusion, then it will never change. So I say we make that little effort, and explain ourselves if need be.

Tone is very hard to convey through text. I think rules like these can be helpful to get more information across without having to type more words.

Secretly?

Yes, American gas is heavily subsidised.

It’s the same sense of the word. In language terms, meta is self-referential. In gaming terms, the metagame is the game within the game.

Often, games turn into a rock-paper-scissors format where three different strategies fight for dominance to the exclusion of anything non-meta.

The meta becomes the meta because as people start using it, it becomes required to win.

It doesn’t mean you can’t play without it, you just can’t be competitive without it. Some people want to have fun playing games, and some people want to be good at games. And some people can’t have fun unless they’re winning.

If you’re making record profits, some of that needs to go to the people who create that value. And it’s not upper management or shareholders.

I’ve been with Fizz for a few years, and both my phone and home internet plans have both dropped in price over the years, plus they give you “perks” like more data or a small discount that you can apply to your plans. I’m at $7 off my monthly payment at this point.

In the end, we’re still dealing with the big guys, but at least for now, these subsidiaries are acting much nicer than their parent companies.

I lived across the street from a power distribution station. One night while I was outside, there was a lightning strike there, and it lit up the sky like daylight for 2-3 full seconds, and the power for the whole town went out.

If you had not dipped these in … food coloring, for some reason…?

You rub the end on the red packaging to make the tip red. At least that’s how we did it when I was a kid, long after they stopped calling them candy cigarettes, but we knew what they were.

The red comes from rubbing one end on the red packaging.

I think that’s a title one earns, not one that should be given from birth.