I’ve been summoned as a juror twice in >20 years of eligibility. They have a number you call when the date comes to see if you actually have to appear or not; the first time, I didn’t have to go at all. The second time, I did have to appear; I sat in a waiting room with about 20 other people for an hour, then we were all told we could go home.

Overall, shitty experience.

I guess I’m suggesting that if you got kids used to using Linux, they’d be more likely to keep using Linux after graduating, on their personal computers. Nobody’s using ChromeOS for anything serious.

Imagine the technological shift we could see if they were similarly powered linux laptops vs. Chromebooks. Get kids used to linux in school and I bet we’d start seeing Windows losing much more significant market share.

Reddit had quite a few communities like that, including a few that were at war with each other.

And here I expected that link to lead to a certain highly controversial Penny Arcade comic.

It’s great because A) his parents presumably named him that knowing full well what they were doing and B) He could have chosen to go by Will, William, or Bill, but actively chose to use Willie professionally.

Yeah, that’s a lot less fun to imagine. :(

Now I’m imagining a room full of people swallowing battery after battery to test this product.

Shh. Don’t let the tweakers hear you. We’re recruiting an army here.

*notices your soul* OwO what’s this?

Looks like a disembowelment.

There’s an old joke that uses this premise.

President Bush was briefed on the war this morning. He was told that 3 Brazilian solders were killed in Iraq.

To everyone’s amazement, all the color drained from the President’s face, then he collapsed onto his desk, head in hands, visibly shaken, almost in tears.

Finally, he composed himself and asked, “Just exactly how many is a Brazilian?”

Until you open the door and decapitate him.

I had to google this, legitimately thought you were referring to a Pokemon or something. Some weird combination of Geodude and Psyduck, maybe.

Look, if I have to go bankrupt for visiting the hospital to make sure that all these “rainbow flag” groups can’t corrupt our youth, that’s what I’m going to do!

• Conservatives, probably

Well now I just want to see if I can get it to talk about kobolds. Not explicitly on the list!

Not to mention by ending (or changing the structure of) subsidies for farmers (in the US, at least). Because of the way the subsidies are paid out, farmers are incentivized to grow crops like soybeans and corn that feed livestock vs. crops that people eat, because they’re more heavily subsidized.

There’s a lot of articles about this topic out there but in the interest of providing a source, here’s one example.

On the other hand, the platform isn’t large enough to support the body with B so there’s danger of it falling off or hurting people or whathaveyou. With A, you risk the head and neck falling down and hurting someone but the body, at least, is in a stable position.

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A better analogy would be insects. Not all yellow-and-black flying insects are dangerous, but if you see one flying around your head, it’s safer to assume it’s a yellowjacket than to assume it’s a honeybee.