And all the prescriptivists just collapsed onto their fainting couches.

(I kid, nicely done. Also fuck prescriptivists.)

I see no cake. Then again, I am not a particularly observant human. It’s not one of the/both umbrellas, right? That’s their cool name, yes?

(Probably I’ve monkeyed with my settings and it just doesn’t show for me.)

Wait we have visible-to-others cake days here?

While 700k may look like a lot (and by most objective measures it is), the skill set needed to run a successful non/not for profit is actually quite unique no matter how big or small it is. They do not work not like “normal” CEOs. Replace caring about share price, and moving the share price up effectively versus caring about voluntary donations from people who get nothing out of but perhaps a tax break. And you’re competing not against other equities (stocks); you’re competing against other non/not for profits for limited money and attention.

Anyway, just saying I do not begrudge that level of compensation to the people running the last corner of the internet not filled with AI slop.

Yes see comment above.

IF you also have milk or some other source of dairy.

Years ago we had a hedgehog wander into garden just at dusk. My cat, who was always very curious, followed the hedgehog around for about 45 minutes as it rooted around for things. The hedgehog did not care at all when my cat sniffed him and (gently) touched him/her with his paws. They do not care.

But …crows are a type of corvid. So, you are not Unidan, but we may someday summon him yet.

Unidan?

Do we really spell it, “meems” My kids spell it memes?

I’ll always upvote this one, because I so want it to be true.

No I think what they mean was that we did not discover (or the Japanese, rather) that we have separate receptors on our tongues for umami until fairly recently. We knew what it was, but didn’t have a proper name for it.

If you like beans, the pressure cooker is your friend, and the best one is German: Fissler.

Fries, ok but NOT the stoopwafel!

I have a couple of (sane, nice) Afrikaans; now I feel compelled to ask!

Found the fellow Dutchie…unless, unless they are Belg!

Next up, Wikipedia (not to take anything away from this horrible development). Full memory hole.

FWIW, I have multiple things I should go to in the USA coming up, and neither I nor my family are willing to risk it. My two (young adult) children and I have dual USA - EU country citizenship. My wife had a green card when she lived with me in NYC for over a decade, but turned it in when we moved back long ago. These facts (let alone what my posting history is like) are just too much for us. We won’t risk it.

It’s kind of like a plane crash: very unlikely to happen but you are equally unlikely to walk away unhurt.

We have had these in Europe now for nearly as long as you North Americans. I tend to do daily shopping after work, nice little 15 minute walk calms me down.

But because of this, I was using the scan thing statistically far more than people who don’t shop daily. Another important thing is I use my backpack to pack groceries, and in a former life I did a shit ton of back country hiking, so I know how to pack.

I got so fucking tired of 16 year old kids asking to unpack my carefully packed stuff to scan a random number off items (it’s not by weight most places here) then trying to pack it back - no no no don’t mess with my system - that two years ago I swore off of self check out and only go to the humans now.

Yeah I have to wait in line sometimes, but I figure that evens out for the number of times I was “randomly” checked by some teenager.

At least our check out people can sit down.

Hey, if they get traction, it’s a start.