Don’t threaten me with a good time

If one of those types of football was by far the most popular sport in the world we might just call it “football” without any qualifier.

Xylem is a major component of almost all the plants you see. I’m not sure how much more real-world representation you can get…

Xenon? Xylem? Xenobiology? Xanthoma? Xylocarp? Xiphoid? Xerosis? Xyster? The scrabble favorites xi and xu?

There’s loads of cool words that begin with x

Geeze, spoiler alert dude.

The system can listen to conversations and play ads when there’s a moment of silence. Or play a video when you’re close to the shops.

Oh good, I was worried the slide into dystopia might be slowing down for a second there.

This should be what finally starts the push to guillotine the upper management of Disney but I guess we’ve got to take whatever we can get.

Really, what positive impact or contribution have they ever made?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_innovations_and_discoveries

To be clear, the oxygen source they found is tiny relatively speaking it’s just a surprise it’s there at all (and even then the measured oxygen level levelled out after 48hrs so it may not even be a continuous source of oxygen under normal circumstances, they theorised that it may have been caused by them stiring up the seabed when they dropped the chambers down)

Sure but the chances of your Windows and Linux machines shitting the bed at the same time is less than if everything is running Windows. It’s exactly the same reason you keep a physical copy (which after all can break/burn down etc.) - more baskets to spread your eggs across.

Gonna be a nice test of proper backups and disaster recovery protocols for some organisations

Got to get to Mars for those

September 1st 2003 apparently

I’d have gone with “an Argentinian why they have a German surname” personally

The “m.” is probably [minim](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_(unit\) ) and “gr.” will be [grain](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_(mass\) )

Money is a hell of an aphrodisiac

Took me a while, I was just assuming they were a furry.

This particular arms race began a couple of decades ago at least…

Snopes says this is “undetermined” (also that CDs hold 74 minutes). Honesty pleasently surprised by how plausible it is from the given evidence though, I was expecting this to turn out to be definitively a myth.

ZZ ps aux? Who are they?