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I never said it was empathy. I said it’s the closest thing you’ll ever get to it from him.

My bad. I used a double negative, which clearly confused you.

“That doesn’t mean that racism doesn’t exist there” means “racist behaviour almost certainly still goes on there”.

I can try to break this down to words of just one sound if you like, but to do that might be too mean, and it’s hard to write like this as well.

Nominally non-racist. Back during apartheid, South Africa was definitely racist. Now apartheid is over, everyone there, regardless of race, is supposed to be equal.

That doesn’t mean that racism doesn’t exist there, just that it’s no longer encoded into law, and indeed the opposite might be encoded, regarding hate crimes and the like.

South Africa isn’t a threat to America, no, but living in a post-apartheid, nominally non-racist country is super uncomfortable for rich, white racists. They perceive the situation as them being in danger, and this has triggered the closest thing to empathy that you’ll ever get out of DJT.

I feel like proponents of that calendar might be better off giving all the months completely different names. It would avoid some of the potential confusion during the changeover. Sol could keep its name, I guess, but the rest, no.

On the other hand, that still wouldn’t disambiguate numeric YYYY-MM-DD and the like.

Due to the omission of the year number on the grid, it’s somewhat reusable too. 2037 is the next time all the dates and days of the week will match.

Not sure he’s been accused of killing any.

I figure they’re more likely related, in spirit and vocalisation if not etymologically, to the French phrase «et patati, et patata», translatable as “blah blah blah” or “yada yada yada”.

The venerable Jargon File has the French metasyntactic variables (i.e. the equivalents to foo and bar) as toto, titi, tata and tutu.

Or to take this in another direction: foo sounds like French “fou” which means “mad” (as in “insane”), so “coucou” might be an interesting alternative.

I’ll be that guy.

“lose” / “loses” are the words you’re looking for.

This is one of those situations where English doesn’t make sense. “loose” doesn’t rhyme with “choose”, but “lose” does, yet all other “-ose” words rhyme with “nose”.

“Lose” is the opposite of “win”. “Loose” is the opposite of “tight”.

Call me cynical, but I think you’ve put quotes around the wrong part of your title.

Try around “accidentally”.

If the day ever comes that I end up in possession of a healthy late 20th century laptop, I’d genuinely consider putting FreeDOS on it. Not least because I threw away my customised MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 floppies years ago (a regrettable decision).

For later hardware, I think I’ll stick with Linux.

For a middle ground, I seem to remember Puppy Linux, which is designed to run on more limited hardware, runs most things as root. (Though maybe they’ve changed that in the intervening years. Correction welcome).

I assume they’re using (year - 2000) as the version number, which happens to match “last two digits” and will do until 2099. So any version of Minecraft released that year under the new system would be Minecraft 1002.x, not 2.x.

And here’s me thinking it was called Vintage Story.

Actually, Minecraft 26 comes out this year. They dropped the “1.” and bumped the sub-version from 21 to 26 to match the year. They’ve also changed the way the new second tier works to be related to the quarter-year.

26.1 is due next month.

So yeah, there’ll never be a Minecraft 2.0. The versioning no longer allows for it.

(This doesn’t rule out a game called “Minecraft II” with its own set of unrelated but identical version numbers. Minecraft II 36.1 drops in ten years. Maybe. But probably not.)

It’s kind of amazing that this is only anachronistic by four months. Both Bliss and (that image of) Tux are both from 1996, and Tux is younger.

Thirty years ago. Please excuse me while I turn to dust.

DDR4 is cheaper than DDR5, sure, but retailers have jacked the price of both by the same percentage, so it’s not really all that much of a rescue.

I expect people will need a full mortgage to pay for DDR6 when it comes out next year.

Those who dehumanise are the true subhumans.

Ha. I’ve heard of Amazon offloading heavier parcels to municipal mail carriers, so I don’t see that working out.

The day they codify in law that public services should not make a profit, the lawsuits will begin. Those to reclassify all and sundry that we think of as public services as not being public services.

A necessity argument would result. Do people need electricity, gas and municipal water treatment? No. They can live off-grid. Therefore these are not public services.

Do people need public transport? No. They can walk or buy rent a car. Therefore public transport is not a public service.

Do people need police, fire, medical? No. Most people can go months, years without needing any of those. Therefore they can’t be public services either.

etc. etc.

I’m not saying I agree with any of that, but the expensive lawyers will be arguing these points and they’ll continue to argue them as long as there’s a profit to be made.