So far, nobody’s mentioned recognizing me, despite the fact that I feel like I comment a lot (an unhealthy amount, really).

I’m not sure whether to feel insulted or relieved.

MICROS~1

LOL

Also, “oh shit a leopard!”

I suspect it does include that, because otherwise I’d expect it to cost more like $200, if not even less.

And who TF is using Amazon Linux? I’ve never even heard of it before.

AWS nodes, maybe?

Also, shouldn’t you be spelling that “ÞF”?

What “monocoque?” That was made so long ago they were still talking about coachwork!

I dunno man, some of those ducks might deserve it.

(IYKYK)

Would you have preferred “primordial cereal” instead?

He should drive a van.

It does kinda look like a pinecone, though, and “apple” just means “fruit.”

We really ought to pick one of these names to start calling them:

https://www.birdful.org/what-did-native-americans-call-turkeys/

I’d be partial to the Muscogee word because I’m from the Southeast (and because it starts with ‘t’), but it doesn’t seem like it has enough vowels so I have no idea how to pronounce it.

Barry Mann - Who put the bomp? because somebody referenced it in the !tenforward@lemmy.world thread about James R. Kirk’s middle name.

Kinda fun as far as '50s pop goes, I guess.

Edit: Now I’m about to go listen to “video killed the radio star” because I double-checked the tenforward link was correct and found a thread referencing that in there too. Why is it unusually musical tonight?

Edit 2: it is now the next morning, and “Who Put The Bomp?” remains stuck in my head. Send help.

Do you never research a product before purchasing or do you just work with whatever is available in your local store? If you’re buying a car, is it just whatever is on the side of the road or do you search for expert reviews or reliability data?

I, for one, actively search out the reviews from entities that go out of their way to not be sponsored by the makers of the products they’re reviewing.

I’ve just had an epiphany (or maybe a half-baked showerthought) reading this thread.

All marketers are trying to sell people stuff, but if you think about it, what’s the one thing in common that they’re all trying to sell, and that they’re presumably best at?

Their own services.

So who knows if this “advertising value” has any relationship with reality, or if it’s just inflated bullshit marketers make up to sell themselves.

Go read the comment I initially replied to.

You can say what you want about “Páshka” or “Passover”, but there’s no way in Hell “Easter” isn’t related to “Ēostre” (and “estrus,” and “east” – think ‘rising sun’ – and spring/rebirth/fertility concepts in general). Just because a holiday may not have been appropriated from an earlier one for the Greeks or Romans, doesn’t mean it wasn’t appropriated from an earlier one for the Germanic peoples.

Ah, thanks. I figured that, like the US, it was some kind of other policy that had a side effect of artificially skewing the numbers.

But why do you love helping Google control web standards, when you could just be using a Mozilla-based browser instead?

They know they have the system rigged and they’re flaunting their power.

Conservatism absolutely is, though.