Now imagine if that was a Lego factory … you’d NEED safety shoes with steel soles for that.

Same with guest rooms. In my area, almost all “old” houses have a room that is kept neat and tidy but unused until guests come over - basically wasted space specifically reserved for other people not living under that roof. And the boomers here get confused about why newer houses (especially rental appartements) don’t have that oh-so-important feature anymore.

Imagine an entire effing room and everything in it (furniture included) getting the “fine china” treatment and old people being offended that “the youth today” has the audacity to invite guests into the regular boring non-special living room.

On the other hand, “knocked down” and “knocked up” have drastically different meanings, which is a little confusing for foreigners sometimes. =P

You can also make light out of light by powering a lightbulb with solar energy, or create wind out of wind by powering a fan with electricity generated by wind turbines.

Just don’t try to recreate nuclear energy at home, kids.

No idea about personality traits, but there have been studies about what kind of human behavior, especially facial expressions, might be “pre programmed” in our genes. For example, rolling your eyes when you’re frustrated with someone, or raising your eyebrows when you are surprised - that’s something even most blind people do instinctively, despite never having seen it / never learned it from others.

The sad part is that a no small amount of prisons (especially “for profit” prisons) don’t have the end goal of rehabiliting the inmates in the first place. It’s all about cheap labor. They don’t want to change anything into a positive direction.

…so he can have a total meltdown over an internet stranger again? =P

Personally, I like the “alpha as in new software” approach: Alpha version = unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, prone to breakdown and not fit for the public.

Exactly this. Put any one species into a tiny depressing enclosure with way too many strangers and way too little food, and they will fight and establish a pecking order eventually. This has nothing to do with how the same species would behave in the wild and with enough resources to live comfortably, and the author realized that mistake years ago and is since trying to correct it.

But I guess the entire “alpha male” thing is just too popular with certain people … ahem.

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To be perfectly honest, even non-scrambled German words like Nahrungsmittelunverträglichkeit or Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften can fry human brains and AI circuits alike.

In csae anoyne wnats the sauce: https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt-davis/cmabridge/

The same with Italian Plumber Speedracing Simulator.

After looking through the comments here, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you just don’t understand what you’re saying, because you seem to be under the impression that “defederating” means that noone that isn’t subscribed to the defederating instance will have access to the content anymore. (e.g. Instance A cuts ties with Instance B and C so people with accounts on Instance B and C can no longer read what is published on Instance A)

This is not how it works.

You can browse all instances without even having an account on any of them so absolutely noone loses access to anything. The only thing you temporarily(!) lose is the ability to WRITE anything on the defederated instance, but you can just make an account there anytime you want.

So when Instance A cuts ties with Instance B and C, people with accounts on A can no longer WRITE anything in communities on B and C, but everyone can still READ everything, and if you happen to have an account on Instance B and want to write something on Instance A, you can just create an account there.

Spending ten seconds on creating an account is not censorship.

It is definitely shady, but allegedly legal as long as you don’t claim that the former price was higher. The advertisement itself “just” states what the current price is, which is not a lie.

Still totally scummy IMHO.

Actually, you don’t even need to change the price to get customers to buy something “on sale”. The supermarket I’ve worked in for a couple of years regularily advertised a certain brand of soft ice cream this way (not going to say any names here). “Only 2,99€ this week” (without comparing that price to anything in particular) and people bought that stuff en masse, even tho that was the exact same price as the week before, and the same price again after the “sale”. The only thing that changed during the “sale” week was the color of the price tag.

Laws regarding these types of advertising only work if customers actually compare prices, and most just don’t do that.

Might be wefwef then. For me, the spoiler is hidden (Firefox, Desktop version if that matters)

Swap “test” and “spoiler” around and add a paragraph behind “text” and “hidden”. The first “spoiler” is part of the formatting, not the title of the spoiler ;)

If you write it as:

::: spoiler Title goes here

Hidden part goes here

:::

Here you can continue writing outside of the spoiler section

Then you will get:

Here you can continue writing outside of the spoiler section