Software skills plus domain knowledge is a good combination, and I think it will remain viable in the future. But who the fuck knows?

Oh! I apologize for my misreading of your comment, and thank you for the clarification.

And it’s just banger after banger!

You ugh the old drip machine but not the cup/pod system? How dare! Kcups are an abomination and a symptom of everything wrong with this world!

A good drip machine is fine. Not great, but acceptable.

It is theoretically possible that we are basal in such away that mice are derived given a certain ailment, that a treatment doesn’t work on mice. However we are so damn closely related to mice that probability is vanishingly small, and in such cases where it is known about, they actually genetically modify the mouse to account for it.

They used to do fertility tests on hamster ovum to see if a human male’s sperm was viable. We are fucking close enough to hamsters a human sperm can cause a hamster ovum to start to divide.

Granted, I will agree with you: much animal testing is fucking horrific and deplorable. But it is generally reliable.

I didn’t formally study it, but yes! This is my take! I thought I kind of think I got bored with it when the simple chat interfaces came out. But it’s more than that. The marketing is horrible

This is what I do to. I would like to expand to adding calcium back to the water, but haven’t found a good guide.

But if I didn’t spend hours online talking about the importance of an real ebony fret board and the blood moon mahoganynbody only producing good sounds when it has the blood of the innocent infused on the fourth new moon of the seventh equinox, what would you suggest I do with my time? You don’t actually expect me to play my guitar do you?!?!

Ouch. This hurts. This hurts so much.

I agree that alphabets are easier to learn. However, I don’t think that is the ultimate standard in what makes for a good writing system. I would like to learn Chinese. Someday. But I do like the logo-syllabic writing systems I do know

I disagree. I doubt you read any alphabet letter by letter. You read words or you don’t read fluently. So the reality is: alphabets aren’t inherently better, and I think the continued existence of Chinese as a viable writing system shows this to be the case.

The one advantage alphabets have is they have a more gentle ramp up, but I don’t think they are inherently better. In fact your example of Roman vs Arabic numerals is a preference for logogram over atomistic writing system.

I think this is actually a success: this is the process of all languages. A usable language will evolve and grow, and something as geographical dispersed and isolated as Esperanto will certainly show divergence if it is being used.

So rather than a failure, I think this demonstrates it can be a real language. Though my interest in language isn’t for communication. So eh. Your milage may very.

I am happy for you in that, a little surprised. But good for you!

Oh yes. I hate Dickens. Absolutely can’t stand him.

Is this sarcasm? I think if it stopped at the first dichotomy, or the second it would be fine. But it goes on for fucking ever.

This is basically my strategy too. Though, I tend to buy from Bandcamp first and foremost. I like that most of the time if I buy physical media (either vinyl or CD) on Bandcamp it comes with a digital download.

I was disappointed that Bandcamp was bought by a company a few years back, but nothing has changed… Yet.

The energy drink really brings out all of those flavor notes!

Doritos. And a gas station hotdog.

Ah. Well. I can not be blameless on this. I also probably use cat unnecessarily still. But less so with grep these days. I’m getting better… I swear!

Useless use of cat?