Did things suddenly become worse for those types of things around 2014? If that was the cause, I feel like you’d see a bump up in 2008 with the great recession.

The equivalent of reading the top answer on Google isn’t installing an HVAC system. It’s turning on the AC. I bet most people who do that don’t know much about how they work. If your landlord got the AC replaced with something “new and better” but it still blew cold when you turned it on, I doubt most people do anything different than what they were already doing unless they experienced bad results.

Yeah. My VCR TV would automatically rewind and start playing again. I have no idea how many times some of those tapes were played but it definitely broke 100.

I think absent bowel sounds generally means no shitting. Bowels are apparently pretty noisy when they’re digesting.

Yeah, but since 2000, it’s been the republican color. We were pretty over the whole communism thing at that moment in time.

I don’t think anyone here is disputing that it’s a war. They just want an acceptable, concise way to say “the part of the war where Ukraine brought the fighting into Russia.”

You can want it all you want. It’s just not reality. And pretending like it is isn’t helpful to people trying to learn the language.

Most countries have some waivable rights. The US specifically allows you to waive your right to bring disputes to court through contracts. You retain the ability to challenge the arbitration requirement in court, but if you have any other concerns, it’s arbitration.

It would be a contraction of had: “I had better write…” Using would there doesn’t make sense.

I think that predictability is the crux of the surprise about her being charged. I don’t think I could say anything to start national riots. Maybe that isn’t true, but I would never assume that would be the consequences of one of my tweets. Who is this woman that she should have expected she had that kind of influence?

I think a lot of it was the charging network. What happened with that again? Oh yeah. He fired that whole team.

Is the vaccine for this available to most people?

I’m not familiar with mpox and I just finished the gauntlet of vaccines that is a kid’s first year and a half of life.

The aid is definitely for the audience. Otherwise, the presenter would just have some notes.

The slides don’t need to be a book. But I struggle to think of a technical topic that doesn’t have some visuals that would make talking about it easier to follow.

Edit: and I think it’s presenters thinking the aid is for them that leads to such awful slides.

Maybe for something non-technical that would be reasonable. But if you’re talking to a single slide for ~30 minutes, it’s unlikely to be an adequate aid for most people. Either the content is really complex and would benefit from additional slides that focus on each relevant part. Or a lot of what you’re talking about isn’t really represented, and people are likely to get lost without something to show what it is you’re describing.

Dogs kill about twice as many people per year as cows in the US.

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

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12024-024-00786-8

What’s your definition of language?

That comment isn’t saying it was consensual; it’s saying her age is what made it nonconsensual, so you can’t just ignore her age.

If adults talked about having sex, got drunk, and had sex, I don’t think people would generally consider it rape. That one of the people involved was 12 is what makes it absolutely rape and utterly disgusting.

No, because CrowdStrike didn’t bork the drivers for those systems. They could have, though.

They don’t have to do anything. But they are.