Most people want their thinking and learning done for them. There is no magic cure for this, alas.

Seldom have I witnessed such a complete missing of the point as yours.

You posted AC, too--good choice.

Gosh. I can't find the word "cashback" in any dictionary.

I'm guessing it's something made up by non-native speakers who've not yet learnt "rebate" or "refund"?

In which parallel universe is it that PhDs bother with teaching at the high school level?

A factual statement followed by a mischaracterisation followed by a statement that really doesn't mean anything but is supposed to sound like it does.

And we're supposed to accept this rather poor attempt at being clever in lieu of logic.

Yes sir, we are indeed on Slashdot.

So all the cool kids are rewriting their DB servers and OS kernels in Python? How did I miss that?

My dad taught me that when Bill Gates was still stealing code out of dumpsters.

Thanks for the reminder, I'd fallen out of the habit of reading this strip.

Yeah, I stopped at "unique to ..., and ...". No need to have my intelligence insulted any further.

Basically, Putin was all palsy-walsy with the West until he saw this wasn't going to give him any sort of license to reincorporate the Baltics/Ukraine. Then it turned into "They're all out to get us".

Stop feeding the trolls, JC.

2. Kiel.

1. Yes.

Just callin' it as I see it, nothing personal intended.

You would actually buy a phone that does not support any form of removable storage? That would be a show-stopper for me.

I responded to the post to which I was responding. Cheers.

Wasted attempt at humour. Nevermind.

Yes, but that happened in Mediaeval French when une norenge got misspelt as une orenge, well before the word passed into English (and similarly into Dutch, as oranje). By comparison, Spanish and Hungarian have naranja and narancs, respectively.