I think she was a character in Airplane! (the movie).

If it happens that often, Shirley you can provide some evidence to support your claim.

The Google Street View pictures of Equatorial Guinea's embassy in Washington DC do not show any protesters outside, so it's obviously not literally all the time, but I'm willing to accept some other form of evidence that the "freedom and democracy" crowd (who often turn that into "freedumbs and dumbocracy" when they don't like the results of elections) protest it regularly.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc. It's what's for breakfast, kids.

Once upon a time, journalists learned not to fall for that kind of fallacy, and took pride in not perpetrating it. Now, it's an indispensable part of writing clickbait.

If you are worried about adverse effects of dihydrogen monoxide (it is strongly associated with drowning deaths), you could replace some of it with hydrogen hydroxide. You could even use hydric acid, although that's nicknamed "the universal solvent", so who knows what would happen if you drink beer containing it....

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a... says 2G and 3G base stations needed about 2.5 kW per sector -- but that could be done more efficiently with today's hardware that with 15- to 25-year-old gear. Wikipedia says that 2023 balloon could generate about 10 kW, so what's the problem?

My old Pixel 6 XL supported a physical SIM plus an eSIM. I could choose which to use for voice and SMS, and which to use for data, which is really nice because it meant I had flexibility for roaming data while still using my regular number for texts and calls.

My new Pixel 10 Pro XL (Super Mega Gemini AI Compumegadyne Edition ) supports dual active eSIMs, and like the iPhone mentioned above, at least eight total. It was eerie how easy it was to convert my old physical SIM to an eSIM: it all happened from my chair, and I only had to go to my carrier's web site to turn off the SIM lock.

Like, isn't it already, like, totally clear from that quote? Just use "like" as an interjection a few more times.

People don't pass the ball in your version of American football? (Maybe I'm just a square who doesn't know how things are done these days. But at least I'm not a square meter.)

But a game centered on advancing the ball on foot might better be called "runball" or even "sportsball".

Broadcom's long practice of requiring NDAs before giving out even data sheets for their chips -- or letting people take certification exams -- was not sufficient to put them on "the dark side", but doing contract chip development for someone else is? Can you elaborate the logic there?

TFS tells us this 3600 meters is about half the size of a football pitch. I also cover 3600 meters, if you use a line that is thin and squiggly enough, although I can't pitch a football that far. I don't any living human can.

That's really not supported. TFS leads with a claim that there's no benefit in consuming more than 1.6 g protein per kg of body weight per day, but the later bits say that many Americans consume more than ... half that amount. Presumably "overdose" is somewhere above the 1.6 g/kg/day limit.

Yeah, Python took the wrong lesson from C's operator precedence mistake.

That was my workaround for both flaws, but in exchange I got all of Android.

Android is still my mobile phone OS of choice, but I do think iOS does security better than Android.

Why would my sphincter be sore and purple? I've only ever had Android phones. I have a Macbook, but the last Apple device I had before that was a second- or third-gen iPod (with wheel and rotating hard drive, not touch).

When you assume, YOU end up with a sore and purple sphincter.

Such as when Apple opposed government requests to have backdoors into locked devices? How is having those backdoors good for users?