Hmm, I wonder if that’s regional, or just your grandmother specifically.

If you look at stuff from deep history, it might be a bit smaller (because people were smaller), but the 20th century furniture that makes up the bulk of what you’ll see on the secondhand market isn’t noticeably different.

More kinds of furniture used to be fashionable, that much is true, and if you don’t live in a house as big as your parents (because people tend to move into bigger places until they’re retired) getting rid of the china cabinet might be inevitable.

Yup, I’ve got quite a few things by now, and I’m in line for some more.

I don’t know about a sense of belonging, but a historical thing you’re tangentially connected to is cooler than just a random historical thing.

Negative emotions are human!

Sounds like something a therapist would say. Actually, the usual line is something like “if there’s a bear, negative emotions are very helpful”. (It’s always a bear; never a mugger or a giant rolling boulder. I don’t make the rules)

It’s hard to say over the internet, but either you’re in a crowd where they overuse that line, or your emotions have grown to become unhelpful in your life.

It’s weird that Africanews is covering this. And it seems unlikely uncertainty about which currency to trust is anything new there.

That has been around for decades.

TIL! Then it’s interesting that it didn’t get bigger faster, since the idea of locking people into your product isn’t new. Like, Dell could have been doing in 2000 what Samsung is now with it’s phones, and Linux would have been dead in the water.

Edit: Oh right, there weren’t any SoCs yet, at least at full scale. At the very least, you could always get out your probes and flash the ROM that way.

Should we ban printers because you may print a news article without buying the rights? Should we ban pen and paper because you could use it to infringe on a trademark by drawing it?

Of course, history is over, and all governments and corporations are 100% trustworthy. We don’t need to consider that opportunity for evil can’t actually be eliminated, just moved around. /s

Similar to quattro formaggi, but with only one cheese. Like, the same standard blend whatever international chain puts on every other pizza, and the same sauce and crust, but nothing else.

The concept is American, but American-style pizza is everywhere now. Italy of course doesn’t do it like Americans, and I guess only serving the better version of “cheese” would be in character for France, as well.

I mean, it’s a little bit of a funny example when “but child porn” is often the argument for removing all digital freedom.

So now you can be a cyberpunk black market tech peddler for real?

There are devices now that have a SoC that’s completely locked down at the factory, although maybe none are 3D printers. It deserves more attention as the massive threat to digital freedom that it is.

Yes. They should require a certain number of significant digits, as opposed to just the nearest integer. Although someone’s saying that they actually let you round down from as many as 5 to 0, which is insane if true.

WTF. Like, sure, if you say “no decimal calories needed” it would make sense at the time, and could lead to this by accident. But that’s just silly.

They have some of the best accessibility regulations in the world.

Canada, at least, follows the US convention on this one. IIRC serving sizes are set by the government, though, if that’s any different.

The downside there is that if it’s, like, Marmite, you’ll never ever eat 100g in one sitting. So, you have to do a bunch of math to figure out how much salt is in the actual smear you’re using.

IIRC angels as genderless comes from the scholastics and St. Thomas Aquinas. They tried to reason out (guess, basically) a bunch of things about angels, and came up with them being detached, bodyless consciousnesses that exist at or around a point.

Hebrew, Greek and Latin all have grammatical gender, which must complicate any readings from the bible on the matter. Angels are described as either indistinguishable from humans or completely monstrous - in the case of the ophanim, more abstract or machine-like than animal, even. The fluffy winged person idea came after, and almost certainly was borrowed from Germanic and/or Persian paganism.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the weird teacher wasn’t totally alone in that cracked interpretation, but only because medieval monks can be weird, as well.

Hmm, her. What tradition are you coming from, exactly? I’ve heard the devil described as female before, but it’s usually “he” in my background.

The holy spirit is a funny exception, since it doesn’t have an actual name, but this still feels right, even there.

The sun and moon are other examples. Historically there’s no reason to have a name for them, since they’re the only one. Sol gets called Sol in some contexts now, and there’s Luna, but that hasn’t really caught on - it’s usually “Earth’s moon”.

You can definitely talk about Popes plural, if you don’t just mean the current one.

Huh, where are you? I’d expect it to be one of the offerings most places.

I’m reminded of some of the XKCD Umwelts, where they point out this shit can go both ways at once.

It’s cute when people on the west coast talk about… uhhh… history. Or really old geology, if you include Canada.

It legitimately was for them, if you’re being serious.

Unfortunately, you make a publicly traded company, and it will always act like a publicly traded company, in the end. No pithy saying in the code of conduct will change that. It’s like how every dictatorship tends to become a monarchy.