Soul sole

“you’re brain dead, you’ve got aalmost as much lead as a motherfuckin bullet in ya head.”

I doubt it’s the main cause, widespread cultural phenomena are normally mostly generated by social interactions (words) and reinforcement, and demagogues (or so they often over-claim).

Poison like that will impact a fairly small proportion and takes a long time to impact and spread. Seems unlikey to be anything major. Besides which many more sources of lead poisoning from paint and leaded petrol, and water pipes and stuff - not specifiic to US and not specific to guns.

Aka chrolling for clickbate.

So I turned the job over to a friend of mine . . .

Your heritage at that (extremely long span of ) time might be a small shrew/rat/squirrel like creature that scuttled around at the time of large dinosaurs. Probably hiding from the the small to medium sized dinos. Too small to be of note to the large ones. Adaptable enough to survive the mass extinction - maybe small, agile, mobile, omnivorous and so on.

This is a contender for an early primate - maybe - I think the fossil record is a lot less complete and harder to interpret for smaller creatures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purgatorius

Of course the dinos changed a lot over that time - as would the mammals. I think Purgatorius is from near the K-T extinction.

There were other larger mammmals around but probably none much bigger than a wolf / lynx/ capybara type thing. I think those types are considered less likely to have evolved into primates and also some might have evolved and re-evolved into something else many millions of years before the K-T extinction.

‘Eggcorn’ is a linguistics term for a new word or phrase that is slightly different to an older one- substituting words that sound smilar- yet still makes sense and has a similar meaning to the older term, for example:

• eggcorn, (acorn)
• mute point (moot),
• free rein (reign - I think reign is older version?),
• towing the line (toe)

Sometimes the eggcorns make more sense to modern speakers than the older term and it may eventually usurp them entirely. I don’t think many peple know what a ‘moot’ is anymore. If ‘mute’ makes more sense to more people it’s likely to grow in popularity.

I don’t know why linguists chose ‘eggcorn’ as the eponym; I’m sure I’ve never actually heard anyone say “eggcorn” to mean “acorn” - apart from me since I learnt about this phenomenon.

eggcorn

I hope the conclusion is that annual notifications work.

wikipedia is too much.

shooting the breeze

I like the way they think

Many microcontrollers can be set up for in circuit programming.

They might be intended for one time programming in the factory, but solder some wires on in the right place and supply the right signal and it can be reprogrammed.

Is that a circuit or a computer?

yes, and the latest “conservative” assailants on UK (maybe mostly English) health system wear red roses on their lapels.

They all see a giant unmilked cash cow wandering around in a short skirt.

Apparently no one is 100% sure whether bloodsucking worms were named after doctors that used them, or doctors were named after the blood sucking worms that they commonly prescribed.

“Leech” being an old timey name for a medical doctor, possibly predating the term “doctor” which just came from “teacher” like “doctrine” or something.

:)

Have you ever tried driving to a place you’d never go?

I’m talking about sotware they produce and my employer buys that i’m expected to use.

I can’t rewrite their “tools” and databases and fucking awful cloud-web front end things. I tend to think multi-billion$ shitware companies should do that; but even so no way I’d be allowed.

Yes, I do end up having to write my own tools choosing whatever free stuff I’m allowed to have, or can get working, Yes, It’s incredibly easy in any half way decent (including free) software, far from rocket science, that is until you try to put something back into a database via one of these “tools”.

So you work around, pre-processing, post-processing, get it working. Then they unexpectedly release a “patch” that sees through my work-a-round and tries to convert the thing i’d convinced it to treat as string into a screwed up datetime again.

Next time, I will prepend “fuckoracleiquit” to all datetimes before they go into the database.

They need to be told a fuck of a lot harder then.

Yes.

If I saw that in a job advert I might just apply without reading the rest. I don’t think I ever have though.

It doesn’t “annoy” me.

I like employers to be open and honest about their various incompetencies. Saves time.

There’s a few other warning signs in that statement too - nice of them sift themselves out so quickly.

Please someone tell oracle and microsoft.

RTFW