So manufacturers can bill you monthly for the same features…

Always use the indefinite article… “a”, never “your”. 😉

“TADA!” for short…

So you had the Shazam! TV show based on the Captain Marvel comic book character…

https://youtu.be/9NLuRZ3A76U

Which spun off the Isis TV show…

https://youtu.be/FdBRLV6PGro

Which then turned into a new comic character…

“But on the flip side, my family and friends will see a scary looking command and immediately be put off.”

More to that… these are exactly the people we have all been telling “If you see someone on the internet telling you ‘type this!’ DON’T DO IT!”

ALT-F4 being the benign one.

rm -rf / --no-preserve-root - not so benign.

I remember a story of someone getting the recursive tag wrong on the chmod command and managed to chmod 000 themselves out of everything on the system… including chmod.

For years and years the barrier to entry was mom or gramma buying a clipart CD for $4.99 at the grocery store, bringing it home, and expecting it to work.

Now that’s not a thing anymore, but they still aren’t using it. So I guess the barrier to entry now is they see that ad for the casino app that “pays you real money” and they expect to download it and expect it to work.

Until mom and grandmom can load up the computer with all sorts of malware that breaks everything, they really aren’t interested.

When we start fighting wars over fresh water, Trumps plans for Canada and Greenland are going to be seen as genius…

Who defines “valueless”? In my opinion, anyone who says something like that has no value and so…

Freestyle Libre was my first CGM and as soon as I had the opportunity to switch to Dexcom, I did.

Each new sensor was wildly low or wildly high, with no option to calibrate. It was really only good for measuring changes, not the actual glucose reading itself.

So "Oh, it’s going up, +5, +10, +20… probably accurate, but is it 80, 180, or 240? Use a finger stick to know for sure.

The power differential makes it rape.

In before Trump starts ranting about “the Nigers”. You know it’s only a matter of time…

Because 6 million of them were exterminated in WWII and they have faced centuries of blood libel and hatred.

Don’t confuse hating what Israel is doing with attacking “the Jews”. Totally different topic.

There is some interesting evidence which suggests early humans and related species may have used naturally occurring hot springs to boil food, so it’s not exactly out of the question. It’s not DEFINITIVE by any means, but interesting.

https://www.sci.news/othersciences/anthropology/olduvai-gorge-hot-springs-08858.html

A TV reporter became lost on the back roads and stopped at a farm to get directions. As he was talking to the farmer he noticed a pig with a wooden leg. “This could be a great story for the Six O’Clock News.  How did that pig lose his leg?” he asked the farmer. “Well”, said the farmer, “that’s a very special pig. One night not too long ago we had a fire start in the barn, and that pig squealed so loud and long that he woke everyone, and by the time we got there he had herded all the other animals out of the barn. Saved them all.”

“And that was when he hurt his leg?” asked the journalist anxious for a story.  “Nope, he pulled through that just fine.” said the farmer. “Though a while later, I was back in the woods when a bear attacked me. Well, sir, that pig was nearby and he came running and rammed that bear from behind and then chased him off. He saved me for sure.”

“Wow! So the bear injured his leg then?” questioned the reporter.  “No. He came away without a scratch. Though a few days later, my tractor turned over in a ditch and I was knocked unconscious. Well, that pig dove into the ditch and pulled me out before I got cut up in the machinery.”  “Ahh! So his leg got caught under the tactor?” asked the journalist.  “Noooo. We both walked away from that one.” says the farmer.

“So how did he get the wooden leg?” asked the journalist.  “Well”, the farmer replied, “A pig that good you don’t eat all at once!"