Not a Western thing, an Anglophone thing. English normally doesn’t end words with the “eh” sound, but French often does, and French words that get adopted into English tend to go through a similar sound change—for instance, “parfait” is pronounced “pahr-feh” (more or less) in French, but “par-fey” in English.
Sensible people had rather deal with ice than with ICE.
The last Ontario election was pretty much deliberately planned to minimize voter turnout—bad timing and so little public information that many people didn’t even realize it was happening. You can’t vote in an election that you don’t even know is taking place.
Sanda seems cool, but I’ve only seen the first few episodes and I don’t think it’s on CR or Netflix.
It’s on Amazon. Surprisingly thematically heavy when it isn’t being utterly batshit. I’ve been enjoying it, anyway.
Being nabbed for dissent requires having a strong opinion on something that’s at odds with the preferences of the Powers That Be, and not being afraid to speak up about it. I would guess that that’s only a small percentage of social media enthusiasts—less than a third, and I’m being generous there.
Unfortunately, this won’t happen, because the people most interested in social media tend to be those with the least interest in privacy and least understanding of data breaches and how to prevent them. Would be nice, though.
To be exact, the geometry of a moose makes it so that a lower-built vehicle will hit it in the legs, knock it over, and cause it to land on the hood, and quite possibly on the people in the front seat. This is in addition to the deceleration from hitting a critter that can weigh more than 500kg. Best result, if you managed to brake before hitting it, is a completely shattered windshield and deformed vehicle hood before the moose gets up and flees back into the bush. Worst result . . . well, I grew up in moose country, and the uncle of one of my elementary school classmates died in a moose collision.
Rather like the proportion of spam to legitimate email.
You don’t, really, although “crime spree traced to out-of-work voice actor!” sounds like a plot from a Saturday morning cartoon several decades ago.
sysklogd is still around as well.
We’ve already seen that Gnosia can voluntarily out themselves. I don’t really see much difference between that and betraying a teammate, but then a lot of the “rules” in this show don’t hold together when you look at them closely from the outside, anyway.
To be exact, there is a noun “affect” whose plural would presumably be “affects”, but it’s a term of art in psychology and absolutely not the word that is wanted here.
It seems unlikely that keeping this service would make a significant dent in their bottom line, so why?
Next up was one that I noticed back when it was first shown, but had since forgotten about and just happened to stumble across a couple of weeks ago - Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? I thoroughly enjoyed it and especially liked the way they expanded such a simple concept into such an enormous and convoluted plot, but that enormous and convoluted plot was, as I began to suspect about halfway through, sort of a problem. It’s one of those light novel series adaptations that takes the route of telling its story in detail rather than condensing it, and that meant that it didn’t really manage to finish anything before it ran out of episodes. It even ended on multiple cliffhangers. I’m tempted to read the LN, just because I really did like the story and the worldbuilding, but unfortunately it’s probably more likely that I’ll just forget about it again.
I’ve read part of it—not to the end, but well past the point that the anime got to. It just gets more convoluted, and the focus shifts away from Everyone’s Favourite Spider to a more ensemble-y situation, or at least that was my impression at the time. (We do find out why she ended up as a spider, specifically, though—it wasn’t random.)
It’s been a while, but I think this was the story where a bunch of the characters were fighting an elf in a mecha at the point I left off, if that gives you some idea of the level of insanity involved.
Because they fired the QA department years ago, in favour of non-rigorous testing by users crazy enough to run whatever Microsoft’s version of a nightly build is. Because there’s no testing plan, some sets of conditions never do get tested.
If Bing’s database isn’t good enough for you, Startpage supposedly uses Google’s database and doesn’t shoehorn AI into the results. You’ll want an adblocker, though. (My usual order of query is Duckduckgo, then Startpage, then Mojeek if the other two didn’t find anything useful.)
Yeah, I’m told by someone with some understanding of the billing system that it is weird (like, the number of hours doctors are allowed to bill for has only a loose relationship with the number of hours actually worked). If the system makes no sense to begin with, it’s no surprise that the numbers look awfully strange.
My guess would be that there is a problem, but it’s smaller than it initially appears.
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The “O” word, actually: oligarchs (or their relatives or best buddies). Chances are that at least some of them are under sanction in more civilized countries.
It is, but it’s so divergent these days that 90% of Mozilla patches won’t even apply to the codebase (and presumably vice-versa). My conclusion is that Pale Moon and Goanna are capable of surviving if Firefox development ceases.