On both the Android and iOS stock keyboards, you can just hold the hyphen key to get other dashes, too. You don’t need to go hunting for it.

ACABC, thus ACABCadabra alakazam.

Totally agree – that’s why I park my truck in the right lane of the three-lane highway near my office. The traffic still has two lanes to use, it’s plenty of space.

My neighbors in my apartment block have been complaining that I’ve filled one of the elevators with storage crates, too, but there’s another elevator and a set of stairs, so I don’t know what’s got them so upset.

It’s a reflection of the podium and stage:

Indeed, here’s Genesis 9:3, right after the Quite Big Flood:

Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

Likewise in the UK. I’m less sure about the efficacy and ethics of speeding fines than many people in this community – not to say they shouldn’t exist, just that I’ve seen plenty unreasonably low restrictions in places where there’s no heightened risk to the public, and that I’m not convinced that motorway/interstate restrictions are useful to the degree they’re enforced – but having the registered owner take the risk if the driver doesn’t own up seems entirely reasonable.

Foddy’s most recent game, Baby Steps, is getting good reviews. I’ve not played it myself, but it’s a 3D game in the same genre; you’re a very unfit basement-dwelling 30-something who gets teleported (in your onesie) to the wilderness, and you’re trying to manage your balance as you make your way to a mountain.

That does seem to be the case - it’s specifically Best Buy and they seem to have fed the spec sheet into an LLM to generate a description.

Small amounts of dirt are going to harbor bacteria, and a soak and rinse (and a light scrub, if it’s produce that can be scrubbed) will actually make a notable difference to the pathogen count. It’s not magic, but it’s good practice.

There’s been listeria outbreaks on waffles the past two years.

NO ONE TOLD ME I HAD TO WASH WAFFLES

There’s a non-obvious freeze function in the Task Manager - for as long as you hold the Ctrl key, it’ll stop updating the list. I have no idea why this functionality is hidden, but I guess Dave Plummer had some unusual ideas about UX.

For sure, but when he says the right things to disillusion a fraction of the supporter base, let’s recognize that even if he is a part of the problem.

White Ninja is a blast from the past! I’m sure I had a bunch of favorites, but this one jumps out at me:

When you install LibreOffice now, the set-up guide encourages you gently to use the newer, friendlier tabbed interface. I don’t know if the same is true for in-place updates.

If you don’t love getting dog shit on your newly washed car, you should have thought of that before living 2-3 counties away from a future Float-a-Poo owner, and you have only yourself to blame.

Continued exchange from Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (2006):

Kurt said, “You just said they’re gone. Which is it?”

Dr. Halsey considered a moment and then replied, “Both. The quantum-mechanical implications do not translate to simple, nonparadoxical, classical terms.”

“Then let’s stick to practical terms,” Kurt said, growing annoyed. “Are they safe?”

She tilted her head, considering, and then replied, “You could detonate a nuclear warhead on these pods and because the extruded Slipspace within is not in this dimension, there would be no effect to their contents.”

It’s Dutch with a few cute changes, I think. My Dutch is very weak, but I believe it’d be:

we [zijn] [heel] hard aan t werk om dit te [maken], [mischien] kan je beter [fietsen]

which gives a rough literal translation of something like:

we are very hard to the work for this to do, maybe can you better cycle

i.e. “we’re working hard to sort this out, but maybe it’d be better if you cycled”

Don’t forget Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair and the gold Sharpie.

To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is always a photo of him — generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers. I almost feel sorry for the poor fellow because, to me, the fingers still look abnormally stubby.

(I think this photo is actually a reconstruction by BBC Newsbeat rather than a Short-Fingered Vulgarian original, but still).