I suppose, in fairness, climbing the top part is a bit harder than climbing the bottom part.

Though, if you think about it, quite a lot quicker.

I have heard the (Nepali-speaking) Nepalis didn’t even have a name for it at that point, and I have a feeling Qomolungma wasn’t known to the Brits, because the mountain was surveyed from far away at that point.

Incidentally, “Tibetans and Nepalis on either side of the mountain”- it’s Tibetans on both sides. On the Nepali side are the Tibetan group known as Sherpa, whence we get the term Sherpa for a Nepali/Tibetan mountain guide. Further south than the Sherpa people are ‘Nepali’ people by ethnicity. (And of course properly there’s a lot more than two ethnic groups in a cross section of Nepal!)

But what is the base?

Thing is, that’s a more complicated question than it sounds.

Feeling depressed? Lost? Lacking identity? Go back to your roots. Be an asshole.

Is your friend an asshole? Give them time. They’ll grow into a baby.

We were all assholes once. But with diligence, and nurture, you too can grow into living, breathing, people. Thank you class of '41, and I look forward to seeing you after you’re all born.

The hobby of living? Look, if you haven’t figured it out since the earth formed, it’s going to take you more than a few months to dominate in the universe.

(Also, (as an aside), as an Emacs user I feel it should be written Alt/Meta.)

Is it really? That’s interesting.

Ok

They pass TCP over UDP.

Mystery solved!

Presumably that means you are in fact a Nazi born in 1889

Ah, a fellow 13 year-old.

One of them has a more powerful, focused beam.

Ah, I was wearing a tuxedo and a dress sword, and watching on a bright pink TV with polka dots on the cover. Ergo, I am older?

By that logic, you’re younger than your body and even your mind.

I think the minimum age for online these days is something like 43? Otherwise you have to pretend to be a bot?

I think you just write it in with pencil? So you can rub it out after you’ve turned to the right page.

Are those like wikipedias but circular?

But are you younger than my iPhone?

Ah, the pre-moon generation. Oh to be young.

Bah, n00b. I have sixteen planets already in their second moon-ejection event by the time Earth was starting. You just don’t know about them because you’re too young and still stuck on the v3.0 starter planet.