WhiskyTangoFoxtrot

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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Because precision has nothing to do with it and it’s all about being easy to convert between different units and having sensible zero and 100-points for temperature?

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

It doesn’t fit into the rhyme, but -10°C is the point where just wearing a coat isn’t enough. You need to either start limiting the time you spend outside or put some serious thought into the protective clothing you wear beyond just throwing a coat on as you go out the door.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Don’t Texans just stay in air-conditioned buildings and vehicles all the time? I just saw a YouTube video where a guy in Texas was complaining that his air conditioning setup wouldn’t get the temperature below 76°F, which I found odd since I set the thermostat on my AC to 26°C (which is nearly 79°F.)

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

How often do you convert temperature to different units? Isn’t that what we are stupid for doing?

I was talking about Metric as a whole, where the units of measurement for distance, mass, etc. are easily convertible and the unit for temperature has sensible zero- and 100-points. I would have thought that was obvious.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Why write 36.111 C when you could write 97 F?

Why write 96.8 F when you could write 36 C? Do you honestly believe that we’re thinking about temperatures in Fahrenheit and then just converting to Celsius when we write them down?

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

It’s Microsoft® Pitfall™ now.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

<span style="color:#323232;">WhiskyTangoFoxtrot slaps SuperDuper around a bit with a large trout.
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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

I bought an electric clipper and started cutting my own hair during COVID so I don’t have to worry about that anymore.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Yes, but you’re also AI generated, so those memories are just training data.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

The Selfish Gene was first published in 1976, a year before Star Wars.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

I’m just glad I live in an area that calls carbonated beverages “pop”. I can only imagine the mix-ups that could’ve occurred when trying to use baking soda otherwise.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Yeah, but no one gave a shit unless you read Latin. Nobody cared if you could read and write in those weird grunts the Angles and Saxons made.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

We could send them to the end of the galaxy to compile an encyclopedia of all human knowledge but they’d secretly be there to start the next iteration of civilization through the foolproof strategy of not doing much and just letting the pre-calculated history take its course.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Does your Chihuahua have a cow in it?

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Wait, the snails are training the gorillas? We’re through the looking glass here, people!

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

They fined her, so they obviously thought she did something wrong.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

But you see, that wasn’t real Communism. Communism is a great and perfect egalitarian society by definition, so when it inevitably devolves into just another brand of stratification and oppression then it’s not Communism anymore. Next time it’ll work, though. We’ll still follow exactly the same formula that’s failed spectacularly every time it’s been tried, but this time it’ll work. For reasons. And if you say otherwise you’re just a status-quo liberal (never mind the fact that those supposed status-quo liberals are the ones implementing real tangible change that actually affect peoples’ lives while all the Communists do is endlessly wank about some glorious revolution that’ll happen some time in the nebulous future.)

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Fortunately, “Dracorex Hogwartsia” turned out to just be a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus, not a new species.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

But remember: Even before Order 66 Anakin was slaughtering Sandpeople and creeping on Padme.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Ceiling Cat was annoyed that the girl was reading a book.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

No, they chose Postgres. WiselySQL isn’t even a thing.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

If your search engine used HTTPS (which nearly all websites do now, but it’s possible that you made these searches before that was common) then IT would have no way of knowing what searches you were making.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

You can’t? We just had a summer filled with high-budget flops, and now both the actors and the writers are on strike meaning that the studios won’t be able to recoup their losses any time soon. Add the reduced to non-existent theatre turnout in the first couple of years of the decade due to COVID and there’s been a hell of a lot of money “getting out of Hollywood.”

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Yeah, but he still has to be told to do it all the time.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

All this time I was using the ellipse tool, filling it, then shrinking my selection and deleting.

Ah well, I learned Inkscape recently and it’s a better tool for stuff like that anyway.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

They’ve not brought anything of real value to customers in years.

They made some half-decent BASIC interpreters for 8-bit computers. That’s about it.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Today you can buy a budget pc, and skim on performance, but back then (and I was there man!) you could not.

For PCs? Maybe not, but you could get plenty of other types of home computer for reasonably cheap. A Commodore 64 was $150 in 1985, for instance. Just had to stay away from the absolute bleeding edge.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

It’s gone to Warp 10 and is turning into a newt!

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

You can’t fight P.C. with apples.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Welcome to this place
I’ll show you everything

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Is that David Bowie I hear?

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

The Ace Combat games used them for throttle, rudder and radar zoom level.

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