rob_t_firefly

I use to think the poles holding up traffic lights were hollow, and there was a person sitting inside throwing switches to change the lights while looking at a watch to keep the timing fair.

I heard this one from a teacher as well when I was very young! And it may well have been the same teacher telling us that blood was made of white blood cells and red blood cells, and I knew from my deep work in relevant fields (paints and crayons) that this combination did not result in blue.

Congratulations!! All the best to you both. 💕

My engagement was the happiest time of my life, right up until the wedding. Ever since then, my marriage is the happiest time of my life.

Not a lie, it's how I remember it working (and complained about at the time) but it's entirely possible they changed things since I deleted.

I almost never wear hats unless it's very cold out and I need a winter hat. So, it would have been a wooly knit hat to keep my head warm.

*This does not include when my spouse and I are shopping at a clothing place and we try on goofy hats off the rack for the lulz.

I most disagree with identifying Anonymous as a group. It was meant to be a label under which anyone could do anything, granted power through what it was specifically not, and the attempts by people both within and without to make it a group destroyed the value of the Anonymous label.

After an abusive relationship had ended and I was rebuilding my life, I spent significant effort going through my stuff and getting rid of things my abusive ex had given me. They may not actually have been cursed, but I certainly felt a lot better when they were gone.

Musk still forces his own tweets, his advertisers, and whatever else he chooses into your feed, even your "following" page. You can't block it.

*EDIT: maybe not anymore? See replies.

Thank you for correcting and clarifying!

Something alive which can scream.

It's a bit clickbaity to say Intel "lost" the PlayStation business when they didn't have it to begin with.

Sony has been using AMD CPUs for a couple generations of PlayStation now. Moving over to Intel would have screwed up backward-compatibility, adding a ton of work and striking a huge blow to efficiency if anything were going to be backward-compatible down the line and also thrown that monkey wrench into the works of any developers publishing for both generations during the switchover. The article touches on this a little bit.

Intel would have needed to present some magically miraculously sweet deal for Sony to even consider switching, and especially when Intel is doing generally crappy I can't see that being an easy thing for them to figure out.

I accidentally switched to Neopets, now I have to take care of a stupid cartoon bird thing.