Lego vs Legos appears to be another North America vs The rest of the English speaking world thing. A collective noun feels weird to my American ears since they are individual pieces that are countable. It’s not a big deal though. I enjoy having different ways of talking.

Survival mechanics only work when the elements are the main antagonist like in Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (the zombies are just obstacles blocking my path to the fridge)

The extra u’s don’t bother me but spelling check as cheque to distinguish between a bank check and other senses of check is ridiculous. Especially considering a bank check has the same etymological roots as the rest

This makes sense. I’ve never studied Dutch but whenever I see it I somehow know what it says.

How shibboleth came to mean password or dog whistle instead of an ear of wheat is from a pretty dark bible story:

And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

Bro looks like the last Q-tip in the box

Motherfuck you!

Sometimes I lose my shit when one of the many Stack Exchanges yet again asks me to log in with google and accept cookies while blocking half the screen.

Also Omar Fateh for mayor of Minneapolis, Abdul El-Sayed for senator of Michigan, Kat Abughazaleh for Illinois representative, and probably more I’m not aware of. It’s encouraging to see candidates like these get traction.

Chipotle is another one. The tl phoneme is a good clue that it’s a Nahuatl word since it’s uncommon in European languages. That also means the t is at the start of the third syllable rather than the end of the second, chi-po-tle

Oh god, I’m at the airport right now. Don’t let it be me.

And it took a bunch of labor strikes with brutal crack downs on them to even get it down to 40 hours.

Other comments mentioned squats and deadlifts but the upper back is important too. Pullups and especially dead hangs are great for countering the effects of sitting at a desk.

Once you get your grip strength up you can hang and just let your spine decompress. It feels great. You can also do the opposite and keep your core engaged (AKA hollow hold) to build strength.

I played sports growing up but never had a strong core until I did this in my 30s. It was kind of shocking because I could suddenly do things like V ups with ease which used to make me shake uncontrollably.

A peek inside the mind of Nick Mullen

Heh, 8008 is slightly highlighted

The amount of slander against highly divisible numbers is this thread is appalling. How are you gonna split the bill with 2 friends with only 2 and 5 as factors? Virgin 10 vs Chad 240

Jeri Ryan really let herself go

I once made test users who were all named John Smith in different languages. I learned that basically every name is a variant of John.

Dumb ass cop is holding the gravity fed paintball gun sideways

Nah, they had it right