I’m a teacher and I make Linux work for me. Open doc formats get converted to pdf for the shitty windows 7 running the printer in the printing room, and the Android/Windows only app for communications I just run on my phone. PPTs run fine. When there was a problem with the projector, ‘IT guy’ went to my laptop, got confused (it’s Gnome), I told him not to interfere with it because it’s Linux. He proceeded to say ‘Ah, not working because it’s not windows.’ Later that day he actually came to fix the cable to the projector.

I love seeing you pop in with tidbits of Chinese wisdom

A motorbike. I’ve had a few close calls in a car, I don’t think it would have worked out well on a motorbike.

Oh that’s actually funnily enough the most applicable 2nd person mechanic.

Bamboo scaffolding certainly contributed, but the sheer amount of that green inflammable-looking material plus single pane windows (which probably shattered under the heat), and what apparently was very few fire alarms going off made the spread of destruction much worse.

What we are witnessing is the near-complete isolation of the soul from the truth of everything. We are at the densest stage of evolution, stuck in material bodies and unable to look beyond them. What we see today is the perfect manifestation of it. We will (live) die with so much understanding of it.

Well, I think Einstein was a genius but much of his work was built on Minkowski spacetime, so the conclusions about relativity could have been reached at some point when physicists were starting to work with it. I am in no expert position to judge this, but new developments in science do genuinely build on new insights, and Minkowski built the mathematical and theoretical platform that was evidently available to physicists like Einstein.

I can see my phone in bright sunlight, not sure why it would need to be any brighter except to be brighter than every other phone. On another note, imagine picking up your phone after sleeping and it’s accidentally on manual max brightness. Ha!

Fantastic, I thereby absolve chairs of their duty like most of the people here.

Kanji and Hanzi belong to logograms and are not 100% phonetically indicative.

My external drive is NTFS. It might randomly cock up occasionally but there are guides online on how to fix drive errors, usually just using the native disk management tool. Or just plug in to a windows computer to fix errors. Never an issue, and you might want to keep it NTFS should you need to plug into a windows computer.

It doesn’t surprise me that marketers figured out that people going through a break up is an audience to profit from.

This is probably one of the most genuine showerthoughts I’ve seen in a while. (insert meme of man and woman in bed: woman reckons he’s thinking about other women)

And it doesn’t work on water.

This is actually scientifically proven, you sure you weren’t just recalling a tidbit from the news cycle a while back? Heh.

I think my 8th grade kids would find this funny while we are learning about cellular respiration.

There is something different on that plane but no, it’s not death. Search ‘astral body’ and go from there. Or read the Tibetan Book of the Dead for a general breakdown of dying.

I’m guessing it was just 50-100 pixels more on the bottom to include the artist. Hmm.

Good spot

While I disagree with identifying the working class with ‘chav’, the origin of the word did start very much in classism and stereotyping (hence my deep disagreement with the term). A pretty good analysis in this article: https://eathealthy365.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-chav-in-british-culture/