Wowza. I thought the last wedding I attended was bad, but yours takes the cake. The wedding ceremony was an hour long sermon, but thankfully the worst actual explicit content was a reference to the wife “submitting” to the husband. Which really grossed out me and my entire side of the family & friends (who are largely atheist or non-practising). And then the reception was dry, but at least did have dancing and really good food.

And also I and a few others on my side of the family snuck in hip flasks of booze, which was sorely needed to get through the painfully preachy speeches from the groomsmen. Not one sentence went by without reference to how great god is or how much they and the groom love their sku daddy. The best man’s speech in particular was about ten minutes of saying how much he and the groom loved to go for runs together and then get on their knees and pray together. No, that summary doesn’t overstate the homoerotic undertones.

Zweihander is mostly a video game term for the type of weapon. Historically, in Germany, beidhänder was more likely to be used. Other places had other terms for essentially the same type of weapon. Montante in Spain, or Spadone in Italy. But they’re all essentially the same. Massive swords that require two hands to use and become so large techniques become quite different from longswords. We often see references in texts that describe them as used for crowd control or breaking through spear formations.

Not quite. They get a pass on miracles for beatification, but wording to this page’s “Since 1983” section two miracles are originally required for canonisation. In fact it is the non-martyr blessed who get a pass, since their miracle to become blessed counts and they only need one more.

Remember when some other group tried to ban women with small breasts?

I believe that group was the country of Australia. Tbh I don’t really know what came of that law.

And now it’s back again to permanent light mode. I don’t understand what’s going on.

Yeah, some racists do like to use it. But I’d wager there’s a stronger support for the Australian national flag for racist purposes.

The Eureka flag is also the de facto flag of the Australian union movement.

I was ready to point out that this was not possible because canonisation requires the person have performed two miracles, but then I found out that there is actually a pathway without that:

Very rarely, a Pope may waive the requirement… if he, the Sacred College of Cardinals, and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints all agree that the Blessed lived a life of great merit proven by certain actions.

It’s adding clicks to the video, because he’s well-known.

I’ve definitely experienced this. Not so much with coke, which I don’t care much for either way, but lemonade. Lemonade out of a glass bottle is top tier, followed by the post-mix syrup served at bars. Out of a can though is just not as nice. I don’t care if there’s no rational reason for that to be the case (the post-mix at least might be a different recipe, but Sprite in a glass is surely the same as Sprite in a can).

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I didn’t even get close to figuring out purple. It was just the left-overs.

Tbh the green one jumped out at me immediately. I thought it was very easy. I only guessed it first because ones relating to the form of the word rather than its meaning are usually purple.

I also has to Google Kojak.

Yup, this is exactly it. There are very few software systems whose failure does not impact people. Sure, it’s rare for it to kill them, but they cause people to lose large amounts of money, valuable time, or sensitive information. That money loss is always, ultimately, paid by end consumers. Even in B2B software, there are human customers of the company that bought/uses the software.

The sheer comedy of the guy in this video throwing a baseball and half a litre of water in his pockets made me seek out this community just to share it with others.

I grew up in Saigon. They had just started construction on this line when I left in 2012, and in the many times I visited since it was very clear how slow the progress was. Unfortunately that’s just the way of things in Vietnam, and this project was completely overrun by corruption to an extent that even by Vietnam standards was shocking.

That said, it’s awesome to see it finally done. It’ll be a huge boon to the city, which sorely needs it. When I first went to Vietnam, you would rarely see a car that wasn’t a taxi. When I last visited, the traffic jams were insane. And there has been a systemic widening of roads and demolishing of homes to help accommodate that increasing usage of cars. The same nonsense we all know ruined cities in the west decades ago. But finally having a viable alternative to driving is so excellent news for what is the 5th largest economy in Southeast Asia.

I actually would go further and say that collectively, we are terrible at what we do. Not every individual, but the combination of individuals, teams, management, and business requirements mean that collectively we produce terrible results. If bridges failed at anywhere near the rate that software does, processes would be changed to fix the problem. But bugs, glitches, vulnerabilities etc. are rife in the software industry. And it just gets accepted as normal.

It is possible to do better. We know this, from things like the stuff that sent us to the moon. But we’ve collectively decided not to do better.

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Holy shit, just had a look at their Google Play entry and I fucking love how highly responsive they are to their users. Definitely gonna download it and give it a go.

Sunshine, consider yourself one user closer to overtaking Reddit xD

Huh, I didn’t even know there was such a thing as green onions. I’ve only heard of red and white before.

edit: wait, looked it up. Apparently green onions are what we call “scallions” where I’m from.