The specific pineapples the aristocrats rented were real pineapples; the private jets used by influencers are fake

Thanks, I think I picked up that idea from that SeaWorld. I’ll stop repeating it now.

It’s scientific name is Eudyptula novaehollandiae

It’s common name in Australia in general was ‘fairy penguin’, but there has been effort to boost alternative names because they word fairy was a pejorative name for gay men

The aspect of “board game” we care about here is the way they have a set path that you follow, as opposed to an RPG where the players and GM create the path

One of mine lasted 20 years

I don’t know, but it’s amortised over the life of the machine so surely pretty low. Dishwashers last quite a while

I think Federation makes it hard

I often sort all by new comments and it shows posts with zero comments on the first page, with something posted yesterday with 50 comments below it. Sort is probably difficult

I don’t have a problem with the character, just the way she was written especially in the second film, I didn’t watch the third. And that film was terrible. The plot was bad, all the characters were bad, their adherence to star wars space stuff was bad

I don’t know if the writers were bad at their job or whether they were required to change it

If you have it, you have already agreed that Musk is king of Mars

I don’t think you can exclude where politics intersects with SpaceX. I can imagine, for example, Trump ordering the FCC to shortcut its process and give SpaceX whatever spectrum it wants and I think it would be unfair to exclude politics from the discussion of that

Hand washing uses more water than dishwashers

It’s hard without it as even here there are people who say such things and mean it

A hint is Unix time counts seconds from 1970-01-01

The web, not the internet.

You’re mistaken. He’s good and talented, but you’re mistaking normal human care for humans for awesomeness

I suspect your perception is warped by all the people in power in America right now

Luckily we don’t need to be quite so diligent with the choice of wifi chips as we used to. Too many still have binary blob drivers from the manufacturer

It was reported to be inspired by a joke copyright notice

“Copyleft. All rights reversed”

The kernel is the OS

That is arguable. The opinion that an OS needs userland apps come from those with a Unix background, you need those apps to be a Unix, you need them to be POSIX compliant.

The kernel is necessary but not sufficient, and the S in OS is for system, the kernel is part of the system, not a system entire

You can even go full GNU if you’re willing to live on the bleeding edge and run GNU hurd (now at version 0.9)