Gotta buy a new JPU for better Jrafix

They’re the same G.

Bah! I knew it didn’t look right when I wrote it.

I believe that’s the origin of the current trend. Typing on a T9 keypad.

There was a parallel ‘733t sp34k’ trend on bulletin boards around the same time.

I imagine that they merged to some degree.

Some people just want to see the world burn.

post-instrumentality fuckery

It is hard to distinguish that from the pre-instrumentality fuckery.

It’s an affectation of The Register they like reporting real news with a sometimes quirky voice. It’s also British so some of the language and humour doesn’t quite work as well in other parts of the world.

Probably. It does happen.

Fun fact. Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, orbits the wrong way which means it was gravitationally captured by Neptune at some point.

Really weird book that one, even for Banks. Tangents or is it Inversions?

Both Mars’ moons (Phobos and Deimos) are asteroids. They’re really small.

“Hydrostatic equilibrium” is the term (I think) for when a body is massive enough for its gravity to pull it into a spheroid. E.g. Ceres is about 950km in diameter and is ‘round’.

But cousin, why a spoon? Why not an axe or a knife?

I can’t think of one that would be as universal as the sir/ma’am pair.

I think it’s probably most polite to ask them.

Or at least to assume one or the other, use it with an enquiring tone, apologise if corrected and move on.

If you start the ‘cancel’ subscription process it’ll offer a non-ai option back at the original price.

Or at least it used to closer to when they pulled that stunt.

Battle Beyond the Stars is just The Magnificent Seven in space, which was The Seven Samurai in the west.

Is he the “this ship is… fucked” guy?

Tsar/czar and kaiser are derived from caesar.

I’m going to assume that ‘king’ probably does in some tortuous way.

cordwainer

Oh ho! A new word for me!

For the other 9,999:

A cordwainer is a shoemaker who creates new shoes from new leather, distinguishing them from cobblers, who primarily repair shoes.

Cynically? To keep the FTC and regional equivalents off their back by funding their competition (Mozilla, for example).

Genuinely? There are possibly a few teams within the behemoth of Google that actually do want to support the green software they use. The value of that support is probably small enough to be hidden in a departments costs so doesn’t get noticed by the pigs in command.

Therapy is only necessary if it causes the person significant distress.

I’d interpreted OP’s post as ‘yhis is bugging me’ and didn’t explain well that I meant some therapy to explore if its a problem.

All enter the arena and are all instantly vaporized by a death ray.

The peasants rejoiced.