This is called a "folk etymology". Great story, but completely false.

I still have deep-seated, instinctual nightmares of the merg.

I thought pi hadn't been proven to be normal, only conjectured to. My phone number isn't in the digits of pi that we've discovered so far, for example: https://www.angio.net/pi/

I'd still rather play video games than watch a movie, and I'm in my 40s.

Yeah, Retro Game Corps has a great, in-depth video on this if anyone is interested. Good quality, good controls, good screen, good gimmick.

The dealbreaker for me is the legendarily awful combination of shitty, delayed bluetooth, a back-facing speaker, and no headphone jack. The most reasonable way to actually hear your games is by adding an awkward and easily losable dongle, which is not acceptable imo, especially because then you have no way to charge while you play.

Other than the unforgivable audio choices here, it looks like a really great and sleek little device.

Can't wait to hear the tankie apologetics for this one.

Right? I read the OP and was like, speak for yourself!

According to my mathematician wife, "it's got the same problem most paradoxes do in that it's self-referential".

The 'p' is only silent in English because English doesn't allow syllables to start with 'pt'. It was perfectly fine to do so in ancient Greek, where both the 'p' and the 't' would be pronounced, but when English borrowed the 'pt'-initial words, the 'p' gets deleted to make the word pronounceable.

But, it's perfectly fine in English for one syllable to end with 'p' and the next to start with 't', so English speakers have no problem saying 'cop-ter'.

Same with, for example, 'tsunami' vs. 'Mit-subishi' (which in Japanese is actually syllabified 'mi-tsu-bi-shi').

Fun fact: while a much more often occurrence than once in a lifetime, "Thursday the 20th" is tied with "Saturday the 20th" as the least-likely combination of days of the week with the 20th day of the month, even though you'd think the chances would be exactly 1/7.

Here's the math about the Gregorian calendar that explains why. (Even though the post is about Friday the 13th, it straightforwardly can be applied to any other day/date combination as well.)

Yes, I'm aware of that, but being irrational alone is not sufficient. There are an infinite number of irrational base-10 numbers that only contain combinations of 0 and 1, for example, and none of them will contain my phone number, credit card, etc.

Not all irrational numbers are normal numbers, and only normal numbers are guaranteed to behave as described in the OP.

Is it bad that I would legitimately love to live there?

Well this would have been fun if the stupid title hadn't spoiled the whole thing.

As Upton himself said: "I aimed for America's heart, but I hit it in its stomach."

Ah, yes, the native, completely un-Christian culture of... 1400s Italy.

Shoe's never been right wing, and she's steadily moved further left throughout her career.

And Asus is still going strong with the shitty prebuilt GN reviewed yesterday that was the worst prebuilt GN had ever reviewed.

never use my main for anything

Are you sure it's your main?

Yeah, because there definitely isn't a reason why Israel sending troops to other Middle Eastern countries would be a bad idea. It's definitely just because they're a bad ally.

As much of a win as this is, I wish they'd show half as much support for the rest of the rights we're guaranteed by the Constitution.