Since I don't see a link to it in the discussion, here's an internal email from yesterday that has made its way to the Verge: https://www.theverge.com/...

I wouldn't've, that's for sure!

As an American, I'm in agreement with that in concept. Partition would be a harrowing process though, as people scramble to go where they feel they belong. I'm not sure such a process could happen without another civil war.

She hasn't been charged and convicted yet, so news outlets have to say alleged (innocent until proven guilty in a court of law) to cover their asses from lawsuits.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/20/ towards the end he covers this sort of scenario in the form of a diamond sphere.

Just over half of those who voted said yes, there's still a lot of us who voted against this and watched in horror as the remainder proceeded to fuck us over. From those of us who voted against this: we tried our best and hate this as much as the rest of the sane world. Good luck trying to salvage things out there, it's going to be increasingly difficult for us to act openly against this soon. If you can, put the thumbscrews to us in whatever way you can. We'll suffer, but then again we're already going to be.

I'm staying; I may go and check in on my old subreddits periodically, but my new home is here.

I'm assuming you're talking about the YouTuber; It's been since before the pandemic that I've watched AvE, what did he do?

Let me pop in as a high school teacher in the US. I make decent pay, but it took me over a decade climbing the pay ladder to reach this point. It's only been in the last five years that I've made enough to afford the mortgage on a house (well, prior to all of the rate hikes, but that's another issue entirely). But there's another problem: You're expected to put in 10% of the value (even with first-time buyer incentives) as a down payment (I last looked with any seriousness in '22). I have yet to be able to put away 5% of the average costs in my region, much less 10%. Every time I start building back up, other costs drain most or all of that within a year or two. Unless the housing market bursts big time, I'm not likely to be able to afford a home anytime soon. Note: I would rather keep renting than take a variable-rate mortgage; the last three years have seen previously affordable mortgages with variable rates go sky-high.

When our best friends were getting married and we met at the rehearsal dinner. Her best friend had been trying to get us to meet for years (our work schedules and lives in general always kept us from meeting). Within two months we were dating and have been together ever since.

He's caught in a catch-22 with that idea; if he uses his expanded powers he may well spark another civil war, but if he doesn't, we face possible (perhaps even likely) conversion to a fascist dictatorship. I'd honestly prefer breaking up the country to the alternative.

I'm reminded of this: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

For me it was during the development of Diablo 3 when Blizzard acted like a bunch of children over community comments/concerns about the art style/direction of the game. I don't feel like I've missed out on much, honestly.

As someone whose family is from Altoona, let me say that the abomination that is that pizza is not widely available in the city (a number of people in my family didn't even know of it's existence until the last decade or so) and most locals find it as baffling and disgusting as the rest of us. I'm also unsurprised that someone there would rat him out in hope of a reward, that city is the corpse of what it used to be, now stuffed to bursting with low-wage retail and healthcare jobs. It's also a conservative bastion, go figure.

While I know you're being funny, for those unaware, the snakes being referred to with St Patrick were a euphemism for the non-Christian beliefs in Ireland.

What a terrible day to have eyes.

As a Latin teacher I can back up your assessment; well done! And 100% agree on Cicero, especially his private letters.

It's my daily driver; the benefits of mint with the stability of a Debian base.

Ah, what a shame, he had some good stuff.

Another teacher here, I picked up an interest in computing in general from my dad when I was young (got my start on an old C64). As I grew up we both discovered Linux and it's been a slow burn ever since. My first self-hosted service was Emby and a simple file server, followed by a personal Moodle instance. I eventually moved to Proxmox for hosting my services and have steadily expanded my list as I become ever more dismayed by cloud hosted services and subscriptions.