57 year old or so.

Dinner, as the main meal, used to be closer to midday in agrarian times, with the evening meal being a light supper. Only the industrial revolution, with workers spending most of the working day in the workplace, changed this.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer company

Remortgage your house now.

Also, scientific papers would be as likely to be published in German or French as in English, and when computers appear, technical terms and keywords would probably not be in American English. This universe’s equivalent of FORTRAN or the UNIX command line may be based on German grammar.

“Cat/dog dad/mom” implies that the pet is forever a child, due to their species. rather than a fellow adult equal (species differences notwithstanding) in dignity. I prefer to think of them as chosen family, or possibly the weird housemate.

The earth is flat; it’s just space that’s curved.

Traditionally Islam prohibited the depiction of any living forms (Allah’s copyright or something like that), which is why traditional Islamic art and architecture lean so heavily into geometric patterns.

That’s their lesser-known offshoot, Girl Special Forces

Hey, if it worked for the House of Habsburg, it can work for your oil dynasty as well.

“I have a sportsball team I support, and I like watching TV”

He found himself in England.

I’ve only seen one episode, the San Junipero one. I can’t wait to watch the rest. I do love some cozy, optimistic sci-fi.

The related program to control the venomous spider population was a failure because they couldn’t find a scientist who could imagine being here to fuck spiders

if people will wear Crocs in public, I wouldn’t rule it out

It is a law of nature that if something cannot go on, it will stop.

If a band’s merch is in a Sony Music warehouse, are they really punk? Or are we talking heritage punk like The Clash?

Looks like AI slop to me.

They should prosecute the importers for conduct engendering life

Nature is healing