Lmaaooo. 1870’s teen boys fucking around with whoever called just because they felt like it.

There’s a more unfortunate take to that as well, but I like to think they were pulling running refrigerator and mike rotch jokes the whole time instead.

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Found the more detailed source;

When the first commercial telephone exchange began service in January 1878, teenage boys were hired as the first operators. However, the young men often played pranks on each other and their customers. Within about six months, the Boston telephone exchange decided to add a female operator, a young woman named Emma Nutt.

That’s what I got from it too. It’s such a dated way of looking at relationships that you have to already be aware of how they used to be depicted in order to get it. I love lucy would occassionally have similar story beats in the earlier show.

Yeah. I’ve been abused by enough games that I don’t bother to even try to exit with the new ones. It’s just quicker and more reliable at this point.

All I had to do to get my cat to respond to her name was to mostly only use it right before dinner time.

She still got mad at me for using any sort of canned food that wasn’t for her, but at least she knew I wanted her attention, and even usually answered, whenever I called her name.

Oh my god that actually looks perfect. Thank you.

If the point of a rating is to be used as a predictor for how much you might enjoy a movie, then it might be worth switching to a three star system and weighing the star choices of other reviewers higher or lower based on how many previous movies you rated similiar to them.

Yeah. In universe his personal human body count is zero. Out of universe, there’s no way the water spirit merging didn’t kill hundreds of fire nation sailors, but as far as the story itself is concerned, aang didn’t actually kill anyone.

https://screenrant.com/avatar-last-airbender-aang-killed-people-pacifist/

The problems with kids these days is that they’re kids, and it’s these days.

It’s why it’s so popular in highschool.

Citation needed.

I’m not arguing it doesn’t affect popularity, just that i don’t think it’s the main reason for the love, or really even in the top three.

Nah. She’s joining in on the race at home, but to get to her bed instead of the finish line.

I expect it’s the same way people treat regular streamers, they’re just a bit less careful about how they talk about their favorite vtuber in public than they way would a regular streamer.

I do love the idea of him fighting the phone for a quarter only to find out it fights back.

Might be mad at the person on the other end.

The biggest one I saw was https://fluxer.app/ it has all the right marketing and investing, but also it had a single dev dumping assloads of code per day, but somehow it wasnt ai coded at all. I’m still watching it, because it got a lot of funding in the last push to see if it failss or if it actually goes well.

I wouldn’t trust anything important on it though.

That is his thing, but the joke here is that his blood is also often represented as wine / grape juice. The unexpectedness of it is where the humor of this specific strip comes from.

That assumes God exists to serve us.

I think the real reason people recommend mint is, while deep down they know users will have a better time on Ubuntu, they cannot stand the idea of recommending that company’s product directly.

I have no guilt when I say Ubuntu, and their managing company, have pulled enough shit over the years that it’s not a good first choice for a new user.

But in practice the similarities are only skin deep and to me if they’re already going to need to learn all the ways it differs from windows, why not put the same effort into learning something that also varies

The average user never leaves the web browser. The average gamer never leaves the web browser and steam. Skin deep is as far as most people ever go.

This not a condemnation, but it’s important to be aware of the differences between the average user, the average gamer, and the average Linux user. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

I had that issue for a while too. It’s gone now, and I have no idea what change did it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Plus I hate the windows style DE UIs so it seems like a weird choice

The average user hates the changes involved in switching away from the windows distro. The thing you hate about it is an objectively good reason for recommending it to a new user.

I have tried it multiple times over the years and I did not have great luck with things “just working” as everyone claims.

I have used it for several years now (with multiple sets of hardware) with no issues. Every single Linux version is going to have something it can’t handle. Linux mint is stable and handles most stuff just fine. A bad experience is possible anywhere, so this isn’t really a good reason to not recommend it for new users.

Having choice is hard.