Bloemfontein, I think.

I don’t know if they still do, but for a long while IKEA was selling tabletops and shelves that were a honeycomb of cardboard with a very thin frame of some softwood or manufactured wood product, and then a synthetic woodgrain veneer. Super light, and pretty strong… for their weight.

If they do not have a a trio of synchronized crocodiles (alligators may be acceptable depending on setting), I will burn the theater down. I do not care what premise they claim to be doing.

And the need for “progressives” for the nerds who already had their distance vision murdered by genetics and books.

For the Z’ers, “books” are stacks of paper, typically glued together on one side, with a single audiobook or podcast transcribed onto them and displayed in a fixed font.

LOL, fair enough.

I use a fintech for my little glorified garage sale ecommerce site (literally hundreds of dollars of sales so far!). I have no idea how you burn through all that runway to do a slightly better banking app for some random regional bank, plus some agreements with the Credit Card companies and a crypto wallet.

Excellent. Thank you!

I also saw “deputy,” but the common tie seems to be replacing or substituting. I wonder if it was then-current Hungarian jargon for the switchboard operator having to constantly plug and unplug the patch cables.

And Alexander the Great would be proud of her solution at the end of the workday.

The Eternals was a documentary.

That might be even cooler than the brown tie-dye Duel of the Fates shirt I was rocking.

TPM has its charms, but good lord the delusion I invested in trying to convince myself it was better than it was…

Never get involved in a land war in Asia, and never give George Lucas unrestrained creative control.

nowlookhereaintnoneogothicpeninknonsenseahtellyoowhut justsumdangoletexashillbilliessippindangolecocktailsknowhudimean andwearinbowlerhatsandtiesandwatchindeadtreesandguesswhat well… dang.

dangoledwardgoreymaniguessthat’sboutright.

Theorizing about and then venting about Ocean Gate is one of my formative Fediverse memories. God what an ass Stockton Rush was.

I think it only works if you understand from reading other strips that she’s already dating Mister Bignose McLongface and that he’s no saint.

I also love that this version of flat earth theory is perfectly okay with our living on the surface of a huge spherical object floating in space.

He is, he’s just doing it himself.

According to the reddit OP, it’s the Vande Bharat Express in India. The ports look like the typical travel adapter ports that can handle several different plug types, but the UK plug sort of asserts itself visually, LOL.

Only Steam refund I ever got was for a Pool of Radiance re-package. Spent WAY longer than the testing period just generating the party, because JFC was it tedious on early gold-box games, and by the time I started running into bugs (introduced in the update? original? Who even knows?) barely outside the gates to Old Phlan, it was theoretically way too late. I had to explain a forty-year-old game to the poor customer service rep, but I got my 8 bucks back.

I could, but that feels like way too much work.

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I assume it depends on the quality of the work actually done, versus the quality that using the allotted time would have allowed. Scantron test? 100 is 100. Essay question (or particularly a term paper) that’s nice enough but not very thorough? Maybe the teacher has a point.

I was also absolutely told this by at least one teacher, and in my case they weren’t wrong.