That’s the longest time I’ve ever heard someone take to build up a comeback. Be on your guard!

There was something wrong here, but the… right kind of wrong.

Looking back, those times were an incredible desert of of titillation compared to the desserts of today.

No, never did find it… But I’m pretty sure now that pen really was his. It was just a mildly unlikely coincidence that he had one just like mine.

I felt at the time that I’d been conned out of some things in the past, and that had me set a bit too hard on “not being fooled again”, so I overdid it.

One particular case I remember is exchanging toy cars with someone, and them claiming later that day that they lost the car i just gave them. So I spent a good few minutes looking for it with them. I even insisted “no, let’s look again” when they suggested we give up. I felt bad that they’d lost out on our exchange, so I gave them back the car they’d given me, just to ease their misfortune. Only to hear the next day how they’d been bragging about fooling me. Gah.

I had a similar thing with a pen, the very same year I think… I had a mildly special pen which one day I lost. Went looking for it and found it sitting on a (slightly older) classmate’s desk, so i grabbed it and said “hey, that’s mine”. He tried to pretend that no, it was his, and he sounded very convincing about it, and even got the teacher involved. They both looked at me with infuriatingly condescending expressions as I explained how it was mine.

The teacher suggested “just let him have it” to the classmate, who conceded.

I went back to my desk fuming and scratched my initials into it before returning to show them, "look, see, it was mine! The classmate immediately pointed out “you scratched those in just now” and I think I mumbled something incoherent before going back to my desk, to the teacher’s mortification with the whole situation.

It had already begun dawning on me at this point that the classmate was right… That wasn’t my pen. It was his and just looked like mine. But it was too late at this point and I didn’t know how to handle it other than to keep quiet and try to forget about it.

Ok, that could be true. I assumed they meant the “building” phase that some frameworks go through.

Except… the compilation step doesn’t add type safety to JS.

As an aside, type safety hasn’t been something I truly miss in JS, despite how often it’s mentioned.

I just funged it. You’ll never get me, coppers.

You meant to type 32, but by putting a full stop after it makes it look like “1.” on a lot of clients because of markup interpretation.

You should try tea that isn’t shocked… Green tea is especially bitter and unpleasant if the water’s too hot. The recommended temperature is 80°C, if I remember right.

But even black tea tastes less bitter if you use slightly rested water after boiling (and if you remove the teabag without squeezing it out). You’re probably used to teas being astringent, but they don’t have to be. They can be smooth and “rounded” and rich.

That’s a great way to make the air inside the teabag expand but not be able to escape through the wet paper, making the teabag float on top of the water like a confused little fish that just escaped a dentist’s aquarium.

That’s not true, it looks like it does improve. More correct and so-so answers.

I think it’s just a good photoshop. The diffuse reflection in the metal part of the stick doesn’t match the grooves.

Plasma would be my recommendation.

They’re not Romanian, they’re US-British. They just moved to Romania because they thought police are less likely to investigate sexual assault cases there.

Great! I can finally relax about my @ryongnamsan.edu.kp email.

This comment is going to age very poorly. It sounds like just every other “progress? not on my watch!” comment people have made throughout history… Like it or not, AI generation is here and it’s not going away, good or bad.

Are you similarly concerned about the recruitment practices in the aggressor country? Having sensitivities so attuned to these things, surely you must have at least equal concerns about Russia.

Would you like to describe those concerns? Perhaps also include some links and examples that have inflamed you in particular?

Sure! Do you need it to react in any way at all?..

More seriously though, there’s a microphone button for the search box, which uses the Google Speech service on my phone. It doesn’t seem like it does a lot with speech though.

That’s a strange veer towards a completely unrelated topic… But anyway, considering that roughly 1 in 100 people are Mormon in the US, it’s not that surprising that 1 in 550 of the land also is. It’s surprising they’re trailing so far behind the average actually.

EDIT: oh wait, you mean the church owns it. Yeah, ok, that is very weird. But Mormonism is a very weird thing by definition…

Or a duck.