@RegDwigнt I'm sorry, I should have been more specific. Not the way things are currently going, but the trend of how things look to be going. e.g. "I wish more cars came with naturally aspirated engines." "Well, emissions standards are getting tougher, that's just the way things are going these days."
@Robusto my point is more like, it's not so much vain to think that Google knows it, it's that it's vain to think it gives a fuck about knowing it. They could spy on you. But they don't. That's how unimportant you are.
@Robusto those entities don't wish harm on anyone in particular, either. They are just evil in general. Unless it's Nortonn S. But nobody shares anything with that sod, so you're safe.
@RegDwigнt My first thought was "that's just the way the wind is blowing these days", but I got the impression from a Google search that the expression "the way the wind is blowing" is more often used in terms of wanting to gauge opinion, rather than in a "don't fight it, just accept it" kind of way
@Cerberus Who is? Before Unix and After Unix. The epoch in computer timekeeping is the zero point. The Unix epoch is 1970-01-01 00:00:00 -0500, so "epoch time" is how many seconds since then. I'm saying this badly. I'm sorry.
@RegDwigнt The way I understood it, "I want a naturally aspirated, high-performance station wagon. But emissions standards are tightening up such that the small number of projected sales would not be enough to recoup the investment, given the tighter emissions standards. It would make more financial sense to design another cookie cutter, hybrid crossover for soccer moms. Ah well, that's just the way the winds are blowing these days."
You said the metaphor was broken for emissions, I thought it worked perfectly fine. I was just explaining myself. Sorry if that came across as overthinking, I'm often guilty of doing that.
@Robusto I listened to some crazy waltz last night. It was all over the place. And I kinda liked it, but I also thought never ever am I going to go for this nonsense.
@Cerberus Non est enim consilium in volgo, non ratio, non discrimen, non diligentia, semperque sapientes ea quae populus fecisset ferenda, non semper laudanda dixerunt.
Which means Fox News and stealthfully targeted "social media" lightning wars. Not only have we sown the poison seeds of our own destruction by deliberate algorithmic design, we have fed and watered them as well, and harvested them for our daily bread.
@RegDwigнt It doesn't matter if you shun all social media and its spamvertized feeds. Most people are lured to it like the moth to the flame, and thus the nation was lost.
Ya, It's a Pome for RegDwight
The time has come, you knew it must,
To cease abusing our chat-room trust.
For you to show us the proper deference
You'll have to allow us to give you reference.
In short, it's time to stop being a dick:
Just dump the annoying faux-Cyrillic.
There's a billion dumb bitches on Instagram that just post the same dumb selfie ten times a day over and over again. And it's not like even changing. It really is exactly the same. Angle, location, hairdo, clothes.
You could get all echauffé about that, or you could just, you know. Follow someone else. And never even see that bitch again.
I follow like Adam Savage. Tim Minchin. Simone Giertz, the queen of shitty robots. Adam Neely, Nahre Sol, Katie Melua, musicians. And some bakery in Hamburg of all places. Where I've never even been. And that's pretty much it. All good people.
On Twitter I follow like half the cast of Firefly. And nobody else.
You can pick and choose. And so I do.
I ain't seeing no Trump.
Anywhere. Ever. At all.
Never heard of Strava tho. For reals. Gotta google that.
Oh fuck me that's like sports and doing things. No. Twenty years ago, maybe.
The idea is that there is a contest, or a battle, between two opponents that are so equally matched, so eternally against each other, that they end up both destroyed. But this doesn't happen until all forces, all resources have been marshaled for one or the other side up-to optimum efficiency. Yo...
My 1-year kid has a plastic ball that is decorated with all 26 letters from the English alphabet and besides each letter is an image. I suppose the images are of words in English that begin with each of the letters. That works for all of them, except for the Y, which image looks like an axe to me...
I just stumbled upon a Reddit post titled:
My wife and I's seafood collaboration dinner. How does it look?
Sure enough, the top comment immediately points out that it should be "my wife's and my". However, a cross-post to the Grammar subreddit produced the following comment:
It's fine a...
My 1-year kid has a plastic ball that is decorated with all 26 letters from the English alphabet and besides each letter is an image. I suppose the images are of words in English that begin with each of the letters. That works for all of them, except for the Y, which image looks like an axe to me...
I actually went there the other week to promote my LEGO walrus. And they had just rolled out a new layout that is bloated as fuck and loads the entire PirateBay in the background. Won't show anything for 5 minutes on an octo-core with 4 Gigs of RAM.
The idea is that there is a contest, or a battle, between two opponents that are so equally matched, so eternally against each other, that they end up both destroyed. But this doesn't happen until all forces, all resources have been marshaled for one or the other side up-to optimum efficiency. Yo...
Non-native speakers often get confused about what the various tenses and aspects mean in English. With input from some of the folk here I've put together a diagram that I hope will provide some clarity on the matter.
I offer it as the first answer to this question. Consider it a living document....
@Cerberus Well, in some contexts, no. But it with the preposition auf it feels like it would be accusative to me if it were a noun. Just a feeling. So there.
Camouflage is form and color that blends with the environment and for example make it difficult for a predator to spot a prey... But what is the correct word when the "camouflage" is not made to blend in?
The best example is perhaps the zebra: Black stripes on white doesn't exactly blend in. ...
For example, if someone says “I love your art. It reminds me of that movie, Avatar” and you happen to think Avatar is a horrible movie.
I wouldn’t say it’s a “backhanded compliment”, because it was well-intended.
A word or phrase that someone says frequently is called what? As an example, a friend says the phrase "Faithful God" frequently, say 15 times in day. So, what English word defines the term "Faithful God" with respect to the friend?
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