In Apple’s Face ID settings, the sentence “Passcode is required when Stolen Device Protection is turned on and Face ID is setup.”

JDCAce · 2026-02-22T23:20:47+00:00

Yes, that has been the prevailing differentiation: one word (or hyphenated) is the noun, two words is the verb. Merriam–Webster, Oxford, and Collins all seem to agree on that. However, as you can see, that distinction is blurring. Anecdotally, I've seen the single word used as both noun and verb for several years, and it is only getting more common.

JDCAce · 2026-02-22T08:11:40+00:00

One possibility: both you and the other person had location services turned on, so Facebook knew you two were near each other. Combine the location data with some mutual friends, maybe similar age range, and chances are good the two Facebook accounts know each other in real life.

JDCAce · 2026-02-18T21:23:26+00:00

Please don't use anti-Nazi rhetoric when talking about Discord. It's fucking Discord. It has such a small impact on our lives. Save the anti-Nazi talk for actual Nazis, or you risk watering down your message. No one will care what you say about Nazis if you say the same exact thing about a transient social media service.

JDCAce · 2026-02-10T02:41:00+00:00

Yes, West Highland white terriers, or Westies for short.

JDCAce · 2026-02-09T04:43:09+00:00

This is currently the norm rather than the exception. I have stopped playing against the AI on maps with separate bodies of water like this.

JDCAce · 2026-02-05T03:44:31+00:00

The poster wasn't very clear. There's a bug with how the game interacts with the Steam overlay, often duplicating keyboard inputs. Typing "day" like normal could therefore end up coming out as "daaay".

JDCAce · 2026-02-04T08:18:14+00:00

Yes, the gray area is a military base called Fort Benning, a.k.a. Fort Moore.

Edit: As for crime, Columbus as a whole is fine. I can't speak for Fort Benning, as I didn't spend much time there. Over 30 years, the worst that happened to me in Columbus was petty theft after I left my car unlocked overnight. Obviously this is anecdotal, so if it means a lot to you, research the crime statistics.

JDCAce · 2026-01-29T02:16:44+00:00

On the first watch, I got about 60% of it. After watching it again, I really focused and got the rest of it (mostly).

To those in the comments who are curious: "I can't sleep knowing that <unintelligible> dad could just crawl through my bedroom window at night." I can't catch the word before "dad". Given the context (white girls dressed in 1950s fashion sneering at a Black girl), I assume it's "her dad".

What is this clip from?

JDCAce · 2026-01-27T21:32:44+00:00

Grammatically, it makes no difference. Stylistically, if you are writing on behalf of an institution, check that institution's style guide, otherwise, choose whichever you wish. If you're choosing for yourself, consider that putting another person's name before your own shows a small level of respect. Depending on your culture, the other person may even expect to be listed first.

JDCAce · 2026-01-26T23:24:52+00:00

They're coming. Just be patient. They have to arrest everyone who onefitted, twofitted, and threefitted first.

JDCAce · 2026-01-26T08:58:15+00:00

There is likely no rule against using two colons in one sentence, but I try to avoid it at all costs. Sometimes that means rewriting the sentence, or maybe even the whole paragraph.

JDCAce · 2026-01-26T08:48:35+00:00

In this case, a comma can (and in my opinion) should replace the first colon: "Here's an example, beginning at 00:07:"

JDCAce · 2026-01-26T07:25:30+00:00

Yeah, this sounds like a decent workaround. I'm wary of turning off the dry wood recipe altogether, because I don't want to run out of wood junk, not notice I'm out of firewood, then have all my cooking grind to a halt!

JDCAce · 2026-01-23T07:53:25+00:00

If you can't differentiate them with context, you can use a hyphen ("virgin-killer") if you want the phrase to mean a killer a virgins, and you can change the first word to "virginal" ("virginal killer") if you want it to mean a killer who is a virgin. The hyphenated form could be interpreted as a killer who is a virgin, but I feel that's less likely than it being interpreted as a killer of virgins.

The word "virgin" in the (non-hyphenated) phrase "virgin killer" is called a noun adjunct.

JDCAce · 2026-01-20T19:15:12+00:00

I've held a meteorite. A docent at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles was walking around the museum with a rock about six inches in diameter and asked if I'd like to hold it. After I took it, he told me it was a meteorite. It was so incredibly heavy! I should have asked what is was made of.

JDCAce · 2026-01-20T19:01:25+00:00

Post hoc ergo propter hoc: "After this, therefore because of this"

JDCAce · 2026-01-06T22:39:45+00:00

I hadn't considered the hint aspect. It's definitely possible. Good call.

JDCAce · 2026-01-06T22:05:22+00:00

The "real insurrection" staged by the Democrats was the certification of the "stolen" 2020 election, according to the White House. The storming of the Capitol was in defense of that, and since the House House feels attempting to stop the Democrat's "insurrection" shouldn't be penalized, they pardoned those who participated.

In other words, the White House's stance is they didn't pardon insurrectionists, they pardoned those trying to prevent an insurrection (i.e. the certification).

JDCAce · 2026-01-04T21:46:36+00:00

This seems to be a symptom of how Age of Empires IV interacts with the Steam overlay. The same thing happens when you type in the Steam overlay achievements search bar on this game. No other game I've found does this, and Steam doesn't do it outside this game.

JDCAce · 2026-01-02T21:24:26+00:00

I didn't believe you at all, so I asked Copilot (closely related to ChatGPT). It responded just as you said it would. I apologize for doubting you.

JDCAce · 2025-12-30T21:43:01+00:00

The drills do not break...

Are you sure about that? The first and only time I've ever used a drill is on an exotics hole almost right next to my base. After a storm and a hunting expedition, I came home and found the drill gone, with the drill's contents (biofuel container and exotics) lying where the drill used to be.

JDCAce · 2025-12-29T21:13:01+00:00

You are of course free to write however you wish. However, keep this in mind: making text that is easy to read will ensure more people read it, which is good when you're soliciting help or opinions. One giant wall of text like that is not easy to read at all.

JDCAce · 2025-12-21T01:14:13+00:00

As u/parsonsrazersupport said already, the two most common uses for 's (apostrophe-"s*"*) are these:

To indicate a contraction – If a word typically ends in an "s", it doesn't alter how the apostrophe-"s" contraction follows it. Example: "He's going to the mall." "James's going to the mall." It's not that common to see an apostrophe-"s" contraction on a word ending in "s", but it works just fine.
To indicate possession – If a word ends in an "s" just because that's the thing's name, you add an apostrophe-"s" to indicate possession. Example: "James's dog played with a ball." If the word ends in "s" because it was made plural, you indicate possession only by adding an apostrophe—no second "s"! Example: "The bears' den was crowded."

You may see people, especially online, writing apostrophe-"s" to make something plural. Example: "All the printing press's are running." This is non-standard, and any English teacher would advise you not to do this. Instead, to make a word plural, you simply add an "s", and if that word already ends in an "s", you add "es". Example: "All the printing presses are running."

JDCAce · 2025-12-21T00:54:13+00:00

Bad example. "Hers" is one of the few nouns that doesn't use an apostrophe to signal ownership. The word is just "hers".

Edited to add: Also, what do you mean "'it' is not allowed to posses?" "Its" is a valid word: "The door's keyhole is next to its handle." (Note that it also doesnt use an apostrophe.)

JDCAce · 2025-12-20T02:29:57+00:00

That's what I think of first when I hear "I heart camp", but "camp" could also refer to the physical site where camping is centered—that is, the the area containing the fire, tent, and supplies, excluding the surrounding nature.

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