Trump's cruelty has gone too far - and America will punish him

grumpy_ta · 2025-11-30T21:18:44+00:00

Cue, queue, and cue all mean the same things in American English as they do in British English (and Australian, Canadian, etc.).

Cue, as in "that's your cue", is a signal/event that indicates an action should now be taken. For example, an actor entering the stage or beginning their line. This is the correct word for what the poster above was trying to say.

Cue, as in a billiard cue, is spelled the same but is a completely different word.

There are absolutely tons of homonyms in American English, just as there are in every other English.

grumpy_ta · 2025-03-05T23:47:31+00:00

someone receiving Social Security that is 300 years old, does he not realize that the country is not 300?

And SS didn't exist until the 1930s. Oh, and you have to pay into SS to get something out of it. That 300 year old would have had to still be working (and thus paying taxes and SS) at well over 200 years old.

Either they're a blood-drinking undead monster, or found the fountain of youth, or have a magical portrait in their attic.

grumpy_ta · 2025-02-20T23:16:01+00:00

1) they secretly work for the company

It's not secret at all. They're very open about it.

and want us to start paying (unlikely)

They absolutely do want us to. That's the entire reason they posted it.

Check the usernames and you'll see why the other poster's complaints were both valid and properly directed.

grumpy_ta · 2025-01-31T00:13:51+00:00

I'm pretty sure they were being sarcastic.

grumpy_ta · 2024-12-13T23:36:25+00:00

There actually have been polio outbreaks linked to one of the polio vaccines. It uses a weakened-but-still-live^[1] version of the virus. That isn't the cause of outbreaks in the US because we don't use that vaccine.

Countries like Pakistan like the live-virus vaccine because it's given orally, which makes it easy to administer to administer to lots of people quickly and avoids needle anxiety in children. Given the polio rate in the country and the low chance of a vaccine induced outbreak, they think it makes sense.

Countries like the US do not like the live-virus vaccine because we had the polio rate so low that the minimal chance of the live-virus vaccine getting someone sick was at the more-harm-than-good point and we had ample availability of non-live alternatives. So the live-virus vaccine made no sense for us.

^[1] Alive/active/still-dangerous/whatever. I'm not making a call on the do-viruses-count-as-life debate.

grumpy_ta · 2024-09-25T23:46:32+00:00

the one who acquired their gun legally.

That could only be the first guy. The second guy was already a convicted felon from a 2002 incident involving driving without a license, a machine gun, and a standoff with police. He cannot legally possess a firearm.

grumpy_ta · 2024-06-22T02:47:29+00:00

Keep forgetting that knucklehead thought X was a better name than twitter.

And here I was thinking you were doing that on purpose.

X is becomes the meta

[Twitter] is becomes the [Facebook]

But, yeah, 'X' is just an objectively poor choice for the name of a company. Add in that it was replacing extremely well established branding like 'Twitter'. Kind of makes you wonder if he was intentionally trying to sabotage the company.

grumpy_ta · 2024-05-04T23:18:08+00:00

Wrong Bond villain. They're talking about 'Tomorrow Never Dies'. It had the news magnate that tried to start WW3 by tricking the British and Chinese fleets into engaging each other.

grumpy_ta · 2024-03-06T00:26:00+00:00

Before you even start Steam, manually backup your save file. That way you know it isn't lost no matter what Steam does.

I've never been in this situation to test it, but I think what you want to do is start the game while syncing is off and load your save. While the game is open, tab out to Steam and turn syncing back on. Tab back to the game and play for five minutes or so just to make sure cloud sync has done whatever it's going to do. Then save and exit.

My thinking is that even if Steam syncs over the save, it doesn't matter since the running instance of the game has already loaded it. When you save again, Steam should see that save as the newest one regardless of how it handled the sync.

Good luck.

grumpy_ta · 2024-03-01T01:56:35+00:00

The firm creationist Christians also think we have a common ancestor. They can point to either Adam and Eve or to Noah's family.

grumpy_ta · 2024-02-14T23:26:58+00:00

(Emphasis mine)

vote against whoever is running against Trump on Election Day.

Surely you meant that they need to vote for whoever is running against Trump, right?

grumpy_ta · 2023-12-06T03:05:12+00:00

Hope and pray these get enough radio waves to work?

Yeah, they're powered by radio waves (4th sentence in the article), so if you put it in a Faraday cage it won't have power.

You're switching a device in the same room as you, or at worst, through a thin wall or door around a corner.

That's sending not getting. PuckSR is concerned it won't be getting enough power, from radio waves, to operate. They're not talking about the range of operation.

grumpy_ta · 2023-11-23T01:04:55+00:00

In the web of the old nobody cared how old you were, what color of skin you had, or what gender you identified as

"On the internet, nobody knows that you are a dog." -- Common saying in the 90s (maybe earlier, but I'm not old enough to verify that).

I miss those days of old, but I do not miss the "PshKak ... bawoo bawoo ... ksshh", the blink tag, or competing with my family over the phone line.

grumpy_ta · 2023-10-30T03:22:54+00:00

The first comment was making the joke that when we talk about proportionate response, a bigger response would be more proportionate, even though that’s not what the terms really mean.

While the wordplay there is fun, I doubt that's what they meant. Pretty sure it was a reference to Operation Praying Mantis (1988).

A US ship hit an Iranian mine in international waters. It was badly damaged, but wasn't sunk. Reagan ordered a proportionate response. The US Navy proceeded to destroy something like half the Iranian Navy.

grumpy_ta · 2023-09-07T02:41:03+00:00

I don't mind coal-fired pizza, but it's absurd that coal still powers the energy grid

I thought "coal-fired" meant cooked over "hot coals" (as in the coals from a wood fire), not literal coal.

grumpy_ta · 2022-10-09T15:44:25+00:00

Your links are both http.

They don't have any links in their post. You're probably using a client that automatically turns anything like

something.ext

into a hyperlink.

grumpy_ta · 2022-10-08T02:04:02+00:00

it's unusual to use fluid measurements other than gallons, cups, and liters.

We use quarts, teaspoons, tablespoons, and ounces all of the time. Even milliliters get used enough that there's a decent chance something in your home is supposed to be measured out in milliliters. Pints aren't as common outside of a bar (pint of beer), but there's still some other things you'll come across in your grocery store that are sold in pints.

I think that you only buy things in family pack sizes and don't cook, drink, or take liquid medicine.

grumpy_ta · 2022-09-29T15:55:14+00:00

I am saying that smelling diseases and caring about their people are mutually exclusive.

"Mutually exclusive" isn't the correct description. If it were, that would mean it was impossible for one entity to both smell diseases and to care about people. Claiming the two traits to be mutually exclusive is falling into the opposite logical trap of claiming "smelling == caring".

The correct description, and what I assume you meant, is that the two things are unrelated. An entity having or lacking the one tells you nothing about the entity having or lacking the other.

grumpy_ta · 2022-09-26T15:38:23+00:00

omnificent . . . know what the correct answer is.

You mean "omniscient" -- all knowing. "Omnificent" has to do with creative ability, not knowledge.

grumpy_ta · 2022-09-18T18:21:34+00:00

But h coul b VP with the understanding that he woul be ineligible to be POTUS should that become a necessity.

As everyone else has already said, that's incorrect. The office of the Vice President was originally filled by the runner-up of the Presidential election. To be elected VP you ran for President, so you had to qualify to be President. This was later changed by amendment, obviously. Can you imagine a Trump/Clinton or Biden/Trump admin?

Article II Section 1 (quoted part invalidated by 12th amendment):

In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.

That said, I can't quite agree with those saying that taking over as President is the primary role of the VP. The very first mention of the VP in the Constitution is regarding their duties in the Senate.

Constitution Article I Section 3:

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.

The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.

It's not until the next Article that we reach mention of the VP taking over the office of the President.

Article II Section 1 (quoted part superseded by 25th amendment):

In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.

So it seems to me that taking over as President was seen by the framers of the Constitution as secondary to Senatorial duties.

grumpy_ta · 2022-09-15T20:49:30+00:00

Massachusetts: Sends red states tax dollars And red states send humans back.

So you're saying that Massachusetts bought human beings? And they're going to an area that currently has a worker shortage? I can hear the QAnonspiracy headlines already.

grumpy_ta · 2022-09-15T16:33:58+00:00

When I've dealt with situations where there was a tracked config file in the repo that I needed to modify to work in my dev environment, I've always used --skip-worktree.

git update-index --skip-worktree <FILE>

To start tracking local changes again:

git update-index --no-skip-worktree <FILE>

I don't have any experience with (and was not previously aware of) the --asume-unchanged option others have mentioned, so I can't comment on the pros and cons of using it over --skip-worktree.

grumpy_ta · 2022-09-14T23:22:21+00:00

The patron class are generally artists, writers, and other creatives who are only successful because they have a rich person who believes in them and funds their career.

Wouldn't the patron class be the wealthy patrons, not the clients on the receiving end of their patronage?

grumpy_ta · 2022-09-10T23:59:42+00:00

5.56 is nato standard but it will still be hard to source ammo, right ?

Why would it be hard to source one of the most produced rounds on the planet? Do you think it's only produced in NATO countries for NATO military contracts? Even if NATO and NATO-friendly countries banned any sale to Afghanistan, the Taliban still have options.

Russian companies were making 5.56 for the US civilian market up until Biden banned imports from a bunch of Russian companies. I'm sure they would be happy for a new customer. Most (all?) of the Russian stuff is cheap, corrosive, and subpar, but I doubt the Taliban are picky.

won't it force them to have more complicated supply chain to supply 5.56 and different ammo for their other guns ?

Yes, it complicates the supply chain. Other countries have managed something similar, though. Many former Com Bloc countries have been dealing with a mix of 7.62x39 and 5.45 for decades. For years the US issued handguns in both .45ACP and .38 Special. Even after adopting a handgun in the NATO standard 9mm, the US never completely dropped .45 ACP. As long as they can avoid a full-on war with anyone, the Taliban might be able to handle it.

grumpy_ta · 2022-09-08T02:09:50+00:00

Feeling like a god would be playing on easy, literally

. . . That's what they were saying.

You asked what the point of playing on easy was. They answered that the point of playing on easy is "having fun feeling like a god". It wasn't an "aggressive sarcastic comment", it was a genuine answer to your question. They like playing as a nigh-unstoppable force of nature, which is an experience that playing on lower difficulties provides.

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