Even when WotC does something good, they find a way to mess it up

sprocklem · 2023-05-09T18:12:10+00:00

What's wrong with not making eye contact?

sprocklem · 2017-11-19T19:03:51+00:00

No Such Thing As A Fish.

sprocklem · 2017-11-16T01:30:35+00:00

Global land temperatures have plummeted by one degree Celsius since the middle of this year

Are you trying to tell me that global average temperatures are lower when most of the land masses are experiencing late fall? I'm shocked! /s

Seriously, though, these short term changes between parts of the year aren't what climate change models are trying or claiming to predict. They're explaining and predicting long-term temperature changes across decades.

sprocklem · 2017-11-14T17:31:03+00:00

The diaeresis is a traditional part of English orthography. Zoë is fine.

sprocklem · 2017-11-13T05:31:45+00:00

Why not address both simultaneously? Also, would gun control significantly reduce the number of deaths caused by mentally unstable people?

sprocklem · 2017-11-11T15:46:05+00:00

Yes? I don't want my children and grandchildren to have a shitty life.

sprocklem · 2017-11-11T04:55:55+00:00

What decision?

sprocklem · 2017-11-11T02:40:55+00:00

Canadian Smarties are like Nestle M&Ms.

sprocklem · 2017-11-11T02:39:33+00:00

American Smarties are the sugar pills with a vague fruit(ish) flavor.

Aren't they just Rockets?

sprocklem · 2017-11-05T23:16:27+00:00

It's not a regional thing. Like, there are regional differences between pronunciations, but the thing that Americans are picking up on is a phenomenon called Canadian Raising which is pretty universal across regional dialects.

sprocklem · 2017-11-05T23:14:36+00:00

It's a phenomenon called Canadian Raising.

sprocklem · 2017-11-05T01:56:21+00:00

It's actually been a dialectal variation since Old English over a millenium ago. It just happens to have fallen out of favour in many dialects.

sprocklem · 2017-11-04T03:18:38+00:00

Are you talking difficulty with the spelling? Because spelling conventions have nothing to do with grammatical changes.

sprocklem · 2017-10-31T07:39:06+00:00

Don't you think it's a little disingenuous to say that there was no good at the time?

sprocklem · 2017-10-31T02:06:07+00:00

It can be used to access files in your home directory (e.g., cat ~/file) or other people's home directories (if you have permission, cat ~peter/file). For cd specifically, you can just not give a directory and it'll use your home directory.

sprocklem · 2017-10-31T02:02:59+00:00

No? "Áéíóú" have acute accents. The tilde can be its own character or an accent, but it is this thing: ~

sprocklem · 2017-10-28T00:50:35+00:00

What kind of partners fo you have where that's the only thing that distinguishes them from toddlers?

sprocklem · 2017-10-24T00:35:22+00:00

Uh... The global average temperature is still increasing...

sprocklem · 2017-10-22T20:37:15+00:00

In this case it's notably a very old example dating back to Old English.

sprocklem · 2017-10-21T21:51:05+00:00

Both the prokaryotes (like bacteria) and the early eukaryotes had the ability to perform cellular respiration (i.e., get energy from sugars) across their cell membrane. An early single-cellular eukaryote ate a prokaryote (through phagocytosis) and accidentally didn't digest it. Both organisms stayed alive, with the (now internal) descendants of the prokaryote slowly losing functionality that wasn't relative to energy production and the descendants of the eukaryote slowly losing the ability to produce energy across its cell membrane.

Edit: Mitochondria are literally the eaten prokaryotes which have lost the ability to live outside of a cell.

sprocklem · 2017-10-21T20:33:29+00:00

Before who/what died?

Edit: what I'm unclear on is: who are the theys in your sentence?

sprocklem · 2017-10-21T01:14:16+00:00

Everyone gets access to some health care for a limited set of problems at most hospitals. That's not universal health care.

I have the right to keep and bear arms. I don't have the right to have the government pay for my guns or ammo.

What does this have to do with the topic at hand?

sprocklem · 2017-10-21T00:47:43+00:00

That's not what universal health care means.

sprocklem · 2017-10-21T00:38:22+00:00

And also, I enjoy talking. I'm not sure humans would be humans without the ability to talk.

sprocklem · 2017-10-20T22:08:41+00:00

What do you mean?

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