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grocery store had a sale on frozen meal things

got a bunch, including a potatoes au gratin one

the potatoes one says to microwave it for _six minutes_. _six_.

so what exactly was it that made mario and zelda make the 2d->3d transition so smoothly but sonic was just an absolute trainwreck? not to mention bubsy

Well, that makes twice in as many years that we've found someone's lost debit card lying on the ground in the publix parking lot. This feels like it should not be a thing that happens more than like once, if at all

why do people have to hate each other

why can't people just be understanding and help each other or at the very least just let the people they dislike do their own thing that isn't bothering anyone

thank you for attempting to explain this, everyone who has done so. my heads hurt now and i don't know if i understand things any better or worse than i did initially but maybe we should take a break from this and re-read what people have said later

i keep seeing people talking about uk politics and "the benn bill" and "an extension" and i have no idea what is going on but i hope it isn't as bad as the stuff that' shappening over here

There are people here who know stuff about math, right? Could I ask someone to help me understand something I'm just not getting? I posted a question (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3349594/are-the-definite-and-indefinite-integrals-actually-two-different-things-where-i) on stackexchange but all that's resulted in is conversations in the comments going in circles.

i just realized that it's very likely that whoever gets the democrats' nomination for president will be the next president of the united states, pretty much no matter who that is

it is very likely the democratic party is going to do whatever they can to manipulate some awful centrist into getting that nomination because they know that whoever that is, they'll still be better than the alternative

i just hope the nomination goes to sanders or someone with similar (i.e. existent) morals

also a legendarily good poet, too. that's also a good thing to aspire to.

Aspire to be like Sappho of Lesbos: so gay you get two entire words for the concept of being gay named after you

and that that also means that technically just about every form of power generation except geothermal and nuclear fission is technically fusion power

you ever just think about how the sun is a giant nuclear explosion that just keeps exploding

the other day someone tried to tell us that the swordbreaker, as in the really weird renaissance dagger designed to entrap and control an opponent's blade, was "technically called a jitte" and got _really mad_ when we pointed out that a jitte is an entirely different weapon from an entirely different tradition and i'm still kind of just baffled by that

the SaGa series has intrigued us for a while and we've never actually played through anything beyond the ones released as final fantasy legend 1-3

suddenly feeling an urge to try to get copies of SaGa Frontier 1 and 2

these collector urges are sometimes annoying because frequently we can't afford it

maybe next payday we'll get one of them

bleeb

come to think of it are there keyboard layouts for canadian aboriginal syllabics or for the cherokee syllabary?

it's kind of weird how many languages have multiple writing systems that are mixed together in writing

all european languages inherited the idea of upper and lower case from a complicated series of interactions and now have mostly agreed on rules for what gets capitalized except German, which disagrees

though I think it was in cyrillic from the beginning, unlike the roman and greek alphabets where it, i think independently appeared twice? i don't know

and then japanese has That Whole Mess with borrowed chinese writing used for nouns and then all the Grammar is written in hiragana except when it's in katakana instead for reasons

the arabic abjad has rules about how the characters connect to others that just comes of it being a cursive script, but the forms can sometimes be extremely different from one another

but on the other hand the majority of writing systems that were not based on the roman alphabet have just a single writing system. all the brahmic scripts are used alone, not intermixed with others, and people are not generally required to know more than one in order to communicate competently in that one. as far as we're aware the canadian aboriginal syllabic writing system also only has the one form for each character, and the same goes for the Cherokee syllabary. The Han languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, and relatives) have both traditional and simplified logographs but they are not (I think?) intermixed in the same inscription. Korean just has the single set of hangul, though they historically used the same hanzi borrowed from the Han languages, which might still be used for some traditional things, I don't know

and of course the classic, the extra-medium shirt