Fucking hell, man, with how many very publicly visible security problems they had last year, you’d think the stakeholders would be on board with doing security for a bit.

At least for cats and dogs, part of the explanation is simply that we’ve kept and bred them as pets for a long time. Them being predators made them useful as a pet, as you could take dogs out for hunting and cats became useful when we started doing agriculture, where they could independently hunt the rodents on the fields and in our storage rooms.

Yeah, any tromboner worth their salt is able to propel a standard issue PB&J at least 1 meter up into the air. Only those in training use a chair to feed the tubas.

If you do this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/create-desktop-shortcut-website
…and then edit the created shortcut to add “–new-window” as argument, does that work?

Maybe you can even drag the shortcut onto the Windows Taskbar…?

Yeah, sometimes I even then can’t download the picture, even though I was looking at it just then, because the server can apparently tell the difference and returns an error code instead.

Oh, so LibreOffice is actually a fork of OpenOffice, meaning back in 2010, the devs copied the code from OpenOffice and have been developing it further from there. So, it’s like your parents just got upgraded to the newest edition of the office suite they were using. A lot of it should still be familiar to them.

Basically, the devs had to change the name for legal/political reasons. In all other ways, LibreOffice is the continuation of OpenOffice.

OpenOffice

Most Linux distros come with LibreOffice pre-installed. That’s what you want. OpenOffice pretty much stopped being developed in 2010 and the developers moved over to LibreOffice.

Sure, I’m just saying that’s why I imagine, they put it this way around. I do agree that it’s weird. You’d expect grandpa to be level 70, so he definitely shouldn’t be a baby dino anymore.

I am currently finding that out, too. 🙃

So far, I’ve had them in a vegetable curry and in a sort-of-East-Asian style dish (rice, chickpeas, teriyaki, sriracha, peanut sauce) and I threw them onto a toast where I had a tomato-hummus spread on there.
I feel like that generally works quite well, if your base food is already quite rich in either veggies or spices, then you can just throw chives into the mix without it poking out too much. Lots of those dishes might use leek anyways, and chives aren’t too different from that.

If we’re going by real-world evolution rules, OP is the next evolutionary stage compared to their dad, who is in turn the next stage compared to grandpa.

did you replace it, if you had no issues?

touch eyes

At first, you look at them until they notice, then you look away. The first time, they’ll probably be irritated, because for all they know, you looked at them, because their hair looks silly or whatever. Then give it some time before you look again. In some sense, you can play it like you’ve just been caught looking at them, so you don’t want to be caught again right away.

Then you repeat that a couple times and try to gauge their reaction (without directly looking at them). If they catch onto you and make an ew face, then definitely abort mission. If they smile, that’s a good sign.

Then you can try to hold the stare a little longer before looking away and again, see if they smile. Eventually, you can try keeping the eye contact for a few seconds while they smile at you and then you smile back.

At that point, it’s definitely time to talk to them. They would not keep up the smile, if they had doubts about going on a date, although it’s obviously still not a guarantee. Sometimes, they only realize that they can’t follow through when it gets serious.

But this whole spiel does communicate that you’re shy about it. If that’s not how you feel, it’s better to talk to them right away.
In general, the more time you take before doing the talk, the more serious it is, because then it’s not just a spontaneous “you’re cute, wanna go out and see if we fit”, but rather a “I’ve been observing you for the past weeks and worked out that you are my dream partner please marry me right away”. So, yeah, don’t take too long before you talk to them.

I’m pretty sure, Grok is not a company representative…

Our power companies hold the stance of no-fucking-way-lol, when it comes to restarting the reactors. It would require quite a bit in terms of repairs/inspections, and in particular hiring+training all the personell is insanely expensive. At this point, just plonk down more solar panels, wind turbines and batteries. It’s a lot more cost efficient.

A game I play has this as the quote for the Haste spell. 🙃

Apparently, you can open them in a bowl of water to make it a lot less messy.

More wild speculation:

1. Patterns make brain release happiness hormones, because it rewards itself for correctly guessing how the pattern continues. The rewards stop when the pattern is overly repetitive, because the brain recognizes that this isn’t a challenge to guess correctly. And then it also quickly becomes not worth paying attention to, because if it’s not going to change, it’s irrelevant to our continued survival and all.
2. This applies to anything where humans perceive beauty. A painting with a consistent color scheme or technique is nice, but just a blue canvas is pretty boring. A poem that rhymes is nice, but if it rhymes twice or thrice by using precisely the same device, then it doesn’t entice.

Edit history says 23:40 on the 31st of December for me. I don’t know, if that’s the correct timezone. 🙃

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Skeleton_Dance&oldid=1266503922

self.disconnect_motors();
self.disconnect_nonvital_senses();

let memory = self.neurons.dump();

while self.asleep {
    let scenario = load_real_scenario()
        .randomize_params();

    self.neurons.apply(scenario);
}

self.neurons.load(memory);

self.connect_senses();
self.connect_motors();