I’ve been summoned as a juror twice in >20 years of eligibility. They have a number you call when the date comes to see if you actually have to appear or not; the first time, I didn’t have to go at all. The second time, I did have to appear; I sat in a waiting room with about 20 other people for an hour, then we were all told we could go home.

Overall, shitty experience.

I guess I’m suggesting that if you got kids used to using Linux, they’d be more likely to keep using Linux after graduating, on their personal computers. Nobody’s using ChromeOS for anything serious.

Imagine the technological shift we could see if they were similarly powered linux laptops vs. Chromebooks. Get kids used to linux in school and I bet we’d start seeing Windows losing much more significant market share.

I have a firstname.lastname email address, but I only use it for e.g. my son’s school or work contacts, who already know me by my real name. It’s not associated with any accounts or login info. I have an awful email address I created when I was 16 that gets used for signing up for random junk.

God, it makes the new models look so much worse when you put them next to the old ones like that.

Just wait. Those models will get ripped, and used for some scandalous things. They might even be improved in the process.

What a gentleman.

There’s no way that’s real… right?

(Are they talking about Starfox? or Animal Crossing?)

This is a fun one.

I figured it out in 3 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 3
    
https://metazooa.com/
#metazooa

Reddit had quite a few communities like that, including a few that were at war with each other.

And here I expected that link to lead to a certain highly controversial Penny Arcade comic.

It’s great because A) his parents presumably named him that knowing full well what they were doing and B) He could have chosen to go by Will, William, or Bill, but actively chose to use Willie professionally.

I can see the thumbnail from Pawb (on desktop Firefox) but I can’t see the full content without following the link, for what it’s worth.

Yeah, that’s a lot less fun to imagine. :(

The thing about US exceptionalism is, it was fed to us all throughout grade school and even before. We had to recite the pledge of allegiance every day, for fuck’s sake. It’s something that has to be unlearned now, and a lot of folks just don’t want to, or don’t care to, or don’t even realize that it was a load of bullshit. Honestly the internet is probably the only exposure to other cultures most of us have (that’s certainly true for me), so folks who aren’t active in internet spaces other than, like, Facebook and whatnot might never have talked to anyone from another country in their whole lives.

I mean, rides in boats aren’t expensive either if you don’t own the boat.

The ruined alliteration is mildly annoying to me!

Beans, bacon, booze and… blubber?

Now I’m imagining a room full of people swallowing battery after battery to test this product.

I think that would require a grasp of how brains work that we simply don’t have.

It was a joke, mate. Just like I assume OP is. Nobody’s actually doing that. :P