I finished Space Chem but not Magnum Opus. I actually think it’s for the stupidest reason, that Space Chem is pretending that I’m making real molecules instead of alchemy or whatever.

For a hot second, everyone was wondering whether Starmer had miraculously grown a spine.

Is 16 minutes a long time for a walkable city? I always thought that the bar was something like 30 minutes, and 20 minutes was normal-ish.

I am a fan of city design that tries to keep total commute time, including walking and transit, under 30 minutes.

Do they actually talk? I always assumed the substitute teacher just left notes.

You don’t need to look up any etymology because the word “ringer” is plainly a noun and so it doesn’t have a past tense. I really thought the joke was so obvious that it wouldn’t need any explanation, especially when posting to a memes community that would be expecting jokes.

Right after I got my first job out of college, I sent an email like that to a coworker, and later, when I saw him in person, I mentioned the email, and he said that he saw that stuff at the top and just deleted the email without reading further.

Now, that guy was an asshole, not just for that interaction but for many others. For example, he had a doctorate, and insisted that people call him “Dr. Clark”, rather than his first name, even though nobody else did that.

But I did start writing emails much better after that. I write the subject in order to get people to decide to read the body. The first sentence of the body is what I am asking them to do. The next few sentences are the most important points, and the rest is details. I know… It’s just like they teach you to write in English classes, but it didn’t sink in until I spent a long while writing an email and it was immediately tossed in the garbage unread.

Anytime we have a power outage, it resets and I turn that damn beep off before I even change the clock because it annoys me so much.

After a power outage, my microwave absolutely refuses to do anything until I set the time. As if it’s a clock that also happens to have the ability to cook food, and not the other way around.

Many people see the word “range” inside of “ranger” and mindlessly assume that it must mean they do ranged attacks. But actually, the word ranger is originally the past tense of the word “ringer”, so they’re the guy who you temporarily brought into your party to win some bet, but then they stuck around afterwards and became a permanent member.

I realize that Gandalf was powerful, but could he have actually eaten all of the hobbits?

Pretty sure they’re referring to a Hooloovoo.