Google.com and YouTube.com and goo.gl. OneDrive.com and office.com and PowerPoint.com. It’s because as every company’s footprint expands they’ve proliferated domains and they’re not all subdomains of the obvious ones.

I wonder if it also overall lowers their costs, as they no longer have to pay for hundreds of .com registrations.

It’s so that you can approve .Google and only .Google .

“Well actually…” I understand that some of the large companies are leveraging it to ease filtering for customers. No one wants to block all .com, but you can opt to unblock/block all of .microsoft or .google, that would be useful.

Third or fourth hand information, so I don’t know how far along any of these companies in implementing, but… It kinda feels like they’re trying to build a centralized version a la CompuServe or Prodigy or even AOL over the internet that a company can choose to connect to.

Oh, I know. I’m not a little kid but I probably shouldn’t put them in my mouth. Honestly, I’d be more worried about my dog.

Switch cartridges also taste terrible, so simultaneously you need to put them somewhere to be sure you don’t lose them while switching cases AND you don’t want to make the mistake of finding out the hard way because you needed your hands free.

My understanding is that the most basic of funerals and associated trappings is in excess of $10k (and that was prior to the current inflationary economic situation). Final healthcare expenses are likely also a few thousand dollars - and yes, the family likely has to pay it. So the amount of unexpected expenses is probably $25k to begin with… It starts seeming less excessive, to me at least.

I - and since regretting it - rewatched the early MCU movies recently. The first time you really see Thanos mirrors the first frame, and the line immediately before he turns and smiles talks about how to invade Earth is “to court death.” Given the comic book version, I’m not sure they had the whole 50% motivation thought through yet.

I’m not sure they’ve thought it through yet, although I do like the argument elsewhere in the thread that Thanos did it to prove he was right, not to save the universe.

A clearly misremembered or misread news article when the comeback tour was announced.

Didn’t the rest of the band mostly retire when she joined?

(East) Berlin would dispute the example for Deutschland. Ampelmann is an icon.

… Bourbon??

My universe has just expanded.

JUSTIN BAILEY
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Original NES Metroid was the second game I ever beat, after Super Mario Bros. 3.

Clearly it’s a Flatypus.

… Belgian style waffle or closer to Eggo? I’d be concerned about the deep pockets of the Belgian (non-Leige) waffles. Do you add any support material or stuffing, or just eggs?

Thank you, I’m planning for next weekend with my kid. =)

People are still reading The Celestine Prophecy?

I’ve ridden those donkeys!

I had a lot of trouble finding a SIM card at the top of the hill, though.

On the plus side, they feel fictional because they’re completely made up.