100% agree with this comment. There’s plenty of toys out there that will do whatever you’re looking for without giving you the risk of a hospital visit and relatively major surgery

Read the title as “Starbucks will brick…”

I was thinking that there’s a lesson here in not buying things that are non-core to the companies operations

I love doing this, and bought a picker so that I could do it hands free. Feels satisfying and really community minded.

Insert blues brothers meme:

We’ve both kinds, we got low code and no code

It’s fine, the code is the documentation

Why the straw though, what’s wrong with lapping it up like a cat?

Now I do

Not, unfortunately

Those are the ones! It’s quite a distinctive word so must have stuck in my head!

Amazing, thank you for that. There’s so much that’s fascinating in linguistics!

Of course German has a word for it! I did some bee research a long while back and we used to stick a tiny bit of numbered card on bees to track them. That has a German word as well, something like opalithplatchen.

What kind of language has a separate word for a tiny bit of numbered card that you stick on a bee?

It’s one of the many ways I know that as a species we’re fucked

My old neighbour had one of those kebab shop bug zapper lights which she hung outside and ran all day and all night. I couldn’t sit out because the sound of insects being disassembled was too much for me to cope with.

Michael, but he prefers Mikey

Maybe this thread will be the start of something! What I liked about this challenge was the starter beak and feet, made it a little easier for those of us who are artistically challenged

Punk duck

Hmm

<Reaches for 2024 bingo card>

Sounds awesome, I love his writing.

Side note: If it could not involve any helmets like the one pictured which some lights into the eyes of the occupant that would be great! One of my constant irritations when I’m watching sci fi.

Dinosaurs existed on the other side of the galaxy!

As in, it was so long ago that Earth has done half of a great cycle since then.

Bude. Don’t go to Bude. There is nothing to see there.