If “mildly infuriating” is just a synonym for “annoying” then I’d say this post nails the theme perfectly.

For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway is set during this period. Just a side note.

Please tell me that you are mistaken.

If everyone should learn to read, it would not only ruin writing but thinking as well.

—some embittered philosopher probably

We are in our suffix-punk arc. We’re such word-pilled portmanteau-maxxers.

They are named after the hero who goes back in time to save Sarah Connor from the Terminator.

Also, you are too old to be picking on school children.

Same, but a year ago.

Also, Temu has tried to take all the shopping search results from Bing/DDG. So those results are trash now.

synecdoche

I didn’t like that movie.

weakness of the state in the last year (Prigo’s march, Krokus

That operation was a real ballroom blitz, I tell ya.

Broforce

Clone Drone in the Danger Zone

SpiderHeck

I’m not the person you are replying to but I do have one answer.

The Library of Congress should be tasked with maintaining a searchable index of Internet and World Wide Web sites. No ranking. Your skill at finding sites would be related to your skill with writing search queries

If you recall Altavista from the late 90s, I am thinking of something like that

Same. Mine is an upside down bell curve.

Ten ants = I’m a landlord

Ten its = I dodge bullets going backwards in time

Dark Crystal vibes.

One of the most valuable things my dad taught me was how to take good advice from an asshole.

Years and years ago at a house party, some woman from Cork and a friend of mine from Belfast were joking and they said, “Because Ulster says”, and I had no idea what they were talking about.

Thank you so much for this information.

If you still have commenting motivation, what are the top 5 differences between x86 and ARM?

Up until your post I had thought it exactly was the size of the instruction set with x86 having lots of very specific multi-step-in-a-single instruction as well as crufty instruction for backwards compatibility (like MPSADBW).

Is that like a cryocurrency?

I’m getting chills just thinking about it.

So in the OP’s original timeline there is a flexible CI pipeline tool named Adolph. Huh…

None of the answers I’ve read so far actually answer your question with basic facts.

When you invest then you are buying a tangible financial instrument: a share of a company or a treasury bill or a municipal bond and so on. There is the expectation that over time, the value of your financial instrument will increase in value but this is not guaranteed. The lack of guarantee is the risk. Some instruments are riskier than others. The level of risk does not define gambling.

When you walk into a casino and bet money on roulette, what are you buying? You are buying nothing more than a fleeting chance at winning more money. It is entertainment by thrill. There is no tangible thing that you own from gambling.

Investing is one way that companies can raise capital to expand their business. Business expansion can lead to greater employment and higher standard of living. For investing to work as an economic system there must be liquidity. Someone must be willing to buy your financial instrument later at a higher price or some town must still be collecting taxes to pay back your bond years later.

Hopefully you can see now why investing is encouraged and supported in society and gambling is either illegal or merely tolerated.