Alamo has gone to absolute shit since they got bought out. It really bums me out to see my favorite chain go to “just another movie theatre”

I’m pretty sure yes, if you use ddg news there’ll be a lot of results from MSN, owned by Microsoft

It’s an easy alternative. It took me a decade to get my friends to download a second app

Hey be nice, everyone’s gotta learn something for the first time

To add to the (absolutely accurate) commentary in the rest of the thread, this hits on a something Grabber talks about in Bullshit Jobs. Almost universally, the jobs that are the most important to society actually functioning are the ones that pay the least (with the one notable exception of physicians). There’s this idea that you should be “grateful” to have such an important job, and that’s in a way almost part of your pay. See also nurses, elderly care providers, daycare employees, anyone who works for a charity. People in charge use this “moral capital” as a way to convince you to take less actual money

Yes. That’s what having a pure heart means

Genuinely this – most Ethiopian restaurants will just give you more for free

Learn latex if you haven’t already – it’s perfect for this! There’s a million tutorials out there, overleaf especially is very user friendly

Now is primary time – MANY elections have honestly decent looking people running under the Democratic ticket. Now is the time to replace the incumbents with people who give a shit

This was fun! Anyone know about the ſ character? How come in the 1600s it only sometimes seemed to take the place of s?

Some lawyers made a video explaining that if the evidence was likely to have been found in a legal search anyways, it can usually still be admitted. I also ANAL

I stopped reading once you said “colloquially ‘speakers’” I ain’t got time to deal with this today

Good chance that’s more performant though, compilers can flatten for loops and you don’t have to waste as much time creating new stack frames each time you recurse

If you’re talking about Judaism, the Torah never specifically mentions that they were building the pyramids, just that they were slaves in Egypt.

Specifically, he flipped the tables of money lenders and people selling stuff. Donating a tithe has been a part of Abrahamic religion since the Old Testament.

Please just use one question mark you’re making us all nervous

Chiming in with my own sleep paralysis tip – I can usually control my breath enough that I force myself to snore, which is usually loud enough to wake me up