Nah, you just figured out the Hero’s Journey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero’s_journey

You can apply a similar rubric to Star Wars or Harry Potter.

It’s old enough that it’s abandonware now…if you can get it to run on a modern system: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/simcopter-9zw

Not knowing any German I can’t tell the difference between this being correct or your putting down “the water sloshing noise machine” with a German accent.

This just in: Anti-DEI initiatives prevent the explicit inclusion of stdio.h

Administration officials were quoted as saying “fclose(government)”

tract. though there’s a joke in there about calling it a track when you have the runs.

Translating structured logic into spoken language is iffy. (I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself)

The code reads to match OP if stated as: “If and only if the value of ‘a’ equals 1 then set the value of ‘b’ to equal one.” Placing the conditional at the beginning of the sentence maintains the correct dependency.

If it’s chrominum that might explain the announcement that they’re killing chromeOS.

businesses still have landlines

“Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich.”

Ford stared in disbelief at the crowd who were murmuring appreciatively at this and greedily fingering the wads of leaves with which their track suits were stuffed.

“But we have also,” continued the management consultant, “run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying one ship’s peanut."

Murmurs of alarm came from the crowd. The management consultant waved them down. “So in order to obviate this problem,” he continued, “and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and. . .er, burn down all the forests. I think you’ll all agree that’s a sensible move under the circumstances."

The crowd seemed a little uncertain about this for a second or two until someone pointed out how much this would increase the value of the leaves in their pockets whereupon they let out whoops of delight and gave the management consultant a standing ovation. The accountants among them looked forward to a profitable autumn aloft and it got an appreciative round from the crowd.”

― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

I can’t seem to find The National Chicken Council’s 2024 Wing Report to view how they counted a wing. The wing of a chicken consists of 2 muscle groups which are usually divided and sold as ‘wings.’ Each chicken would (usually) have 4 such wings; meaning it’s only 362.5 million chickens. Even if they’re counting whole wings it’s only 725 million chickens. 4 billion does seem to be an exaggeration.

But you’ll have to pronounce it as Aariwona

Run for VP with crony as pres. crony resigns. Wasn’t elected as President. Loophole!

That’s crack, yo.

Some states allow counting for early/mail in/ absentee voting before election day but they all prohibit release of counting information early.

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I can absolutely see Texas looking at it the other way. “Your website can be accessed by our citizens? On you to comply with our laws.” They then spit out a bunch of criminal charges that make things rather inconvenient for some instance hosts. The US reach into international banking systems is uncomfortably long.

The real problem question is about federation. You can post to an instance from any federated instance. If an account is created in one instance and the user posts to a federated instance are both liable? You have to be able to create accounts AND post to be subject to the law. Can one instance not allow posts but host accounts for participation in other instances to skirt around the law?