I’m a bit confused by your post. Who is actually making the claims you’re refuting? I don’t see anyone saying anything about the invention of spreadsheets at all
Separately, I always just assumed that “Excel” was a pun on the fact that it handles cells
Only about fifteen or so. A few are bot accounts that I don’t want to see, a few sent me spam during the whole Fediverse Chick thing, and the last few are just regular people who aren’t doing anything necessarily wrong but who I just find tiresome and unpleasant in some way or another
In my defence they had not posted the replies to others when I had started typing
Rubber, including natural rubber, is a hydrocarbon polymer and should probably count as a plastic in any useful definition of the word for this context. Normally natural rubber is biodegradable, of course, but we vulcanise it for usage in tyres, and that makes it much less so. As such, tyres are a huge source of either microplastic pollution or, if you want to call it something else, functionally-identical microrubber pollution
The game that somehow managed to make random online co-op not toxic
Also you just got me to realise that Sword of the Sea is actually out literally today
17776, especially the start and end (you do not need to care about American football at all to enjoy this story)
Also, the Ukrainian constitution already forbade elections while under national emergency before the war started. Even if it was somehow possible to run a fair election while a huge chunk of the population cannot be reached with ballots, the government would have had to violate the constitution in order to hold it
The joke is just that Fabio claimed to be Apollo, and then Apollo smacked him in the face with a bird as punishment. I don’t think it’s necessarily meant to be a play on the personality of Apollo specifically, by Olympian standards he was pretty chill
This channel is so god damn good
Isn’t that like 4,000 years before the first records of coffee being prepared as a drink?
Edit: upon a little research, the tablet in the image is a version of the Instructions of Shuruppak. The oldest known copies we have, of which the depicted tablet is one, do indeed date back to around 2,600 BCE. However, the text is supposed to be the words of an ancient king given as advice to his son much earlier. In fact, the first part of the text is, “In those days, in those far remote days, in those nights, in those faraway nights, in those years, in those far remote years, at that time the wise one who knew how to speak in elaborate words lived in the Land.” The speaker is said to be the son of king Ubara-Tutu, who is mentioned on the Sumerian king list as having reigned for over 18,000 years prior to the great flood of Sumerian myth. We can’t really put any actual dates on that and have no archaeological evidence for basically anything relevant, but some archaeologists date it around some known localised flooding around 400 years earlier than the writing of this tablet
Anyway there’s nothing in there about coffee or even about the habits of The Youth These Days, but it does contain such pearls of ancient wisdom as “you make bad decisions when you are drunk” and “hurting yourself with an axe is bad actually”. There is a missing chunk that mentions beer and the god Ninkasi, herself associated with brewing and beer, so it’s possible that there was something about the flavouring of beer in that bit, but the trasnslation I’m looking at makes no mention of it
https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr561.htm
Edit again: also the original poster was joking
I’m going with “they absolutely did see it coming and are confident that they can make it go away for less money than an actual marketing campaign that gets the same amount of attention would cost”
They’ve got a veneer of plausible deniability, basically no need to expend any money on the material, and just enough of a chance to filter out anything that uses the image of someone that could actually afford to fight them in court about it
0.0003 of anything should not be measured in kilo-units
No idea about the honesty of the show, I just remember my mum being a big fan of it and always really wanting to see someone just go through the boxes in order of 1 to 22
Near-sightedness makes you more likely to notice them, but I don’t think it’s a serious sign of anything unless you’re seeing them so much that it’s a problem. They’re always there in healthy eyes, your brain just tunes them out most of the time. I would assume that changes in the way your eye focusses - either because of a change in the actual eye like the person above describes or because of a change in the prescription of glasses changing the light that enters your eye - just makes it more likely for your brain to not tune them out because they suddenly look a bit different to what your brain got used to
For some reason this comment is what made me finally realise that I haven’t seen floaters since I stopped needing glasses
I think it’s close to this, but it’s shoes. Four horseshoes for the king on his horse, two shoes on the ordinary man’s feet, and the beggar barefoot
I thknk playthroughs can make a lot of sense for some games, but it realy depends on the game. Like if it’s the Last of Us where the primary appeal is the story and there’s little in the way of plot-relevant decisions made by the player, you don’t lose much at all by not being the player. That makes sense
OP is asking why people aren’t watching playthroughs of stuff like Majora’s Mask where half the point of the whole thing is solving puzzles, though. I’m pretty sure they’d have asked me about the decision-heavy RPG I mentioned if I hadn’t pre-emptively answered
Are you familiar with the Skywind project? If the team can actually finish it, that might be just the thing you’re looking for
The Italians I’ve met would be mortified if you gave them a percolator and not a moka pot. They look similar on the outside but they are very much not the same thing