Hi there! I’m just a guy looking for a place to be and stuff.
“This… is a warrior’s bird.”
Silicon Valley is where all the VCs are. They make a lot of their funding decisions based on whether they like hanging around with a founder or not. You’re more likely to get money out of them if you’re fun to drink beers with than if you have a great business plan.
Feel free to correct me if I’ve misunderstood your point, but are you saying that “Greece” in a historical context is not a unitary entity? But how can that be so when the very thing that creates this “unbroken line of Greekdom” you refer to is the the entire concept of a “History of Greece” that reaches back thousands of years in the first place?
If there is no unitary Greek identity that reaches back from the present to the Greeks of the past, then a history of Greece that includes the Roman conquest, the Ottomans, Byzantium, would be absurd (and shame on the Wikizens for including it in one conceptual lump as well, I guess).
You could say the same of Britain after 1066, or France after Henry VI. Or of Egypt after the merging of the kingdoms, or after the Ptolomys, etc; and yet most Egyptians would push back at the suggestion that there is no direct line from the age of pharaohs to the present day.
Being a nation with the same name, occupying at least a portion of its original geography, populated by many of the decedents of the same people – well, that grants a country some pretty big ontological leeway. Who gets to decide whether the Greeks of today share the history and are of a piece with their ancient predecessors? Well the Greeks do, presumably. I mean, that’s just the way I see it, I might be off on a wild tangent for all I know.
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“Hi Jeff, this is Terry from Paramount, and–”
“Yes.”
I guess this means I’ll need yet another, different colored wastebin just for coffee now. I mean I’ll do it if it helps, but I can only fit so many receptacles in my kitchen. Meh, I’ll just put the rest in the twins’ room.
fire everyone + break everything = the everything app
Millions of miles of complex nanowire circuitry… not one single 30 amp fuse.
“I’ve had one of my trademark changes of heart.”
LOL, Niven is a classic silver-age scifi writer, and freely admits “If something is worth selling, it’s worth selling multiple times.” I got into his Known Space stories and Star Trek at almost the same time, so I’m fine with it, but I’m not really an objective judge.
“Skynet was developed to be the command and control system for the military food delivery robots.”
Turns out it was kids who were bad for kids all along.
When dating a Trill, it’s what’s inside that counts, right?
Albatross? What flavor is it?
You could make the argument that all his previous outrageous behaviors were desperate attempts to squeeze more money out of a business he didn’t understand. But this… this is unhinged. It’s so bafflingly pointless and dumb it’s become clear that what was once a reliable dopamine delivery system could, without warning or reason, just… disappear one day. Even the people who rely on Twitter like addicts are starting to come up with exit strategies.
“The horror… the horror…”
Musk is so addicted to Twitter (or whatever they end up calling it) that he bought it to ensure he would never be banned. So it’s like he bought the restaurant, fired the staff, put shit on the menu, and none of it matters to him because he still gets to sit at his favorite table and no one can tell him to leave.
Apple’s support site has a few articles that you might find helpful. A good one to start with is “What’s it called on my Mac?” which matches Windows terminology with its comparable Mac version. Another one is “Mac tips for Windows switchers” which outlines the Mac OS way to perform common tasks. But if you poke around, you can find a bunch of interesting stuff to check out.
Partly it’s convenience, but I think the main reason is you can get cheddar and bacon flavored spray cheese.