RegalPotoo

Planes rarely reverse into mountains.

And the survival statistics have a lot to do with the amount of work that has been put into making the worst case "controlled descent into terrain" scenario exceptionally rare.

Something like

!"A line with exactly 0 or 1 characters, or a line with a sequence of 1 or 3 or more characters, repeated at least twice"!<

Syntactically valid Perl

Yeah, the machine turns off automatically at 3:15pm if I don't override it, cos otherwise that's a fast track to zero sleep

As pointed out in a Tom Scott video, "claque" itself is a loan word, but "loan word" is a claque

Yeah, I really don't get this take - from where I'm sitting, your choices are "continued support for Israel" or "continued support for Israel, also attacks on racial, sexual and religious minorities in the US, support for colonial war against Ukraine". Does anyone seriously believe that Trump is going to stand up for the rights of Arabs at the cost of political support at home?

Not voting for Harris really does seem like voting for persecution of Muslim, Arab, Trans and Gay Americans

"Doctor" is a title you become entitled to use by virtue of holding a PhD - you have the option to use it, but nothing compels you to do so if you don't want to.

Note that the reverse isn't true - representing yourself as holding a doctorate when you don't can be a fairly serious crime - if you did for the purposes of getting money from some, then it's probably some kind of fraud

Oh man that's rough, I'm sorry you've not had that. I hope you've managed to find other opportunities to spend time with family or do things that you enjoy

• Back up your data now
• Reseat the cables for the drive
• Run a self test on the drive - smartctl -t long - if it doesn't pass, then the drive is trash. If it does, then it might limp along a bit longer before catastrophically failing

Illegally smol

Society needs Mandatory Service Worker Service. Like Mandatory Military Service, except you are required to spend a year working a full time minimum wage job with no outside financial support before you turn 25

Some (usually cheaper) indicating desiccants use cobalt-based dies which are fairly toxic, but unless you are using them to keep food dry it's not a huge issue. Having them break into powder in the microwave probably isn't great though, I'd avoid breathing any of it in