The land before time for a colonoscopy.

Meh, if you grow up in the sticks (and on a cattle farm) you become immune.

Now, 25 years after moving away from there, my GF instantly reacts to that smell. I don’t even notice it unless she tells me why she closed the car window.

Plus cow dung doesn’t smell that much at all, considering the efficient bovine digestion. Pig, on the other hand, that’s a smell I really notice.

Yeah, upon reading the post I immediately thought of an article from a long time ago whether some anime was feminist or antifeminist. It was just an average anime that didn’t even engage with the topic.
The conversation around a piece of art becomes infinitely worse once values are ascribed to it based on a (re)viewers personal ideologies and agenda.

I’m all for anticapitalist sentiment and feminism, but not every topic needs to be evaluated under them.

Ooh, a Cake reference. I approve.

I’ve always meant that Microsoft are awful at brand names, but at least they haven’t gone full circle yet.

Norway: 25 working days. And the pay is 12% of whatever you earned the previous year.

On top of that there are the public holidays. 2025 list, lazy copypasta:

1 Jan Wed New Year’s Day
17 Apr Thu Maundy Thursday
18 Apr Fri Good Friday
20 Apr Sun Easter Sunday
21 Apr Mon Easter Monday
1 May Thu Labour Day
17 May Sat Constitution Day
29 May Thu Ascension Day
8 Jun Sun Whit Sunday
9 Jun Mon Whit Monday
25 Dec Thu Christmas Day
26 Dec Fri 2nd Day of Christmas

I dropped out of school, so the best I could conjure in this situation would be <3

Yes, but it’s really cumbersome to us foreigners.

Well, I have a perverse fascination with conspiracy theories… And no, I don’t believe in them. I just like looking up their underlying claims in an effort to understand what causes people to subscribe to them.

Norway

Our royal family is mostly into sailing, I choose to believe that’s why we don’t have the same issue.

As a noggie, this resonates with me. My ideology is in line with nobody being more important from the Birthe lottery than anyone else. But my pragmatic side says that there are no pressing concerns that justify such a drastic change as abolishing the royal family.

They don’t cost that much, our regent is alright, and his heir apparent is pretty alright too. Might as well keep them around as a unifying symbol and as primary diplomats.

Plus, I have to admit that I like the concept of a lhaving an apolitical person with veto powers, in case some shithead starts something silly. I just hope said veto powers are used if needed.

Source: Met them both when I was in the army roughly 1.3 lifetimes ago.

I’m intrigued. Which country?

As an aside, I was surprised to see that when I wrote chatgpt a sentence written in an obscure (mine) norwegian dialect, peppered with slang and nonstandard contractions, chatgpt actually understood me very well. It seems LLMs are really good at checking possible root words and their origins to infer meaning when it’s not recognizing the word.

For example, I wrote “veitkji”, which is a contractions of “veit ikkji”, which is normally written “vet ikke”. However, cgpt correctly interpreted it as "some scandinavian non-standard dialect for “don’t know” "

The two main bots in my IRC bot network were named Man14 and Girl41

Good point. I’ve just gotten used to the fact that gnu-everything is required to compile gnu-anything, both gnuseful and gnuseless, but you eventually realize that you have the wrong version of gnu-something. So I stopped caring after dicking around with dependency resolutionfor far too long to make it work. Gnu is like furniture (Gnurniture) to me - it’s just there, and the less I have to think about it living in my gnuserspace, the better.

You give me too much credit. I got curious and started googling, lol.

You’re overthinking. Non-technical people don’t care aboutthe difference.

Yes, that’s pretty much the 2nd half of my comment.

Also, my understanding is that seroconversion kinetics is about how fast your body starts making antibodies, how strong the resp9nse is and how it changes over time.

I… actually agree with him on this. For Syria to become politically stable, its economy needs to improve, and it is currently in shambles.
While it remains to be seen whether the new leadership can improve the country, at least allowing foreign investments gives them a fighting chance.