You do have a point, though in terms of common everyday language, that’s a bit disappointing.

Alternate question…

What the fuck is a ‘battleground’ state, and why does the media even have the nerve to use that term? I mean I know what it basically means, they should stick with ‘swing’ state, instead of putting the word ‘battle’ into nutjob’s heads just before an election.

I don’t care what people’s political opinions are, but we already have enough gun nuts out there, and at least a couple attempts on the former president’s life.

You can’t even feel safe sending your kids to school in numerous areas, and can’t even always feel safe in a Walmart these days.

Are you sure we’re not already in a civil war?

Disclaimer: Not an expert.

Thoughts: I think this would largely depend on multiple factors, such as the overall composition of the planet, a hypothetically almost perfectly spherical core underneath the water, and not having a moon to shift the water tides around.

And even then, solar gravitational tides are a thing, so the water would most likely still move. Also, I’m pretty sure there’s no perfectly spherical planet, so I assume there would still be some sort of underwater erosion going on.

All speculation though.

Not for me, but then again I have residual nerve damage in my pinky fingers from a case of meningitis back in 2004.

However, I do still use my left pinky for the left shift key, and my right pinky for the enter key. At least those keys are big enough that the mild numbness doesn’t cause me to miss those keys.

Windows 8

And a yacht, right? Can’t forget the yacht…

LOL, I dunno. When I first checked, there wasn’t even a Subscribe button 🤷‍♂️

Subscribed now 👍

Yay! Guess I can’t subscribe just yet until you finish arranging the community, but I’ll gladly subscribe 👍

Let’s not be silly, that’s where Ms. Piggy came from, obviously…

I saved your comment to respond later once I got my words together.

I really appreciate your comment, seriously. But I never thought of it as a hobby, I thought of it as an obligation, to understand time, as best as possible anyways.

At age 9, I had just recently gotten my first glasses. I was left home alone for like a half hour, and I just stared at their analog clock. After 5 minutes, counting the ticks and watching the dials, I just understood it. Never even had to ask an adult.

I always thought of it as an obligation of education that I somehow missed before I got glasses.

I never once thought of it as a hobby before you described it that way.

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It probably only costs like $10 to get a measured line professionally tattooed on your leg/thigh for reference.

355/113

Close enough right?

Gradually decaying…

Also, a 1 meter pendulum swings at a rate of once per second. Handy info to know if all the clocks shut down, like in a survivalist situation or natural disaster.

Check my username. I’ve been partly obsessed with keeping accurate track of time since I learned to read an analog clock at age 9.

By age 12, I started learning the exact times of the school bells. By age 15, I learned how to rebuild digital watches, and even replace the quartz crystal with a more accurate one.

By age 17 I was rebuilding mechanical self-winding wristwatches, and also learning to overclock computers.

Edit: For extra clarity, I also now know how to tune the firing order on an ICE engine, no matter how many cylinders. I also know how to time a VCR and tune a guitar.

I’m 42 years old now.

There’s not gonna be a proper answer that applies to everyone. For myself, riding BMX flatland, riding unicycles, carving wood, learning survival skills, keeping time…

Happy day! The Internet Archive is back online!

https://rss.ponder.cat/post/41946

If/when the Archive does come back up, the short link is…

https://tinyurl.com/winflop395

It has a variety of versions as I’ve already mentioned, the 95 part of the link refers to the one with a taskbar and start menu.

I do hope the archive comes back up soon.

Edit: And yes, it does have the Y2K patches and a few other critical updates.

What, you don’t do the waffle stomp?

This is a food crime from hell!