New Zealander here. A lot of the lower limits being rolled back were specifically targeting school zones. This is genuinely about children’s safety

Technically yes, but a french crepe would be unidentifiable to someone who had only seen American pancakes

Wilson from House M.D., who, after surviving cancer, decided to retire from oncology and live as a recluse on a desert island.

“WYGIWYG” - love it

Took me a while to realise they weren’t asking about the B.A.T.M.A.N networking protocol on some sort of “T??? Attached Storage” device

You literally asked a question and got answers… Seems like you found one?

Shells. Because I’m less likely to get eaten.

Seriously though. Fuck shell pasta where they all stick together

Here’s one which is actually being built: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Rail_Link

$5.5 billion (NZD) for 3.5 km

Exactly. The brain is analogous to the room, not the person in it. Try removing a chunk of a brain and see how well it can “understand”

What I like is that the products are good and that the company doesn’t engage in shitty exploitative business practices

Sniper’s dream we used to call him

First time I’ve come across the Chinese Room, but it’s pretty obviously flawed. It’s not hard to see that collectively the contents of the room may understand Chinese in both scenarios. The argument boils down to “it’s not true understanding unless some component part understands it on its own” which is rubbish - you can’t expect to still understand a language after removing part of your brain

You’re ranting for no reason. “Return to workplace” obviously doesn’t refer to workers who had to be on site the whole time

USB flash drive

I hope they’re removing free/subsidised on-street parking at the same time, otherwise this will have some negative side-effects

Also implied “you should” at the beginning

That’s more or less what I said, isn’t it?

It exists so that you know where a character will appear when you press a key on the keyboard.

It blinks because it’s hard to find a line on a page of lines.

I realise what sub we’re on, but this is pushing it…

When OP inevitably has issues, I guess we’ll have to blame it on the boogie

“TonalEnergy Tuner & Metronome” is easily the best money I have spent on an app, ever