Yes. For a while, South Korean internet nicknamed him the “Gold Goblin” (after Diablo), since he was so disliked that anyone shown hitting him would receive a decent amount of money in donations.

This way when the country bursts into flames it won’t bring the rest of the world with it.

The interconnected nature of the world these days means that it would be inevitable that everyone else would be embroiled in whatever it is that happens.

That was the original intent. That it became a measuring contest is separate.

No, but the swearing is immaterial. That apology isn’t, so let’s break down the likely interpretation a bit.

I didn’t want to insult you and if you felt so, I apologize.

This is probably the most egregious part, since ‘I’m sorry you felt offended’ isn’t actually an apology, it just sounds like one. You’re not actually apologising for anything you did.

No matter what it is you might have wanted or intended, the fact of the matter is that you did offend your coworker with your swearing.

The word fuck is one I use very often, but I’ll try to control myself around you’

This part is fine-ish? I’d leave off the “around you”, since it’s extraneous. They don’t need to know that you’re deliberately taking exception around them.

I apologize. The word fuck is one I’m used to using, but I’ll try to avoid using it.

Seems a better way of putting it. You made the error, you apologised, clean and cut. No need for unnecessary explanation that could be taken as excuse, or unnecessary exceptions that may taint your intended message.

Maybe accompany it with an apology muffin or something.

Plus the military doesn’t want to show the full extent of their intelligence capabilities right off the bat. They would much rather be underestimated.

At least it’s better than ed.

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I don’t think ever. Twitter has too big of a brand name and recognition, where X does not, and they’ll keep coasting on it (their emails to you still say “formerly known as Twitter”). News sites and places will keep calling it Twitter because X is too confusing of a name, and certain parts of their reader-base will simply have no idea who it is that they’re on about, and some social media will call it Twitter because X is a silly name, and they do not respect Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter in much the same way that he does not respect his daughter’s name or identity.

Neat.

Wonder why the terminology changed. Maybe baby-board/childboard didn’t roll off the typewriter as well?

Information might also be leaked through data breaches. An email is not a particularly hard thing to find, or even guess.

A spammer could easily just have a computer iterate through all possible combinations of emails and usernames, and shotgun it.

Especially for a name like OP’s. If their email is a similar name, it wouldn’t be difficult for generate one that is also two words.

He’s probably tried to excise someone from the mortal coil/plane once or twice, does that count?

Is there a cheesy black market?

There is, like there is for olive oil, or maple syrup. Especially if it’s authentic. Olive Oil infamously has multiple fakes floating about, where it’s something else passed off as olive oil.

Plus it works a treat if your normal shoe horn is far too heavy.

It’s kind of bizarre that if I pay 7 bucks in the US for a pastry and coffee I might need to sign the receipt.

You half-expect them to pull out the old card-roller and carbon paper at that point.

No. Tap to pay only requires a PIN for large purchases ($100 or so), or if you turn on the setting to ask for a PIN for small purchases too.

I’ve only needed to enter my PIN for small purchases when inserting and using debit/EFT@POS functions.

Your LLMs are furries. That is their fursona.

But if you’re immortal, you can also think much longer term.

You can just keep working, or, if you’re the truly immortal type, where you don’t have biological needs, and are impervious to disease or injury, just sit back, since you don’t need to pay for as much as a regular human.

Although getting to that point would be quite difficult. Someone being truly immortal is so far out there and so difficult to prove that it’s much more likely to be something more mundane. Like identity theft, or a clerical error.

Front burner’s all burned out, and the replacement hasn’t arrived yet. 😔

I didn’t, actually, but thank you.

The Star Trek ones over on startrek.website. They weren’t the most active to begin with, though their activity has dropped a bit more over time.