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I’d say “I wish” but the guy’s been through some s**t, so I’m not sure I’d swap my life for his.

And since I’m older, shorter and balder, I’m not sure he’d want to swap either.

Firstly, if he’s reposting using his own account, he’s not being deceptive, which he could easily be. (See: The Unidan debacle)

Second, he gets right up the chuff of right-wingers and other people who ought to know better, or at least he preaches from that platform, fake or not. Being self-aggrandising and cocky is usually the sort of thing right-wingers do, so it’s throwing it back in their faces.

And having watched some of his stuff, I think at least some of the hecklers are genuine (if not all of them). There’s one where some nut got kicked out and then lurked outside the venue waiting for him. I don’t think that was made up.

You weren’t someone who got owned at one of his shows, were you?

Spidey wears his under his clothes. So does Superman for that matter. Spidey keeps his mask in a pocket.

The tricky part is what they do with their regular clothes when they’re busy being a hero.

At least in Spider-Man’s case, the comics have shown that he spins a bag to put the clothes in and hangs it in an out-of-the-way place.

What Superman does is less clear, but he can move at impossible speeds, so he might just fold them neatly and take them home, still leaving ample time to do whatever he needs.

I hope being part of the British Commonwealth doesn’t exclude them.

Not being sarcastic.

The link, however tenuous, to Britain and our asinine degree of exceptionalism shouldn’t be a stumbling block, but I can see Europe - especially France - considering that to be a problem.

There’s an ancient UNIX copypasta that’s basically the plot of this comic, but it’s troublingly hard to find the original online.

Here’s one version I found: http://www.anvari.org/fun/Web_Tina/CREATION.html

I don’t remember “technocrat” being part of the original, but it wouldn’t be the first time my recollection has been wrong.

Literally in the blurb:

Carrying cash is too risky these days.

If you’re not getting mugged by the government, you’ll get mugged on the street instead.

Nationality is a somewhat nebulous concept.

Sometimes there is a legal definition. Sometimes there is a - often racially influenced - folk definition. There are, of course, others between and perhaps beyond these.

If any manage to exclude you, there’s your answer.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re right, of course, but some hold more weight than others.

Edits: Improvements

Prepend every cell entry that you want to be left alone with a single quote. i.e. an apostrophe, not a lone double-quote mark.

Alternatively, most word processors come with a table creator that may allow you to create something that behaves how you need. It’s been a while since I did anything quite so complex, so maybe the (un)helpful features have been ported across to those tables too.

But as at least one other comment says, those features are often autocorrect rules and they can be disabled.

There’s an old, old saying: “There is no accounting for taste.”

And it cuts both ways.

Satirists make the best politicians, but most of them aren’t brave enough to try.

So I actually had to drill down into the report itself to find this out:

The organisation releasing the report has offered suggestions and policy ideas to local (if not national) governments that ought to bring down pollution and then relied on those cites to report back the success (or otherwise) of the implementation.

That alone has my sus alarm jingling. People never lie about pollution. Just ask, I don’t know, Volkswagen, maybe.

It also doesn’t report on whether that pollution - if it actually has reduced in a particular area - has simply moved outside the monitoring area. Because I bet there’s a bit of that going on too.

Imagine, if you will, the person who is wise to the effect on a floppy disk, but uses a CD instead (Or DVD). They use it a few times but then it too stops working. Why?

Yes it can. First you pump the sea full of the most obnoxious, toxic, lethal poison, then you wait for the global food web to collapse, taking humans with it.

Climate will begin to behave within a few hundred years.

You had me concerned for a second, but “mists of time” shows up on Wiktionary (easier to be wrong), Merriam Webster’s site (likely to be right) or the Oxford English Dictionary (practically canonical), whereas “midst(s) of time” does not.

Collins Dictionary and Dictionary.com don’t list either, but the existence of the former in other places would seem to suggest that that’s the right one.

You should have seen it when the typos were still in it. Now try to figure out whether the parenthetical was there before the edits.

You like cursed?

Way back in the mists of time I got a 32MB (not a typo) upgrade for an 8MB computer. In total: 40MB.

Since I knew it ran fine with just the 8MB, I set up a RAM disk of 32MB and put the Windows swap file in it. Windows absolutely insisted (and maybe still does) that there be a swap file, so why not put that back in RAM?

It worked perfectly, but that memory was better used for other things, so the cursed setup didn’t last all that long.

Edits: Typo city baby.

Minor correction: Finland is Nordic, but not Scandinavian. It was arguably Scandinavian during the several hundred years it was occupied by Sweden, but that’s a somewhat touchy subject.

The UK’s ITV News at Ten used to have a segment called “And Finally…” at the end of the broadcast that was intended to be light-hearted (but still somewhat newsworthy) in order to soften whatever horrors might have gone before it earlier.

I haven’t watched TV news in years, but apparently they don’t do that any more.

I never said it was empathy. I said it’s the closest thing you’ll ever get to it from him.