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Stack several of your favourite pizzas on top of each other while they’re still piping hot, so the cheese sticks them together, frost with your preferred sauce, or leave uncoated it preferred, cut in to wedges and tuck in like you’re at a 5 year old’s birthday party.

I reckon it’d be pretty good, but very filling.

There is a cop mentality problem no matter what.

In the UK the police are firmly against being generally armed, as they understand that would raise the stakes in every confrontation, and we don’t have many guns in circulation at present. They’re no angels, but they’ve got the right idea on this at least, and they do have armed units they can call in when the situation absolutely demands it.

The situation in the US is very different though, as you say. Once you have that many guns in circulation, and a widespread mentality that accepts or even demands that, getting back to something sane is going to be a herculean task over multiple generations.

As others have said, sans-serif fonts tend to have this ambiguity, whereas serif fonts don’t. I agree it seems like rather a silly design choice, but switching fonts solves the issue. A lot of fonts also make 0 and O hard to tell apart.

If defend it I must, then defend it I shall! Oxford’s finest scholars have spent countless hours studying the usage and history of this fine language, and I’ll not have these people coming along with their sidewalks and their windshields sullying their fine works! Harumph.

These are mostly code words designed to keep those pesky foreigners confused.

Pavement comes from the latin root “pavire” meaning to tread down. Vehicles drive on the road, a word which may stem from a proto-indo-european root meaning “to ride”. If there’s one thing we like more than tea, it’s tradition, and millennia old words really scratch that itch. Besides, only crabs walk on a sidewalk, or do you lot all shuffle along like you’re trying to get through a narrow gap?

Windscreen is, again, perfectly logical when you consider that in the 14th century “screen” referred to a barrier that might be used to block draughts. If it was a good enough word 700 years ago, it’s good enough now by Jove!

I must take exception to your description of a jumper being a shirt. A jumper does not open at the front, and so cannot possibly be compared to a shirt, whose defining feature is the opening, typically finished with a placket on each side, unless it’s a tee-shirt, but it’s too chilly to wear those here, so we don’t talk about them. The garment you are referring to is, of course, a cardigan. Both the jumper and the cardigan do share the trait of being a made of a heavier material, or knitted, often by your Granny, out of heavy wool.

Oi! Knock it off bruv!

I’ll have you know that the u in colour is very important. It nake the other o sound more like a u. Furthermore, check is a perfectly good word, but you cant pay with it. For that you need a cheque, and you can’t pay with those in most places now either. You car would have a bonnet and a boot, but a lorry would only have the former. Decending in a lift is no more unexpected than doing so in an elevator, and it significantly fewer letters too.

Now, having sorted out these minor linguistic quirks, would you care for a nice cup of tea and a chat about the weather?

I’ve found Hetzner to be reasonable for VPSs and even bare metal servers, especially if you keep an eye on their auctions.

Whether you’re hosting it all at home, all on a remote server, or some combination of the two, it’s worth taking the time to first learn some form of automation tooling, so that your setup is reproducible and you know exactly how everything is set up. From the first time you have to rebuild everything due to a hardware failure trashing your server, or a careless rm -rf, you’ll be glad of it.

Ansible is a good place to start as it’s pretty straighforward to get going, and your playbook can grow with your requirements. If you’re using a lot of containers, make sure you understand docker, and maybe consider Kubenetes, especially if you want to split your workload across servers.

That attitude would probably drop you down a few places… Then you’d need a marker to update the mug.

They want to catch the least tech-literate people they can. It’s easier to hoodwink them and sell them a more expensive plan with empty buzzwords. That involves finding people away from their computer, and anyone who might help them avoid being conned, and getting them to sign a paper contract then and there.

It would be “Darth Cest” surely?

I find that a dedicated RSS reader is a much better experience, as, especially when you’ve got a lot if feeds, organising them and keeping track of what you’ve read becomes quite important. If you take your eye off of a chat based system, you’re going to have so many unread messages it’ll be hard to keep up.

He didn’t say anything about dealing with them, that’s an optional add-on.

This is one of the things I actually quite like about the threadiverse; instead of a brief surge of activity before a post sinks forever, they stay active. Discussions can go on for days, and posts of the same link get joined together (piefed does this especially well), so you can see previous discussions. I like the longevity of interactions here.

They’ve been in the freezer for an hour, they’re not just cool, they’re positively chilly.

One slice each only, obviously.