We can do better though.

In twenty oh one.

So I skip twenty oh oh (twenty hundred?) in favor of the year two thousand

Is that why every single application will only work with some ancient version of Java?(usually 8, sometimes 1.6 or 11)

I can’t think of many cases where Java 21 is a drop in replacement, and I don’t think anyone actually used 17.

That’s exactly the reason. And also no company is going through the bother to refactor that shit, so everything is named based on some other company 5 mergers and acquisitions ago.

I mean the drones are apparently designated as “parody” so either should work

Pretty sure it has nothing to do with a “pregnant person” and is just a straight-up open rape threat.

They should also mention that most everything he says is a lie.

Try !headinthesand@lemmy.world and !lalalaicanthearyou@lemm.ee

Immigration isn’t real?

The only time I’ve been prompted to enter a PIN is when using the same card as a debit card vs a credit card.

Even though the you already have to use the PIN at an ATM.

No idea why there’s such a big functional difference between “credit” and “debit” cards.

That makes it worse! Clearly they did not get it right the first time around, or there wouldn’t be any reason to tweak and replace it all constantly.

Ah yes. Perfection:

Or maybe:

No? maybe this.

Edit I missed windows XP

No shakeups at all, it’s like a rock.

Perfectly reliable and unchanged from the beginning.

Edit since folks choose to distinguish “Settings” from “Control Panel” as if that doesn’t make the point even stronger. I’ll admit that it’s been pretty consistent since Windows 7. Still very different than the first iteration.

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That applies when there’s no sidewalk. Never heard of such a concept when it comes to sidewalks, and as I iterated it doesn’t help anyway.

It’s a very strange assumption to me that going to work and doing one’s job is “serving Allah”, let alone “fighting for Allah”

It does.

I find it doesn’t matter though which way you ride: riding on the sidewalk is unsafe.

When (US) turning right from the right lane, drivers don’t expect you to be coming from behind to the right of them at any speed.

When turning left from the left lane, drivers don’t expect you to be coming from behind to the left at any speed.

When backing out across the sidewalk, drivers don’t expect you to be to either side at any speed.

I’m seeing a pattern here, and it’s that drivers only see what they expect to see, where they expect to see it. I’ve fucked it up myself from time to time, and this leads me to the conclusion that the safest option for biking is to be where drivers are looking: in the vehicle lanes, going the same direction as other vehicles. It’s not perfect because they still aren’t expecting a bicycle, but it’s still the best choice we have.

Riding the wrong way, against traffic, on the sidewalk

Which way is “the wrong way” here? I can’t think of a time or place when I’ve seen or heard of a one-way sidewalk.

I associate that term more with archaic Christianity (Joan of Arc and other old saints spring to mind) much more than Islam.

I think the phrase hits the exact intersection of nationalism, militarism, false hero worship for people who are just doing a job, and theocracy that in combination I find deeply repulsive, no matter which specific religion it is.

It depends.

Were they killed in the line of duty? Did they make a choice that is at bare minimum well-intentioned? Or did they just happen to be there and died by bad luck?

Firefighter dies trying to save someone from a burning building? Sure, okay. Dies in a vehicle crash while responding? Maybe.

Dies by someone else’s actions and is never aware of any possibility of a choice? That’s not any sacrifice, let alone the “ultimate” sacrifice.