Where do you live? Some countries are more ethnically homogenous than others, and so your sample size may not see as much genetic variety.

At least the article clarified that the painting itself is only 26 years old, not hundreds like one might expect for a building that old.

Before anyone actually updates their resume to look better based on a meme:

Sabbatical is just a long vacation. It’s not that you stop being employed, you just take an extended leave and almost always have an agreed-upon return date.

Absolutely adorable.

It can be hard to snap a pic of the little guys, too. They’re in the habit of grabbing whatever they need out of the feeder and immediately flying away to eat it somewhere else, rather than chowing down there like most other species.

I think if they did a ground-up remake/reimagining of Arena or Daggerfall, it could still be compelling. Not a simple remaster, though.

That being said, there is apparently a Unity port of Daggerfall that appears quite decent, and goes a long way towards modernizing an otherwise ancient game.

I doubt that is the case, as there are other games with comparable content that are published on Nintendo’s store.

This is basically just a non-answer that doesn’t say much of anything at all. It could just as easily be one of the ratings organizations to blame, based on that statement, which seems likelier for the reasons others have mentioned.

I can’t be arsed to keep up with changing the config of the browser I didn’t choose every time the device updates with new admin-defined settings. That’s all.

On my personal device I still use Google right now for consistency/because change is hard, but I set the default behavior in Firefox to exclude AI results.

I’d just prefer to use/support a search engine that abstains from AI entirely, regardless of whether or not you can turn it off. I don’t want to be a happy customer of companies that still try to weasel that stuff in, because they won’t stop at a toggle. They never do.

Yeah but you can do the same with Google as well (just can’t be arsed to change the search settings on my work PC), it’s the principle of the thing.

That’d be my guess.

I have never once went out of my way to use Gemini, for example, but having it appear in every other Google search with some lying bullshit to spread is probably driving up their engagement numbers.

I really should stop using Google. But can’t use DDG either because they just use Bing and their own AI service as well, and so does Kagi.

The funny part about this is that Stuart Little is already canonically a human child. He just happens to look like a mouse.

Anyone who objects can take it up with E.B. White, I don’t make the rules.

Yes sir, I have it on good faith that this democratic senator received a bribe of emotional gratification when the Canadian delegate wished her a nice day, to which she replied “You too”, which is clearly indicative of some sort of illegal quid pro quo relationship.

I can’t speak for OP’s wife, but she may have honestly thought she felt that way about OP before realizing over time that she didn’t. It sounds like there was at least still legitimate romantic attraction, if not sexual. Processing attraction is not made any easier by how much most societies condition the concept of heteronormativity.

It sucks to find out that late, but the amicable separation is at least a better outcome than trying to prop up a loveless marriage for years and years out of guilt. Agreed that OP is entitled to feel upset, but I don’t think it’s entirely fair to put her in the position of the offender (however unintentionally) when she may likewise be feeling awful about everything.

I think you’re taking things the right way. It’s okay to feel hurt because honestly it does suck, but it is just life. Sometimes bad things happen and it’s no one’s fault.

It sounds like it would have been easier had she been more upfront, but when someone is going through an identity crisis like that, sometimes they just don’t know. Sexuality is a fickle topic with no clear dividing lines, so sometimes it just takes people a while to figure it out/deprogram/come to terms with who they are.

I certainly don’t think you’ve done anything wrong OP, nor does it sound like she did.

But it’s okay to be upset, and I don’t think you should bury that feeling just for the sake of being stoic (not to say you are, just in general). Hopefully you can still rely on each other as you work through things emotionally, and remain amicable going forward.

For some clarity for those out there only reading headlines, LA in this case is the city (Los Angeles) not the state (Louisiana).

Even now I feel like I haven’t seen any noticeable performance increase on 5G vs 4G. And yet now whenever I only have a 4G signal, I can barely get websites to load.

I used to be able to video chat with people on the other side of the planet over 4G in 2017. In 2015, I used to be able to tether my phone to my laptop and stream 4K video without issue. I have no idea what they did to make it suck so badly today.

I’m quite certain

Aww, that context gives this whole meme a lot more depth to me. I can’t entirely articulate why, but I guess it’s just nice to know that he was actually wholesome and loved.

Surprised to see so much Odyssey content in this movie (Sand Kingdom, the T-Rex from Cascade/Wooded Kingdom). I would have thought they’d be saving Odyssey for a third film, particularly since this one also appears to be eating some of Sunshine’s spotlight.

And I know that Sand Kingdom was a brief backdrop in the first movie, but there’s a difference between having it as background set dressing vs. actually going there for a protracted scene in the movie.

The urban-rural border

Who uses it to mean “somewhat”? I’ve only heard it used to mean very/indeed/enough/completely, consistently between both the US and UK.