I do not know your son or your financial situation. I would say he should have a way to access the Internet by himself, but this doesn’t necessarily need to be by phone if this is a financial problem. I grew up on the Internet and think it was good for me.

I remember in my childhood I didn’t like most fish, although I do now.

Even at the time, I still liked fish sticks (those from the store, not the ones they served in restaurants for some reason), smoked salmon, and the McDonald’s Filet-o-Fish sandwich. I still like all of these things… point is, maybe start with those.

“Software for airplanes” is a broad term. If I ever get into a position to make software for airplanes, it’s probably not going to be things that can crash the plane. The entertainment system is still software for airplanes.

However, that comes with some extra requirements, such as having 85% of the partners be from Spain, a limitation that Igalia did not want.

How does that comply with EU law? Is not most discrimination between citizens of different EU member states prohibited by it?

That is the exact opposite of how you’re supposed to do things (assuming you’re on a qwerty keyboard or other keyboard where P is typed with the right hand). The reason there are two shift keys is so that you can hold down the one that is not the one you’re typing the letter with, i.e. you should be using the left shift key to type P, but the right shift key to type Q, W, E, R, etc.

“minus nine” definitely has 9 letters, not -9.

I know you didn’t mean this seriously, but it’s easy to see:

• zero has 4 letters
• one has 3 letters
• two has 3 letters
• three has 5 letters
• four has 4 letters
• five has 4 letters
• six has 3 letters
• seven has 5 letters
• eight has 5 letters
• nine has 4 letters
• ten has 3 letters
• eleven has 6 letters
• twelve has 6 letters
• after this, there are no possible candidates anymore: the next numbers are all just 3-9 (with slight spelling variations) followed by 4-letter “teen”, giving us at most 9 letters, too few to have equal value to the numbers they name
• after that there is no possible way to get to the high values of the numbers they name by combining words like “twenty” or “thirty” or “hundred” or “thousand” or “million” with the previous ones

I once heard the word “purrito” (purr + burrito) in a video, meaning a cat wrapped in a towel like a burrito. My username is the German translation of that: “schnurren” means “to purr” in German. I’m no longer sure why I chose this as a username specifically here… that just crossed my mind when registering here.

in fact it is the only number in English that has as many letters as its value

That was the fault of the people who were in power after Gorbachev…

Their authoritarian form of government which is definitely making me not want to ever visit China.

I am sure China is otherwise a wonderful country, I don’t have a negative opinion of Taiwan at all, but the PRC needs their Gorbachev to come to power and liberate them.

Very little. I know it’s a military dictatorship and that there’s been some sort of genocide going on there in recent years that people have alleged was fueled by information on Facebook. I know it used to be, and sometimes still is, called Burma, which is really just a different variation of the same name.

!superbowl@lemmy.world is already a thing, but I’ve said before and am repeating here that this is a lot less funny on a platform where “superbowl” on other instances can still be communities about the Super Bowl than on reddit where there could be only one “superbowl” subreddit

I’ve said before and I’ll repeat here again that we really ought to be denying recognition to the person behind those messages, whoever they are.

That said, I remember not long ago reading a comment that somebody had actually seen the person in those images livestream, which wouldn’t be possible if these were just photos of a person who had nothing to do with it.

In my country only the head is really visible on driver’s licenses. I think that was a light-gray polo shirt, but I am no longer 100% sure.

This blogger has previously had some interesting thoughts on the matter. For example https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/Paternalistic_Laws_Make_Very_Little_Sense but I remember some others too, though can’t easily find them now.

I have previously had the thought that maybe Pokémon and Harry Potter are the same universe.

Pokémon are just Japanese magical creatures and Japanese wizards prefer to train magical creatures instead of doing wand magic like western wizards do.

Have you looked into Matrix?

😡 probably?

Agree with the main point, though disagree that FOSS is “boycotting capitalism”, many for-profit companies contribute to FOSS and FOSS can be used by for-profit companies too, much of today’s capitalism runs on FOSS.

The point of free software is that it does not have owners, so what exactly are you “boycotting”?