Princess Bride

So dull, nothing funny, no redeeming feature

Quite likely yes

Mainly socialist with a healthy dose of libertarianism.

I personally will do what I can to help those less fortunate. I tithe to a collection of charities for example. However, I just saw an advert from government telling me to wear a seat belt and just thought “I know! leave me the hell alone”.

Plum jam

• plums
• sugar
• heat

That is all

Poco X3 pro with stock because it is a lot of phone for the money.

Bought it to install Lineageos, then never got round to it.

• LOTR (it may be 3, but let’s just call it a single movie)
• Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
• Jean de Florette
• The Matrix
• Top Gun

Honourable mentions: anything Monty Python, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Alladin, Indiana Jones (up to and including Last Crusade), any Bond film with Sean Connery, Die Hard, Rocky, Rambo: First Blood, The Passion of Christ, Cross and the Switchblade, The Godfather, Blade Runner

Trust what? Many scientists will quite justifiably have completely opposing views (do vaccines cause autism for example).

Impossible!

Even fantasy there is no reality where custard is not delicious 🤤

Everything you touch turns into a potato

I hear what you’re saying, but horizontal scaling also gives you improved reliability too, which is good for individual instances.

I for one would happily horizontally scale an instance I was running (which I am not for now) on my K8s lab. Why? Because I can and because I like it!

Not really no.

The process of “embrace, extend and extinguish” has been used multiple times to destroy FLOSS projects from the inside.

Of the top of my head:

• Kerberos
• Office formats
• XMPP

I’ve just got back from a run so my brain is not fully connected, so others can give other examples.

Meta do not want to join the party for fun. They want to join because it is the only way they can smother it.

Or the Prodigy, who relied almost entirely on samples yet made some of the most exciting music we had ever heard.

There was song from the 60s (supposedly the best music everyone tells me) called “7 little girls”. The chorus went “7 little girls sitting the back seat kissing and hugging with Fred”

Thankfully a mostly forgotten song now, but a clear example of how bloody awful pop music is not a new phenomenon.