Why is the meme colorblind?

The timing of this probably didn’t do them any favors, doing away with standardized tests right before the effects of COVID-era “learning” (and then LLMs) began to take hold.

How many more versions of Tron do we need?

For reference, the highest state* minimum wage in the US is Washington State at $17.13 (in Seattle it’s $21.30).

*not counting Washington DC

Wage laws across the US are all over the place. Meanwhile the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.

Addendum for Japan: Yankee ヤンキー more commonly refers to a (juvenile) delinquent

Spirit and other airlines have been struggling with high oil prices that have pushed up the price of jet fuel. The company’s woes predated the war in Iran, though, as the company has struggled to increase post-pandemic demand.

Well yeah, the population that would normally fly Spirit are now unable to afford flying at all.

Do you happen to live in North America? If so I’d highly recommend checking out the Xerces society plant lists for recommended species that support local pollinators. The plant lists include timing info for suggestions on what would bloom the rest of the year, because as you mention lilacs are fairly short bloomers (might I recommend my namesake, the humble fireweed, which is a late summer bloomer?)

Star Trek? (Specifically the original series movies)

Guardians, absolutely. First was brilliant, second starts to fall to Marvel tropes, and by the third I just couldn’t wait for it to be over.

Glass Onion was disappointing?

I thought 3 was a deal better than 2. 2 was generic Hollywood schlock that dragged in the middle; 3 at least attempted some interesting things, and even bordered on artsy at times.

1 was, of course, the best. Haven’t seen 4 and 5.

Japanese speaker here, confirming the translation 👍

Obligatory “who remembers the children’s book, Dogzilla (and Kat Kong)?”

I’m curious what about this is “mildly” infuriating to OP?

I don’t care, I’m not giving up the em-dash in my own writing. Good luck reading half of my run-on sentences without it~~~

A roulette wheel of random instances is certainly a solution, but it’s not a great one, given that there are substantial differences between instances that could potentially impact a user’s fediverse experience, such as who they’re defederated from, whether they allow nsfw or downvotes, etc…

Not even interests per se, but rather qualities of the instances like:

• do you want nsfw blocked?
• do you want downvotes enabled?
• do you want more or less defederation from potentially objectionable instances?
• etc

Basically all the features that invalidate the “just pick an instance, bro, it doesn’t really matter” argument.

No, not unless the “choose an instance” problem at sign-up is resolved.

How would one go about successfully burning down a building with a sprinkler system?

To be 100% clear, this question has nothing to do with the linked news story, I was just spontaneously reminded of a plot hole I’m trying to work out in a story I’m writing (in Minecraft).

This literally just happened. How is it already compressed to early-2000s levels of jpg?