No, when Star Wars first came out in 1977 and the first home video releases (including the laserdisc transfer that was included with the 2006 DVD release as a bonus feature) it was just Star Wars.

Ha. My dad’s copy of star wars was just star wars, no episode, no hope. I’m old.

As capitalism is currently doing…

If there’s an empty napkin dispenser, that would be my assumption. But it’s been happening more often and at more places that no, they don’t even have dispensers, you need to ask for napkins.

Turtles all the way down.

Same issue with a dozenal number system…

I had one of the old fashioned distorted text ones the other day, but instead of something like “please enter the text above” it just said “are you human?” next to the text box. Naturally, I typed “yes” but that turned out to be the wrong answer.

It’s not that they “took a lot of code from the GNU project”, it’s that “Linux” is the kernel, which is just the core of the OS, by itself it’s not very useful. All the stuff around it that constitutes the rest of the operating system, like the command line and the vast majority of the commands you might run from there, are the GNU project. And I’m not even getting into desktop environments.

Lockdown is different from a drill. It’s as of I said we never had fire drills, but the school burned down a couple times.

Thisthisthis. I have kids, I’m not at all worried about them getting shot, sure it’s “possible” but it’s just so improbable that it’s not something I even think about. But holy shit, the way people drive in my neighborhood, I’ll be a nervous wreck when my kids start walking or biking to the park by themselves…

I was in high school in the early 90s, we never had active ahooter drills, we just had the occasional lockdown due to gang wars…

Eh, it’s safer now than it was 30 years ago, your odds of actually running into anyone with a gun are extremely low.

But it’s in a British accent, it automatically makes you smarter!

You joke, but it happens… I’ve had to deal with it supporting credit card processing. Once had a guy calling on a magic jack complaining that his credit card machine couldn’t connect. Once I found out he used the same magic jack for both, I had to explain that in the same way we could barely understand each other through the distortion, the credit card machine was having the same problem.

Yes.

Fetchez la vache!

when did Israel specifucally taregt civilians?

They do it often. Here’s a particularly nasty one from 2009, there are plenty more if you care to look.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2009/03/25/rain-fire/israels-unlawful-use-white-phosphorus-gaza

Hydrogen is not an energy source, it is a means of energy storage, and a pretty bad one at that.

Landlords and groceries can just raise prices to bring the cost of living up

They already can, and do. If they do it too much, people leave that area. With a UBI, there’s nothing that says you have to live in a big city, it would be easier to move to bfe, where it’s always going to be cheaper. It’s not ideal of course to uproot and leave, but it’s possible, and it’s that possibility that keeps prices somewhat under control.

We all are, hiding it doesn’t help.