On the flip side, the US health agencies will keep their back channels open to the WHO.

If something particularly nasty crops us they’ll have no choice other than to collaborate

South Koreans saying the blackout saved your life.

Modern day phone etiquette: it is impolite to call someone on non-urgent personal business without arranging it.

Makes sense!

Where does Debian fit

Can someone explain why global flatpaks are installed in /var/lib and not /opt or /usr/local?

Notice how he’s not ignoring government directions and moaning about it when the government isn’t captured by him?

Fantastic, Linux needs tools like this for users who need to make occasional changes and inspect systemd.

For inspiration, I would suggest you also look at LaunchControl, which is a GUI tool to administer launchd on macOS.

With the Reboot Into Selected, will this modify the next boot only without changing the default?

How about the motherboard dying before the oven does

Let’s see how the incoming regime goes. Most people seem to view him as a useful idiot and it wouldn’t be difficult for trump to bury him by ripping up contracts or regulating him into obscurity

Something something sneaking into other people’s houses is haram therefore VPN is haram?

The US seems perfectly happy with socialism … for its corporate sector

I miss the KDE 3.x crystal theme

Oh fuck! Buy travel insurance…

Then they were pulled on board, the survivors thought they’d died and landed in hell

❤️ from a 35yo

It’s not that I can’t stay up all night, it’s that I have too much on to waste half a day sleeping

This sounds like a Carmen Sandiego heist

This is so mind numbingly fucking stupid. I have linguistics training and my dickhead uncle tried to pull this one on me. He’s never tried to flex his grammar on me since.

Next time this shit happens to you, try this trick.

In the above question, the word “can” could be interpreted in one of two senses.

• One is the deontic sense, which denotes permission or approval.
• The other is the epistemic sense, which denotes capability.

As a competent English speaker, you will easily infer that vampire is using the deontic “can”.

The confusion seems to derive from the recipient’s inability to understand that modals in English grammar can possess different senses depending on context.

It is worth noting that the deontic “can” has been documented in writings for hundreds of years. It is a normal and standard element of English grammar. Case in point: the idiot trying to flex on you knows what you mean but they’re pretending they don’t.

It’s not my problem that you don’t understand basic English grammar. Maybe you should go read a few books and educate yourself.