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ASCII is short for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. And as another commenter already pointed out, only the A for America is capitalized. It was just a joke playing on the way it’s written (and the fact that there’s the MAGA movement)

Hey why is it orange?

America great, the other things not ;)

HONK

It makes scents!

Casual sex […] has no survival value

I wonder how many people less of our species were on earth w/o casual sex. It doesn’t have survival value for one personally, though.

Another example of a false friend:

German: Bekommen (to get), English: Become (werden)

Hence a joke I often heard while learning English:

Guest: “I become a steak.”

Waiter: “Well, I do hope you won’t, but I could ask the chef, if you insist…”

I just host my own searxng instance. Bonus: I get to tweak the config to my liking.

While I’m totally with you, many people may be affected by the orange one, even if their not from the US. US politics influences a lot of places globally.

The earth’s diameter is about 12.700km. that’s 12.700.000m.

Assuming it were a perfect sphere (it isn’t, but that shold give an estimate), the distance on the surface “to the other side of the world” would be 180°/360°*pi*12.700.000m=19.949.113m - also assuming not using satellite communications.

Phone signals will either travel as electric fields in copper cables, as radio waves or as light waves in a fiber channel. All cases travel with speed of light c=299.792.458 m/s

That means, that the time to send the signal to the other end of the world takes about 19.949.113m/299.792.458 m/s = 0,0667s. Now add a few electronic components on there to refresh the signal or transfer it from one medium to another (e.g. the radio tower receiving the RF signal and sending it via fibre out). All of these add a few milliseconds - that’s in the range of 0,001s to 0,01s.

You usually start to notice that sound is delayed for movies when it’s more than 0,2s delayed - and that’s with the visual cues. While calling someone, you cannot see them which gives even more leeway. So you probably won’t really notice the delay in those calls.

Also that wallpaper…

So, what did you do?

We just refilled the blinker fluid.

Calling the garage

“Yeah, so I’ve got a strange green light on iny car… Wait, now it’s off again…
Now it’s back on…
And off…
And on…”

Sigh, and I wanted to reply with

It’s over 01000110000011001010000000000000!

Where do I file my claim for blackjack and hookers? I… need it for … mental health issues…

Is this : |:,?

I don’t know this specific brand but because of this quote in the article I assumed it’d not be automatically registered:

“If you do choose to register a Peak Design product, and it is lost or stolen, you can reach out to our customer service team and have your registration erased, so the bag is not traceable back to you.”

Why do they say “if you do choose to register” if you don’t have a choice?

I don’t think that ‘tracing’ here means something like ‘there’s a GPS tracker in every backpack’.

You could see this type of backpack in a CCTV shot. Later the police recovered a backpack - that they thought was the one on CCTV - and now need to find the owner. If it was registered at the company by the owner, they may have been able to say “oh yes, that serial number is registered to a customer. Here’s their name and address they told us when registering at $date”. If the customer never registered their bag, the only piece of information they could give out would (maybe) be something like “This bag was sent to an Amazon warehouse at $date, ask them if they know who bought these bags around $date”

Works as designed - Project description asked for a house with improved airflow and easy access to a water source

Yeah, I’m also using a local resolver. But since I had some problems using another DHCP server (which was probably a problem on my end), so I’m current setting some devices in my FRITZ!box to a fixed IP and then enter that in my DNS server. If I could just skip the second part and tell the FRITZ!Box to just resolve printserver.example.com instead of printserver.fritz.box - that’d be nice. Maybe I should do another try with a DHCP server soon.