

“Did you try erasing everything from the beginning and letting it reemerge again?”
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“Did you try erasing everything from the beginning and letting it reemerge again?”


You mean this one, right? But it looks so cute <3


I don’t remember the details, but wasn’t there a massive genetic bottleneck event in early (modern?) human prehistory?
Could be fun if it didn’t happen and we were more genetically diverse!


Most sensible answer yet (maybe not the most exciting one though ;) )
Sorry you got sick!


First on a big container ship, then on a midsize cruise ship, then on a riverboat, then on a two-person inflatable paddle boat. When I finally clung to a pool noodle, I realized it was time to get rid of the tattoo and return to the shore.


Number 5 made me rethink my life, get an anchor tattoo and turn to the sea.


Starch is the nourishing part in a lot of our staple foods (potatos, cereals etc.) and easily digestible. Cellulose is a major component of wood (and cotton and paper) and of what we call “fiber” in our food, the stuff we cannot digest.
Both starch and cellulose are long, sometimes interlinked chains of glucose molecules. The only difference is at which corner of each glucose molecule the next is attached.


Another one about cheese: The cheese blocks you can get at the super market are reasonably small-portioned food items. The moon is a celestial body revolving around the Earth at a distance of around 250,000 miles, yet both are made from the same material. Makes you think.
Whoah! There is a star constellation Berenice’s Hair*, and suddenly it’s connected to a name I know!
*just a line with an angle
Probably no use for you, but interesting nonetheless: In Bavaria, Germany, Veronika is shortened to “Vroni”, with the v pronounced as an f and with the o spoken long (so, not short like in Ronnie).


Some other German ones:
Nick for Niklas and Nick/Niko for Nikolaus
Matze for Martin
Sepp for Josef
Kathi, Katta and Kadda for Katharina and Kathrin
Alex for Alexander and Alexandra
Vicki for Viktoria
Schorsch (not spoken with an English accent) for Georg
Bert for Berthold
Basti and Sebi for Sebastian
Gabi for Gabriele
Siggi for Siegfried and Sieglinde
Uschi for Ursula
And of course English nicknames for German names, e.g. Jules for Julian, Dave for David.


To add one datapoint: I actually installed LibreOffice just now just to try it out. I went via
Format > Page Style > General [this tab was open by default] > Orientation: Landscape
If that is the correct way, then it was, IMO, hard to miss and fast to find. If it was the wrong way*, however then I’d say I find the menu labels misleading.
*I am not quite sure, because the dialogue had the Title “Page Style: Default Page Style”, so I would have expected pages in all new documents to now start out in landscape orientation, but I opened a new document, and the page was in portrait orientation. So, I think I did what I tried to do - change orientation only in the current document - in spite of that (misleading, thus proving your point?) dialogue title.


Everyone has a plan until they get stabbed in the belly by a smaller opponent.


Thank you for contributing to the critical mass o7
I joined Signal for the very few people in my contact list that use it, but I am holding out for the further establishment / gaining traction of a non-walled-garden solution before I start evangelizing Signal… So that I don’t get more people to switch, and then after a few months/years have to try to get them to switch again e.g. to a Matrix solution (and once again losing my chat history in the process).
Ah well, good to hear that at least, and never mind then.