From my perspective, literally being used for emphasis does not actually change its meaning, it’s simply hyperbole.

If you complain that you’ve been “waiting for hours”, even though it’s been 45 minutes, that doesn’t change the meaning of “hours”, you’re just exaggerating.

Hyperbole is a stylistic element; style is a completely different level of language than grammar/spelling/semantics (word meanings). As another example of style, ending a sentence with a preposition is grammatically correct but stylistically not recommended.

Kiwix dumps of Wikimedia wikis, including Wikipedia, are available here: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/

You may also want to check if one of the mirrors has a copy; it might download faster.

I understand the whole “it has to get worse before it gets better” angle when some railway sections have to be closed for a complete overhaul, but I feel like there’s an infrastructure equivalent to refeeding syndrome.

When your body has to make do with little-to-no food, it restructures its metabolism to deal with that. When you suddenly increase your food intake again, it can’t deal with that and you die. Instead, food intake must be slowly ramped up.

When an infrastructure provider has little money for repairs, they tend to take their most urgent “cannot be postponed” repairs, rank them, and do the absolutely most urgent “cannot be postponed” ones first. When they suddenly receive more money, there is a tendency to abandon this ranking system because all of these repairs are urgent “cannot be postponed” repairs and they no longer need to be ranked… which leads to collapse because of course the primary, the backup and the other backup route are being repaired at the same time, all three are in need of urgent “cannot be postponed” repairs!

I think the management structures of infrastructure providers should take this into account when a budget increase comes their way.

-ulative?

I’d apologize to the viewers that the show has been so dull. I’d probably blame the writers, they obviously hired utter hacks.

should’ve tried entering Wales instead

I think the poem scans better if you use the adjective “bourgeois” (two syllables) instead of the collective noun “bourgeoisie” (three).

Fundamentally, rules regarding sex derive from biological characteristics on one hand and rules regarding social interaction on the other. The joke here is treating them like a video game, where the lead designer can decide to add or remove gameplay features if they think it will make the game better (or make them more money). Thus, this complex construct, one that society has been refining over millennia of shifting priorities while our understanding of the human mind is evolving, is reduced to the whims of one person.

Naming Jacob Batalon the “CEO of Sex” (equivalent to the lead designer role in this “sex as a video game” construct) adds another level to it, as one’s initial expectation for someone with that title is a classically handsome man, which Jacob Batalon – his other qualities notwithstanding – is most certainly not, and never claimed to be.

I can’t make you find it funny, but I hope it makes sense why some of us do…?

“Absurd! We don’t even have computers!”

One of the options to query for specific types of points of interest on OSM is the web app OpenStreetBrowser.

that’s Sir Cum Circle to you, young man!

That poor owl is constipated.

As an alternative to forcing shitdown, you may want to try laxatives.

I’m sure the lyric “shit the bed again, typical” resonated with him very strongly.

the body is round

How much mileage do you get out of yours?

it’s not fair

I’d rather not participate in a poop-related conflict

Cate Archer from No One Lives Forever

YKK?

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