I have heard it used as a racial slurs once I the film True Romance (1993). It has a scene where Dennis Hopper’s character is explaining to Christopher Walken’s character (a Sicilian) how he’s “part eggplant” due to the fact that the Moors conquered Sicily in the past.

I’d link to the scene on YouTube but I don’t want to as it’s very racist.

In the UK, you can get your license revoked for speeding. You can lose your license if you’re going a lot over the speed limit. If you’re going a bit slower you can get 3 or 6 points and if you get more than 12 points you also lose your license.

It doesn’t seem to do a huge amount to discourage speeding in my experience.

If she were a celebrity would we feel the same?

I would, yes. She’s done absolutely nothing that warrants this treatment.

The only people who should have any ill will towards her are those that are directly affected by her actions. That should be the case even if she was famous before this.

To play devil’s advocate:

The Netflix equivalent of this is that the show just disappears (the Marvel shows) or you get the first seasons and not the last or even the last and not the first (at one time Prime had part of Lucifer and Netflix had the rest).

The only reason that it went from free to paid (instead of just disappearing) is that they lost the licence for streaming it under Prime Video but they didn’t lose the licence for selling it.

They’ll probably say that it’s for the environment and that you should use a reusable bag for it.

Companies are good at doing things to benefit the environment when it also benefits their bottom line.

There’s a few Ts in that comment. There are one or two people who replace “th” with that symbol in the communities that I subscribe to.

I also find it mildly infuriating.

I’ve suddenly been getting regular Windows notifications from Adobe asking me to set them as the default PDF app.

Very annoying when I use Adobe reader once a month or so to sign documents.

They spent billions of dollars to develop and train the AIs that they use. They’re not going to remove it for fucking up someone’s YouTube channel.

They wouldn’t remove it even if it caused someone’s death (which it probably has considering that they have been shown to be very bad at therapy and that people go to them for therapy).

This is the same as all the games that advertise themselves as having no ads but they do have ads for in app purchases.

For some reason they don’t consider those as being ads.

Damn if that’s the case, my paranoia is gonna go overdrive.

You can check on https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Btw, has anyone here actually got hacked? I feel like the media always overexaggerates “hacking” and its mostly people just using weak passwords (user error), not really hacking.

It’s more likely to be that they found out your login credentials, yes.

They might find a site with crappy security where they can try many usernames and passwords without getting blocked or they might actually hack the site and get the password list.

Having a strong password, not reusing passwords and enabling MFA goes a long way towards protecting against those scenarios.

So when mum calls to ask if we need milk, she’sa villain!

It’s all about levels.

It’s entirely different to have a 30 second conversation about picking up milk compared to joining a work meeting.

Especially when that work meeting is a video call that is distracting the driver (they are looking at the phone in the picture).

There are definitely those that would ban all phone calls when driving.

They were proposing that the OP buy the linked cup as it can contain more coffee than the machine can brew.

Goat’s cheese and caramelised red onion is a good topping. The goat’s cheese doesn’t replace the mozzarella though.

I’m not sure that Wensleydale would work though.

It also does it sometimes if you’re on a VPN.

It’s training itself to pass those mouse based “I’m human” checks that some sites use.

Another one that shouldn’t be allowed but is are the unlimited* plans where the * indicates that it’s not really unlimited.

They want to delete the account that they presumably set up just to try Apple TV+

Visio is similar in that the lowest plan doesn’t let you use many of the built in shapes.

You can add them yourself as images but loads of useful shapes for a network diagram, for example, are missing making it very inconvenient to use (I’m now using draw.io).

I can understand limiting certain functionality (like only having a web UI) but not making basic tasks unnecessarily difficult.

That’s not really what it’s saying.

It’s saying if they sell less power then the cost per unit of power goes up. This is how all businesses work due to economies of scale. If you sell a lot of stuff then you can sell the stuff for less money and still make more money.

If you personally use less power then that won’t increase your price per unit enough to offset the savings you made by using less power.

The two inflation calculators that I found said that a dollar in 2014 should be worth $1.33 in 2025. That’s significantly lower than the lowest price increase in this infographic.