but I think (hope?) it’s a net positive.

Definitely a net positive. My friend and I were discussing something similar the other day. He rides motos and I ride downhill and we both learned via youtube. What used to be restricted to people who could afford private lessons or coaching are now available to people even in third world countries. It’s opened up a lot of new horizons for people.

Any corundum without trace elements is colorless. Corundum with trace chemical impurities makes the gems we know. Chromium gives the red to rubies, sapphire has iron and titanium, you can get other colors using vanadium or different ratios. Gems are neat.

Types of corundum maybe but I think that’s a stretch. Sapphire is (usually) blue Al2O3. Ruby is red Al2O3. Transparent aluminum is Al2O27N5.

Scotty would be proud.

Wait until you hear about bicycles.

The last one should be spelled beau if you mean your special guy.

Sounds like Poland is going to have to nationalize a train manufacturer.

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CBE is an Emirati politician who the Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology of the United Arab Emirates, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), and chairman of Masdar.

Emphasis mine.

That’s the first line from his wikipedia.

Is the community going to be nice to English speaking people or are they going to pull the usual French snobbery?

If you want to really sound like a spanish speaker say it like hijueputas. In english I’d transcibe it like ee-hway-POO-tahs. It sounds way more rude like that.

This study considers me monolingual since I never learned my second language in a classroom and. I learned it as an adult. So…I guess fluency doesn’t count. Que grosero.

The delay also does not trigger just once; it is reportedly triggered every time YouTube links are opened in a new tab.

This part got me yesterday as I was listening to music. I loaded a new video in a tab and the other tab waited 5 seconds. I thought I had paused it or something but nope, every time you load a new tab it delays all the other tabs by 5 seconds.

Heat death of the pizza roll universe.

He won’t though. He’ll say something like “now is not the time for changes as we are at war”.

Here’s why I don’t want to live on mars:

Limited supply of pizza rolls.

Do they not have tag out/lock out there? Why was the robot even able to move without a laser curtain or something to shut it off if a human got too close?

As someone who has to learn the grammatical gender of nouns I feel for you. I’m constantly fucking up in my second language.

I believe the term is ethnic cleansing or genocide.

/c/risa is family.

bottleofchips figured it out? bottleofchips? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.