What did the Slovakians say before tractors were invented?

Yeah, but as someone who grew up down south and has lived in the north for the majority of my life:

Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Very clear, no fucker doesn’t know what you’re talking about

Breakfast, dinner, tea

What the fuck are you playing at, skipping lunch and having a drink to compensate?

Get in the sea

Tea is important enough in this country to not use the word again, especially not for the second most important thing: dinner

Oh I’m aware we don’t have one global standards org, but generally at ISO, IETF, IEEE, ITU & IEC are all some that come to mind with some level of shared interest, however I wouldn’t say they act competitively to each other and tend to work collaboratively rather than competitively.

I suppose interestingly, to use your HDMI example, this is kind of what happens when you don’t have a central standards body handling this stuff, HDMI came from the television industry and DisplayPort came from the computing industry. There is no technical reason for both to exist, and one could have been adapted to fill the needs of both and become the one standard if it wasn’t for industry groups ultimately trying to profit (HDMI carries licensing fees and requirements, so does DP to a lesser extent).

I guess you’re right though, I probably should have thought it through a bit more before my last comment

Yeah I was going to say the same, this was created by someone with an overly basic understanding of how these things work

Natural monopolies over things like infrastructure and standards aren’t necessarily bad as long as they’re not privately owned nor profit seeking.

For instance, I can’t exactly imagine how a market of competitive standards orgs would even remotely be able to reach the consensus necessary to accomplish the goal of creating standards. It’d just be an endless XKCD 927

Ahh cheers, yeah that one is more in line with the usual style

Not sure I’ve seen that one, but this is the comic artist for The Onion, satirising the style of those right wing comics (e.g Ben Garrison) that show contrived situations with labels all over them to try and make some point badly

I think I already read about drug dealers using delivery robots in cities where they have a presence already.

As soon as one of those Boston Dynamic dog bots can be bought at the nearest hardware store with an arm on them, I would not be at all surprised to find out they were being used for crime

I’m saying this with entirely no knowledge of actually how profitable pilfering catalytic converters is

As long as that password is the one for your password manager, all good

If you mean it’s the same password you send to basically every website you visit:

It is a matter of time before your password is leaked in a data breach, if that’s not already happened.

Title text:

‘Will [ ] allow us to better understand each other and thus make war undesirable?’ is one that pops up whenever we invent a new communication medium.

I love the romance of that scene, and I do enjoy an American dinner, but I’m sorry that coffee is just dreadful

As another commenter says, it’s their custom of making drip coffee and then leaving it on a hot plate to denature all flavour remaining after the aromatics have been cooked off

Americans: how many gallons of milk do you want me to put this burnt filter coffee in?

Damn check out that Jizz drip

A lot of opticians in the UK also have audiologists

It’s been that way for as long as I can remember

Urfruit

Like some kind of… Proto… Fruit…?

That was kept in the public sector, and managed a bit better

Okay I have a new film to watch immediately

I wonder if you could fashion a mini gun kinda situation with several of these and a spindle to mount them on

I’m not sure we’re going to be able to build a loading mechanism that’ll reload the t-shirt guns quick enough

Is there anything you’d add?

There’s no such thing as perfect

Cooking is the one you can fuck up a bit and still save things

Baking? You won’t necessarily get to know that you’ve fucked up until you’re literally serving it to people

Cooking is the fun art you can enter a flow state with. Baking is the nerdy anxiety catalysing science that will make you doubt your every move.