HobbitFoot

Because Lemmy is nowhere near as ready for primetime as other platforms.

That’s the reason I didn’t say New England.

Yep. I’m on the blunt side and I’ve been told by some people that they thought people did something wrong based on my direct communication. I had to respond that I work in an industry where you have to be blunt to communicate what you want, so bluntness is the standard.

On the flip side, I’ve gotten frustrated by people who are far more passive in giving direction because it ends up leading to poor decisions and rework that should have been addressed because they didn’t provide clarity when asked to.

In the USA, Yankee refers to mainly northeast US, including the New York City area. Western Americans would be neutral about being called that and you might piss off some southerners.

My exposure to the term gringo has mainly been that it refers to white Americans. I don’t know if you would call a black American gringo or how they would accept it.

Sounds like something out of a horror film. Your body heat melts you into the material. Then, as heat gets distributed and you have more skin contact, you are no longer generating enough heat to keep the gallium melted.

You either suffocate as the material solidifies around your abdomen or you freeze to death as the material pulls enough heat from you to kill you.

Yeah. The only thing I’d clarify is if she is paying rent or contributing to the mortgage. Paying rent is cleaner and she isn’t paying half, but it is important to have an understanding about this in case there is a breakup or death.

That was a design decision by Steve Jobs to keep people from using them as wired mice.