An eligible voter who is denied voting for any reason is every bit as bad as a fraudulent vote. CMV.

She reminds me of Joffrey from GoT in that sense.

Probably coincidence? It sounds (???) like this is a pretty simple fix on Windows.

The number of times I have borked my Linux machines so they wouldn't boot is, well, greater than zero for sure. Any operating system can be bricked to the point of requiring manual intervention by software with elevated privileges.

It looks like they were super lazy and took the half life of the longest lived isotope of radium (226

approx 1600 years) minus its age (approx 100 years) to get to 1,500 years.

Then there's the pitcher plant that isn't really carnivorous, but relies on excrement...it's not so much a pitcher as a toilet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes_lowii

There are plenty of distributions without systemd

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_distributions_without_systemd

There's a certain irony in bemoaning subscription news paywalls on an article about the alternative, unsavory monetization paradigm...

Eh, I assume there are a phenomenal number of job descriptions that are just copy-pasted over. Native [language] speaker, 5+ years coding experience in [framework that's been around for 3 years], etc.

James Bond already did that one I think...

Y2K was a big deal, but it was well funded and successfully dealt with. Wikipedia:

The total cost of the work done in preparation for Y2K likely surpassed US$300 billion...

And Kelvin for really low temperatures, too. mK used a lot more than MK in many a physics lab...

It's relatively common for nice metal bikes to go the unfinished metal route...if they're made of titanium.