Not generally a fan of the moth memes, but damn this one is good.

(US) They vary wildly even in the same city. A lot of times, smaller dive bars will just be “[Name]'s Bar” or “[Name’s] Bar 2” if they have more than one. Reason for the numbering, as was explained to me, is that allows them to operate under the same liquor license.

Then you get the punny named ones like “The Pour House” or “Keglers”. Some are based on a gimmick like “The Fish Bowl” where you could order a giant glass fish bowl full of beer.

In college towns, they’re often clubs rather than bars/pubs, so you’ll see names like “Lazy Lizard”, “Liquid Lounge”, “Shooters”, etc. The biggest and most popular one when I went to college was called “Bent Willey’s”. Sex pun aside, it was on a sharp curve near Willey St, which is probably how they got it approved.

I’ve had a monochrome Brother laser printer for about 14 years now. Still using the original toner that came with it, though it’s down to about 20% or so. Prints every time I need it which isn’t very often, but when I need to print something, I actually need to print it.

Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing

That’s pretty much OpenAI’s modus operandi, is it not? Like, they’ve stolen from everyone else on the planet, why did Apple think they were special? It’s like they invited the Hamburgler to their BBQ and are shocked when all the sliders disappear.

Ceasefire deals be like:

Yes, it’s exactly what we’re seeing. In their minds, WVU (and other higher education instutitions) is teaching progressive propaganda, and this is how they react to that imagined injustice.

House Bill 3297 mandated that WVU operate the Washington Center focused on teaching constitutional studies and “great debates of Western civilization.” … As of June 22, one student was enrolled

Coming Soon (probably): HB 3298 mandating that as required curriculum.

The state funding my goddamned tax dollars goes to Miller’s annual salary of more than $300,000.

Number 12 was my jam!

https://lemmy.today/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopAll&page=1

Is Admiral Vance referring to the cookie or Thomas Riker?

“Hey, Crabman”

“Don’t talk to me! I’m pissed off!” – Shaxs*, LD: S1E09 “Crisis Point”

*Holodeck recreation of Shaxs

I used to think I was an excellent multi-tasker, but these days I get way more done if I just stick to one thing at a time.

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To whom it may concern. I found your glove. Wait a minute…

If my NAS gets sick anytime in the near future:

I’m of a mind that link shorteners should be banned everywhere. You should never click a link unless you know exactly where it’s going. Plus, some of them have interstitial ads and/or get deleted after a period of time, so even in the best case scenarios, they’re just spraying out ads and link rot when you get down to it.

Not to mention, they’re almost always used on platforms where you can just click on the link regardless of how long and/or unwieldy it is.

The only use case for bit [dot] ly and their ilk are if you need to publish a long link in print medium (such as a newspaper public notice or something) where a full link to a specific page would be unreasonable to expect people to type into a browser by hand.

Yeah, I mentioned the list wasn’t comprehensive and was just an example of the username format they’re using.

Replying to your other comments here, but good deeper dive. The abridged whois was sufficient to confirm pretty much all I needed to confirm (that it was one of those pop-up AI plagiarism lookalike news sites) and that there was an active campaign to promote it here. Since I don’t use any other social media, I was just reporting the ones flooding the Threadiverse but definitely seems they’re flooding all the social media zones. I can’t do anything about those, but figured I’d throw out a warning here.