Here’s one for you: “an apron” used to be “a napron”.

Linguists call this sort of change Rebracketing

Everybody needs one big ass flathead just to demo with. The superior wonderbar.

Stainless fasteners are niche and require stainless tools, full-stop.

Most fasteners are not stainless.

Phillips was designed to be simple to cut and self-centering, so it could be used on assembly lines. It exploded in popularity just as mass manufactured goods were becoming popular purchases.

Later styles like square, Hex (cut) fasteners, or 12-point (both types) or Torx can create higher torque without slipping but are not centering the way Phillips is.

Pozidrive > *

Not only is it self-centering like phillips and JIS (eg the reason they are used in so many line-assembled manufactured goods) but it’s has superior contact like a Robertson (square drive) or hex or torx.

Here’s one infamous example:

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158865140/stray-cats-dixfield-maine-trust-inheritance-will

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It’s not a “right now” problem for anyone with a lifetime of savings to insulate them.

Linux is domination.

Well, it was a sign of the times but, if you were kinda tan you had to have a story that explained how you definitely weren’t black.

My wife’s family is Appalachian (WV) and what I’ve distilled is that anyone who could tan at all (ie not completely ghostly Scotch-Irish) was told “well that must be indian blood in you!”

And then later they tell their grandkids “Your uncle roy was part-cherokee!”

Then those kids grow up and tell their kids, “Your great uncle Roy’s grandma was Tenskwatawa’s sister!”

It’s all just a bad game of telephone with foggy memories and no real fact-checking.

Boomers will control their wealth well past their deaths using zombie trusts.

I expect no more from “the me generation”

Apostasy is taken extremely seriously in Islam.

Removing her hijab is seen as a declaration of apostasy.

It’s turned normal people into unacceptable drooling trash.

They always were. Social media just gave them a platform to you.

Have you heard of bookmarks?

Firebird for me.

Please don’t ruin your car over a $30 part.

The thing is, it’s only a $10 part at walmart.

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You just do it like 3 weeks later. They’ll have no idea.

If you’re making a switch to linux, that means you have hardware compatible with linux–thats a given.

Flip the script: Is it ever a windows problem that windows won’t install on a RaspberryPi?