Fuck all that. My shit will erase itself if i don’t check in. The family can eat a bag of dicks if they want my data.

If your credit card doesn’t let you do a chargeback for defective equipment then you need to get a better card provider.

TVs not working after purchase would qualify as defective in my opinion.

That’s what chargebacks are for. You don’t have to rely on shitty retailers return policy.

Then you turn around and return it. Don’t encourage that behavior by just letting it happen.

According to the international phonetic alphabet they’re the same sound.

Here is the IPA for drink: dɹɪŋk

Here is the IPA for jury: d͡ʒʊɹi

Mainly it’s noticeable for spanish speakers because the spanish D is pronounced closer to the english th or is unvoiced depending on where it is in a word.

I’ve had to train my ear because I learned to speak spanish so I notice these things with my friends who are learning english.

The one that broke my mind the other day is that the D in drink is pronounced like a J. My friend was practicing his D sounds and came up with that out of the blue.

Sit close to me vs close the door

Even the second one isn’t pronounced the same. Some accents drop the th sound in clothes which is why they can sound similar.

Having to explain to my spanish speaking friends why an english word is spelled one way but pronounced another entirely different way gave me the same experience. So many times i have to tell them: “i don’t know english is just weird.”

This is correct but also glass blocks both ends of the spectrum. Really just visible light goes through glass. You get some near IR passthrough but not much.

Also I feel like a doopler when I forget which instance I was just on.

You should have used a pic of Jean-Luc on the Stargazer since that was his first ship as captain.

You removed the post that you linked to about reading the indictment so now it’s a dead link.

Edit: All good now.

Drink water. A lot of you have headaches simply because you’re dehydrated.

It would only take between 50 and 500 people to save the human race. We had a population bottleneck event back during the Toba eruption that reduced humans to about 10,000 people and we were fine afterwards. 500 is the limit for genetic drift and 50 is the limit for severe inbreeding.

Nuance, the world is filled with it. Who’d have thought?

The saying has been corrupted. Selfridge originally meant the saying to mean customer complaints should be treated seriously so that customers do not feel cheated or deceived. Nowadays people take it to mean the customer can do no wrong and is king of all he surveys.

It’s a trick by Q. Or maybe a temporal anomaly?

US Secret Service is in charge of counterfeiting investigations, not the FBI.